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Changing attitudes in Japan toward HPV vaccination: a 5-year follow-up survey of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding their current opinions about the HPV vaccine

In Japan, the governmental recommendation for HPV vaccination was suspended in June 2013 because of media reports of so-called adverse vaccine events. The HPV vaccination rate in Japan prior to this suspension was almost 70%, but fell afterward to almost zero. To explore ways to bolster HPV vaccinat...

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Autores principales: Nagase, Yoshikazu, Ueda, Yutaka, Abe, Hazuki, Yagi, Asami, Sawada, Masaaki, Nakagawa, Satoshi, Hiramatsu, Kosuke, Egawa-Takata, Tomomi, Matsuzaki, Shinya, Kobayashi, Eiji, Kimura, Toshihiro, Kimura, Tadashi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7482756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31944155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2020.1712173
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author Nagase, Yoshikazu
Ueda, Yutaka
Abe, Hazuki
Yagi, Asami
Sawada, Masaaki
Nakagawa, Satoshi
Hiramatsu, Kosuke
Egawa-Takata, Tomomi
Matsuzaki, Shinya
Kobayashi, Eiji
Kimura, Toshihiro
Kimura, Tadashi
author_facet Nagase, Yoshikazu
Ueda, Yutaka
Abe, Hazuki
Yagi, Asami
Sawada, Masaaki
Nakagawa, Satoshi
Hiramatsu, Kosuke
Egawa-Takata, Tomomi
Matsuzaki, Shinya
Kobayashi, Eiji
Kimura, Toshihiro
Kimura, Tadashi
author_sort Nagase, Yoshikazu
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description In Japan, the governmental recommendation for HPV vaccination was suspended in June 2013 because of media reports of so-called adverse vaccine events. The HPV vaccination rate in Japan prior to this suspension was almost 70%, but fell afterward to almost zero. To explore ways to bolster HPV vaccination, between 2014 and 2019 we conducted three serial surveys of the opinions of obstetricians and gynecologists about HPV vaccination. This study aimed to discuss the changing attitudes found in this 5-year follow-up survey. In August 2014, January 2017, and June 2019, we posted questionnaires to about 570 obstetricians and gynecologists practicing in Osaka, Japan. All three surveys used the same structured and closed-ended questionnaire, including questions about their personal opinions regarding HPV vaccination. We compared our new results to those of the previous two surveys. The response rate for the latest survey was 51.1% (293/573), which was equivalent to the previous two surveys. Among the responders, 83.3% (244/293) now thought that the Japanese government should restart its HPV vaccine recommendation, and 84.6% (248/293) were already recommending HPV vaccines for teenagers in their daily care. Eleven of 30 doctors (36.7%) had their own teenage daughters vaccinated against HPV after the suspension of recommendation. The rate has maintained an increasing trend from the previous two surveys. This study indicated that the attitude of obstetricians and gynecologists in Japan toward HPV vaccination has changed positively over 5 years. The results should serve as an encouragement to resume the governmental recommendation of HPV vaccines.
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spelling pubmed-74827562020-09-16 Changing attitudes in Japan toward HPV vaccination: a 5-year follow-up survey of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding their current opinions about the HPV vaccine Nagase, Yoshikazu Ueda, Yutaka Abe, Hazuki Yagi, Asami Sawada, Masaaki Nakagawa, Satoshi Hiramatsu, Kosuke Egawa-Takata, Tomomi Matsuzaki, Shinya Kobayashi, Eiji Kimura, Toshihiro Kimura, Tadashi Hum Vaccin Immunother Research Paper In Japan, the governmental recommendation for HPV vaccination was suspended in June 2013 because of media reports of so-called adverse vaccine events. The HPV vaccination rate in Japan prior to this suspension was almost 70%, but fell afterward to almost zero. To explore ways to bolster HPV vaccination, between 2014 and 2019 we conducted three serial surveys of the opinions of obstetricians and gynecologists about HPV vaccination. This study aimed to discuss the changing attitudes found in this 5-year follow-up survey. In August 2014, January 2017, and June 2019, we posted questionnaires to about 570 obstetricians and gynecologists practicing in Osaka, Japan. All three surveys used the same structured and closed-ended questionnaire, including questions about their personal opinions regarding HPV vaccination. We compared our new results to those of the previous two surveys. The response rate for the latest survey was 51.1% (293/573), which was equivalent to the previous two surveys. Among the responders, 83.3% (244/293) now thought that the Japanese government should restart its HPV vaccine recommendation, and 84.6% (248/293) were already recommending HPV vaccines for teenagers in their daily care. Eleven of 30 doctors (36.7%) had their own teenage daughters vaccinated against HPV after the suspension of recommendation. The rate has maintained an increasing trend from the previous two surveys. This study indicated that the attitude of obstetricians and gynecologists in Japan toward HPV vaccination has changed positively over 5 years. The results should serve as an encouragement to resume the governmental recommendation of HPV vaccines. Taylor & Francis 2020-01-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7482756/ /pubmed/31944155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2020.1712173 Text en © 2020 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Nagase, Yoshikazu
Ueda, Yutaka
Abe, Hazuki
Yagi, Asami
Sawada, Masaaki
Nakagawa, Satoshi
Hiramatsu, Kosuke
Egawa-Takata, Tomomi
Matsuzaki, Shinya
Kobayashi, Eiji
Kimura, Toshihiro
Kimura, Tadashi
Changing attitudes in Japan toward HPV vaccination: a 5-year follow-up survey of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding their current opinions about the HPV vaccine
title Changing attitudes in Japan toward HPV vaccination: a 5-year follow-up survey of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding their current opinions about the HPV vaccine
title_full Changing attitudes in Japan toward HPV vaccination: a 5-year follow-up survey of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding their current opinions about the HPV vaccine
title_fullStr Changing attitudes in Japan toward HPV vaccination: a 5-year follow-up survey of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding their current opinions about the HPV vaccine
title_full_unstemmed Changing attitudes in Japan toward HPV vaccination: a 5-year follow-up survey of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding their current opinions about the HPV vaccine
title_short Changing attitudes in Japan toward HPV vaccination: a 5-year follow-up survey of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding their current opinions about the HPV vaccine
title_sort changing attitudes in japan toward hpv vaccination: a 5-year follow-up survey of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding their current opinions about the hpv vaccine
topic Research Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7482756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31944155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2020.1712173
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