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Motives and attitudes of parents toward HPV vaccination: Results from the initial period of HPV vaccine rollout in Serbia

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most common viral infections in sexually active population worldwide, and is the main cause of cervical cancer, which is the fourth most common cancer among women. Serbia ranks third in incidence and mortality rate of cervical cancer in Europe. We c...

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Autores principales: Štrbac, Mirjana, Vuković, Vladimir, Pustahija, Tatjana, Nikolić, Nataša, Rajčević, Smiljana, Ilić, Svetlana, Dugandžija, Tihomir, Patić, Aleksandra, Ristić, Mioljub, Petrović, Vladimir
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10325070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37410715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287295
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author Štrbac, Mirjana
Vuković, Vladimir
Pustahija, Tatjana
Nikolić, Nataša
Rajčević, Smiljana
Ilić, Svetlana
Dugandžija, Tihomir
Patić, Aleksandra
Ristić, Mioljub
Petrović, Vladimir
author_facet Štrbac, Mirjana
Vuković, Vladimir
Pustahija, Tatjana
Nikolić, Nataša
Rajčević, Smiljana
Ilić, Svetlana
Dugandžija, Tihomir
Patić, Aleksandra
Ristić, Mioljub
Petrović, Vladimir
author_sort Štrbac, Mirjana
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description Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most common viral infections in sexually active population worldwide, and is the main cause of cervical cancer, which is the fourth most common cancer among women. Serbia ranks third in incidence and mortality rate of cervical cancer in Europe. We conducted a cross-sectional study considering parents’ motivation for the HPV vaccination of their children. Statistical analysis included descriptive statistics and a logistic regression model. We found that the strongest motive was “Recommendation from paediatrician” (20.2%), followed by the attitude that HPV vaccine protects against cancers in different localization (15.4%), the motive “It is better to vaccinate a child than expose them to potential risk of HPV infection” (13.3%) and “Feeling anxiety due to a possible infection and cancer in the child” (13.1%). For those parents that vaccinated their child for some other strongest motive, reasons like “Vaccine is free of charge”, “Recommendation from friends and family” and motive „My child received all obligatory vaccines, so I want to receive this one as well“, were significantly more frequently selected. In the group where paediatricians’ recommendation was not a motive for accepting the HPV vaccine, the largest percentage of parents (89.6%) selected motive “HPV vaccine protects against cancers in different localization” and the motive “It is better to vaccinate a child than expose them to potential risk of HPV infection” (78.1%). Paediatrician’s recommendation is very important for parents’ decision to vaccinate, however, other motives also influenced and had significance in making the parents’ decision to vaccinate their children against HPV. Encouraging trust in public health authorities in Serbia, highlighting the advantages of the HPV vaccine and further encouraging healthcare workers to give stronger recommendations can increase the HPV vaccine uptake. Finally, we provided the basis to create more targeted messages that will empower parents to vaccinate their children.
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spelling pubmed-103250702023-07-07 Motives and attitudes of parents toward HPV vaccination: Results from the initial period of HPV vaccine rollout in Serbia Štrbac, Mirjana Vuković, Vladimir Pustahija, Tatjana Nikolić, Nataša Rajčević, Smiljana Ilić, Svetlana Dugandžija, Tihomir Patić, Aleksandra Ristić, Mioljub Petrović, Vladimir PLoS One Research Article Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is one of the most common viral infections in sexually active population worldwide, and is the main cause of cervical cancer, which is the fourth most common cancer among women. Serbia ranks third in incidence and mortality rate of cervical cancer in Europe. We conducted a cross-sectional study considering parents’ motivation for the HPV vaccination of their children. Statistical analysis included descriptive statistics and a logistic regression model. We found that the strongest motive was “Recommendation from paediatrician” (20.2%), followed by the attitude that HPV vaccine protects against cancers in different localization (15.4%), the motive “It is better to vaccinate a child than expose them to potential risk of HPV infection” (13.3%) and “Feeling anxiety due to a possible infection and cancer in the child” (13.1%). For those parents that vaccinated their child for some other strongest motive, reasons like “Vaccine is free of charge”, “Recommendation from friends and family” and motive „My child received all obligatory vaccines, so I want to receive this one as well“, were significantly more frequently selected. In the group where paediatricians’ recommendation was not a motive for accepting the HPV vaccine, the largest percentage of parents (89.6%) selected motive “HPV vaccine protects against cancers in different localization” and the motive “It is better to vaccinate a child than expose them to potential risk of HPV infection” (78.1%). Paediatrician’s recommendation is very important for parents’ decision to vaccinate, however, other motives also influenced and had significance in making the parents’ decision to vaccinate their children against HPV. Encouraging trust in public health authorities in Serbia, highlighting the advantages of the HPV vaccine and further encouraging healthcare workers to give stronger recommendations can increase the HPV vaccine uptake. Finally, we provided the basis to create more targeted messages that will empower parents to vaccinate their children. Public Library of Science 2023-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10325070/ /pubmed/37410715 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287295 Text en © 2023 Štrbac et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Štrbac, Mirjana
Vuković, Vladimir
Pustahija, Tatjana
Nikolić, Nataša
Rajčević, Smiljana
Ilić, Svetlana
Dugandžija, Tihomir
Patić, Aleksandra
Ristić, Mioljub
Petrović, Vladimir
Motives and attitudes of parents toward HPV vaccination: Results from the initial period of HPV vaccine rollout in Serbia
title Motives and attitudes of parents toward HPV vaccination: Results from the initial period of HPV vaccine rollout in Serbia
title_full Motives and attitudes of parents toward HPV vaccination: Results from the initial period of HPV vaccine rollout in Serbia
title_fullStr Motives and attitudes of parents toward HPV vaccination: Results from the initial period of HPV vaccine rollout in Serbia
title_full_unstemmed Motives and attitudes of parents toward HPV vaccination: Results from the initial period of HPV vaccine rollout in Serbia
title_short Motives and attitudes of parents toward HPV vaccination: Results from the initial period of HPV vaccine rollout in Serbia
title_sort motives and attitudes of parents toward hpv vaccination: results from the initial period of hpv vaccine rollout in serbia
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10325070/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37410715
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287295
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