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Nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance regarding human papillomavirus vaccination in Ghana: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Nurses and midwives play important roles in educating the public on cervical cancer prevention strategies. AIM: This study sought to assess nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge of, attitudes towards, and acceptance of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in relation to their background char...

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Autores principales: Ebu, Nancy Innocentia, Abotsi-Foli, Gifty Esinam, Gakpo, Doreen Faakonam
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7789304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33407430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00530-x
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author Ebu, Nancy Innocentia
Abotsi-Foli, Gifty Esinam
Gakpo, Doreen Faakonam
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description BACKGROUND: Nurses and midwives play important roles in educating the public on cervical cancer prevention strategies. AIM: This study sought to assess nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge of, attitudes towards, and acceptance of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in relation to their background characteristics. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study using questionnaires was conducted with a convenience sample of 318 female nurses and midwives, ages 20 to 59, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. The data were summarised using frequencies, percentages, chi-square tests, and Fisher’s exact tests. RESULTS: The results indicated that 41.5% (n = 132) of the participants had high levels of knowledge about cervical cancer risk factors, and 17.6% (n = 56) of the respondents had received at least one dose of the HPV vaccine. Reasons for receiving the HPV vaccination included advice from a colleague (12.9%, n = 41) and perceived threat of cervical cancer (11.7%, n = 37). Of the 262 respondents who had not been vaccinated, 24.45% (n = 78) strongly agreed and 28.0% (n = 89) agreed with the statement that there was limited information on HPV vaccination. Also, there were statistically significant associations between age (X(2) = 23.746, p = 0.001), marital status (X(2) = 14.758, p = 0.005), completed level of education (X(2) = 21.692, p = 0.001), and duration of working at the hospital (X(2) = 8.424, p = 0.038) and acceptance of HPV vaccination. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated gaps in knowledge about cervical cancer risk factors and attitudes towards HPV vaccination, indicating the need for targeted measures to improve knowledge and attitudes. Also, measures to increase acceptance of HPV vaccination among nurses and midwives should consider their sociodemographic characteristics.
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spelling pubmed-77893042021-01-07 Nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance regarding human papillomavirus vaccination in Ghana: a cross-sectional study Ebu, Nancy Innocentia Abotsi-Foli, Gifty Esinam Gakpo, Doreen Faakonam BMC Nurs Research Article BACKGROUND: Nurses and midwives play important roles in educating the public on cervical cancer prevention strategies. AIM: This study sought to assess nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge of, attitudes towards, and acceptance of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in relation to their background characteristics. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study using questionnaires was conducted with a convenience sample of 318 female nurses and midwives, ages 20 to 59, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. The data were summarised using frequencies, percentages, chi-square tests, and Fisher’s exact tests. RESULTS: The results indicated that 41.5% (n = 132) of the participants had high levels of knowledge about cervical cancer risk factors, and 17.6% (n = 56) of the respondents had received at least one dose of the HPV vaccine. Reasons for receiving the HPV vaccination included advice from a colleague (12.9%, n = 41) and perceived threat of cervical cancer (11.7%, n = 37). Of the 262 respondents who had not been vaccinated, 24.45% (n = 78) strongly agreed and 28.0% (n = 89) agreed with the statement that there was limited information on HPV vaccination. Also, there were statistically significant associations between age (X(2) = 23.746, p = 0.001), marital status (X(2) = 14.758, p = 0.005), completed level of education (X(2) = 21.692, p = 0.001), and duration of working at the hospital (X(2) = 8.424, p = 0.038) and acceptance of HPV vaccination. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated gaps in knowledge about cervical cancer risk factors and attitudes towards HPV vaccination, indicating the need for targeted measures to improve knowledge and attitudes. Also, measures to increase acceptance of HPV vaccination among nurses and midwives should consider their sociodemographic characteristics. BioMed Central 2021-01-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7789304/ /pubmed/33407430 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00530-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ebu, Nancy Innocentia
Abotsi-Foli, Gifty Esinam
Gakpo, Doreen Faakonam
Nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance regarding human papillomavirus vaccination in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
title Nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance regarding human papillomavirus vaccination in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
title_full Nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance regarding human papillomavirus vaccination in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance regarding human papillomavirus vaccination in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance regarding human papillomavirus vaccination in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
title_short Nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance regarding human papillomavirus vaccination in Ghana: a cross-sectional study
title_sort nurses’ and midwives’ knowledge, attitudes, and acceptance regarding human papillomavirus vaccination in ghana: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7789304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33407430
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00530-x
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