Awareness and attitude towards human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among medical students in a premier medical school in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As preventing cancer with the help of a vaccine is a comparatively new concept, awareness and education about it will have important implication in the implementation of this strategy.

Materials and methods

Present explorative questionnaire based survey included 618 MBBS students for final analysis.

Results

Majority of participants (89.6%) were well aware of the preventable nature of cervical cancer. Most of them (89.2%) knew that necessary factor responsible for cervical cancer is infection with high risk HPV. Awareness regarding the availability of vaccine against cervical cancer was 75.6%. Females had a better awareness regarding availability of vaccine, target population for vaccination and about the catch up program. Overall acceptance of HPV vaccine a

SUBMITTER: Pandey D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3409219 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature