Attitudes Toward HPV Vaccination in Sweden: A Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While HPV vaccination uptake in Sweden is quite high, at around 80%, vaccine hesitancy remains an issue in countries throughout Europe. The latter can be related to a contemporary context of increased contestation of expert knowledge and of a large share of information on health-related issues including vaccination today being sought via the internet. Still, there is a paucity of recent research on attitudes toward the HPV vaccine in a larger sample of the population in Sweden. This survey study assesses such attitudes and any correlations between vaccine hesitancy and sociodemographic characteristics, trust in healthcare and other societal institutions, and evaluation of the reliability of different sources of information.

Methods

The validated survey ques

SUBMITTER: Wemrell M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127737 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature