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Knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus vaccine among health professionals in Acre state, western Amazon
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among health professionals from western Amazonia. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Sistema Assistencial à Saúde da Mulher e da Criança (Health Care System for Women and Children; SAS...
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Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6761845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31596339 http://dx.doi.org/10.6061/clinics/2019/e1166 |
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author | Pereira, Julio Eduardo Gomes Gomes, Jéssica Menezes de Souza Costa, Annielson dos Santos Figueiredo, Francisco Winter Adami, Fernando de Sousa Santos, Edige Felipe Sorpreso, Isabel Cristina Esposito de Abreu, Luiz Carlos |
author_facet | Pereira, Julio Eduardo Gomes Gomes, Jéssica Menezes de Souza Costa, Annielson dos Santos Figueiredo, Francisco Winter Adami, Fernando de Sousa Santos, Edige Felipe Sorpreso, Isabel Cristina Esposito de Abreu, Luiz Carlos |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among health professionals from western Amazonia. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Sistema Assistencial à Saúde da Mulher e da Criança (Health Care System for Women and Children; SASMC) in Acre, Brazil, in 2017. The participants comprised 196 health professionals. The data collection instrument contained 31 questions about HPV, its clinical repercussions for women, and the HPV vaccine. Quantitative variables were presented as medians and 95% confidence intervals (CIs), and p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. For the analyses, chi-square tests and Mann-Whitney tests were used. The collected data were analyzed using Stata®11.0. RESULTS: Of the 196 health professionals, 39.8% (n=76) were physicians and 61.2% (n=120) were other health professionals. The interviewees were mostly female (n=143, 73%, 95% CI 66.1 to 78.9%) who worked in the medical field (n=81, 41.3%, 95% CI 34.4 to 48.6%), and the median age was 38 years (95% CI 36.0 to 39.7). Physicians had increased knowledge regarding only the statement "cervical cancer is one of the main causes of cancer in women", with a proportion ratio of 0.88 (0.80; 0.97) and p<0.001. Regarding clinical knowledge of the HPV vaccine, a low proportion of correct answers was obtained for all the questions, and no significant differences were found between the groups. CONCLUSION: Acceptability and knowledge of HPV and its vaccine were similar among health professionals, with knowledge gaps in questions about the relation between smoking and cervical cancer and specific clinical knowledge. |
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spelling | pubmed-67618452019-11-13 Knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus vaccine among health professionals in Acre state, western Amazon Pereira, Julio Eduardo Gomes Gomes, Jéssica Menezes de Souza Costa, Annielson dos Santos Figueiredo, Francisco Winter Adami, Fernando de Sousa Santos, Edige Felipe Sorpreso, Isabel Cristina Esposito de Abreu, Luiz Carlos Clinics (Sao Paulo) Original Article OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine among health professionals from western Amazonia. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Sistema Assistencial à Saúde da Mulher e da Criança (Health Care System for Women and Children; SASMC) in Acre, Brazil, in 2017. The participants comprised 196 health professionals. The data collection instrument contained 31 questions about HPV, its clinical repercussions for women, and the HPV vaccine. Quantitative variables were presented as medians and 95% confidence intervals (CIs), and p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. For the analyses, chi-square tests and Mann-Whitney tests were used. The collected data were analyzed using Stata®11.0. RESULTS: Of the 196 health professionals, 39.8% (n=76) were physicians and 61.2% (n=120) were other health professionals. The interviewees were mostly female (n=143, 73%, 95% CI 66.1 to 78.9%) who worked in the medical field (n=81, 41.3%, 95% CI 34.4 to 48.6%), and the median age was 38 years (95% CI 36.0 to 39.7). Physicians had increased knowledge regarding only the statement "cervical cancer is one of the main causes of cancer in women", with a proportion ratio of 0.88 (0.80; 0.97) and p<0.001. Regarding clinical knowledge of the HPV vaccine, a low proportion of correct answers was obtained for all the questions, and no significant differences were found between the groups. CONCLUSION: Acceptability and knowledge of HPV and its vaccine were similar among health professionals, with knowledge gaps in questions about the relation between smoking and cervical cancer and specific clinical knowledge. Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo 2019-09-26 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6761845/ /pubmed/31596339 http://dx.doi.org/10.6061/clinics/2019/e1166 Text en Copyright © 2019 CLINICS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Pereira, Julio Eduardo Gomes Gomes, Jéssica Menezes de Souza Costa, Annielson dos Santos Figueiredo, Francisco Winter Adami, Fernando de Sousa Santos, Edige Felipe Sorpreso, Isabel Cristina Esposito de Abreu, Luiz Carlos Knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus vaccine among health professionals in Acre state, western Amazon |
title | Knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus vaccine among health professionals in Acre state, western Amazon |
title_full | Knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus vaccine among health professionals in Acre state, western Amazon |
title_fullStr | Knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus vaccine among health professionals in Acre state, western Amazon |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus vaccine among health professionals in Acre state, western Amazon |
title_short | Knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus vaccine among health professionals in Acre state, western Amazon |
title_sort | knowledge and acceptability of the human papillomavirus vaccine among health professionals in acre state, western amazon |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6761845/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31596339 http://dx.doi.org/10.6061/clinics/2019/e1166 |
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