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National HPV Vaccination Program in Poland—Public Awareness, Sources of Knowledge, and Willingness to Vaccinate Children against HPV

Since 1 June 2023, a nationwide HPV vaccination program was implemented in Poland. This study aimed to identify factors associated with public awareness of the national HPV vaccination program among adults in Poland and willingness to vaccinate children against HPV. This cross-sectional study was ca...

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Autores principales: Jankowski, Mateusz, Grudziąż-Sękowska, Justyna, Wrześniewska-Wal, Iwona, Tyszko, Piotr, Sękowski, Kuba, Ostrowski, Janusz, Gujski, Mariusz, Pinkas, Jarosław
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10459249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37631939
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11081371
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author Jankowski, Mateusz
Grudziąż-Sękowska, Justyna
Wrześniewska-Wal, Iwona
Tyszko, Piotr
Sękowski, Kuba
Ostrowski, Janusz
Gujski, Mariusz
Pinkas, Jarosław
author_facet Jankowski, Mateusz
Grudziąż-Sękowska, Justyna
Wrześniewska-Wal, Iwona
Tyszko, Piotr
Sękowski, Kuba
Ostrowski, Janusz
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description Since 1 June 2023, a nationwide HPV vaccination program was implemented in Poland. This study aimed to identify factors associated with public awareness of the national HPV vaccination program among adults in Poland and willingness to vaccinate children against HPV. This cross-sectional study was carried out between 14 and 17 July 2023 among 1056 adults in Poland. A self-prepared questionnaire was used. Among the respondents, 51.3% had heard about the free HPV vaccination program. The major source of knowledge on the national HPV vaccination program was TV (62%). Only 31.9% of respondents correctly indicated girls and boys aged 12 and 13 as the HPV-vaccination-eligible population. Willingness to vaccinate children against HPV was declared by 63.3% of respondents. Female gender (OR: 1.42; 95% CI: 1.11–1.81; p < 0.01), age 35–64 years (p < 0.05), having higher education (OR: 1.43; 95% CI: 1.11–1.84; p < 0.01), and living in cities with more than 500,000 residents (OR: 1.51; 95% CI: 1.01–2.28; p < 0.05) were significantly associated with higher odds to hear about the national HPV vaccination program. Age 50 years and over (p < 0.05), having higher education (OR: 1.43; 95% CI: 1.09–1.88; p < 0.05), living in cities with more than 500,000 residents (OR: 1.80; 95% CI: 1.14–2.83; p < 0.05), and no children under 18 in the home (OR: 1.39; 95% CI: 1.01–1.89; p < 0.05) were significantly associated with willingness to vaccinate children against HPV.
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spelling pubmed-104592492023-08-27 National HPV Vaccination Program in Poland—Public Awareness, Sources of Knowledge, and Willingness to Vaccinate Children against HPV Jankowski, Mateusz Grudziąż-Sękowska, Justyna Wrześniewska-Wal, Iwona Tyszko, Piotr Sękowski, Kuba Ostrowski, Janusz Gujski, Mariusz Pinkas, Jarosław Vaccines (Basel) Article Since 1 June 2023, a nationwide HPV vaccination program was implemented in Poland. This study aimed to identify factors associated with public awareness of the national HPV vaccination program among adults in Poland and willingness to vaccinate children against HPV. This cross-sectional study was carried out between 14 and 17 July 2023 among 1056 adults in Poland. A self-prepared questionnaire was used. Among the respondents, 51.3% had heard about the free HPV vaccination program. The major source of knowledge on the national HPV vaccination program was TV (62%). Only 31.9% of respondents correctly indicated girls and boys aged 12 and 13 as the HPV-vaccination-eligible population. Willingness to vaccinate children against HPV was declared by 63.3% of respondents. Female gender (OR: 1.42; 95% CI: 1.11–1.81; p < 0.01), age 35–64 years (p < 0.05), having higher education (OR: 1.43; 95% CI: 1.11–1.84; p < 0.01), and living in cities with more than 500,000 residents (OR: 1.51; 95% CI: 1.01–2.28; p < 0.05) were significantly associated with higher odds to hear about the national HPV vaccination program. Age 50 years and over (p < 0.05), having higher education (OR: 1.43; 95% CI: 1.09–1.88; p < 0.05), living in cities with more than 500,000 residents (OR: 1.80; 95% CI: 1.14–2.83; p < 0.05), and no children under 18 in the home (OR: 1.39; 95% CI: 1.01–1.89; p < 0.05) were significantly associated with willingness to vaccinate children against HPV. MDPI 2023-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10459249/ /pubmed/37631939 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11081371 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Gujski, Mariusz
Pinkas, Jarosław
National HPV Vaccination Program in Poland—Public Awareness, Sources of Knowledge, and Willingness to Vaccinate Children against HPV
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10459249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37631939
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11081371
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