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Impact of indirect education on knowledge and perception on cervical cancer and its prevention among the parents of adolescent girls: an interventional school-based study

BACKGROUND: India has almost 225 million adolescent girls and they seem to be at a disadvantage, both economically and by their lack of knowledge on human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, when compared to adolescent girls of other Asian countries. AIM: To assess the prevalence of HPV vaccination and t...

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Autores principales: Jacob, Rony Abraham, Abraham, Priya Srambical, Thomas, Feba Rachel, Navya, Vytila, Sebastian, Juny, Ravi, Mandyam Dhati, Gurumurthy, Parthasarathi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7882753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33629029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2515135521990268
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author Jacob, Rony Abraham
Abraham, Priya Srambical
Thomas, Feba Rachel
Navya, Vytila
Sebastian, Juny
Ravi, Mandyam Dhati
Gurumurthy, Parthasarathi
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Abraham, Priya Srambical
Thomas, Feba Rachel
Navya, Vytila
Sebastian, Juny
Ravi, Mandyam Dhati
Gurumurthy, Parthasarathi
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description BACKGROUND: India has almost 225 million adolescent girls and they seem to be at a disadvantage, both economically and by their lack of knowledge on human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, when compared to adolescent girls of other Asian countries. AIM: To assess the prevalence of HPV vaccination and to identify the impact of education in improving the knowledge and perception about the HPV infection and vaccination among the parents of adolescent girls. METHODOLOGY: The prospective interventional study was conducted in four schools within a South Indian City, Mysuru. The informed consent form and the questionnaire were sent home with the identified adolescent girls during the pre-interventional phase. Educational sessions were conducted for the students in their school and an education leaflet was distributed to their parents. Three weeks later, questionnaires were re-administered to the parents via the enrolled girls and their responses were collected. RESULTS: The prevalence of HPV vaccination in the study population was 4.4%. There was a statistically significant improvement in knowledge in the post-interventional phase of the study (p = 0.001), but could not identify a significant change in their perception (p = 0.479). Parents belonging to the socioeconomic class of upper middle and upper lower showed better improvement at the end of the study, with a percentage improvement of 58.93% and 48.44%, respectively. CONCLUSION: The study proved that the healt care professional can target school children to communicate effectively to their parents on the importance of HPV vaccine as the study clearly observed a positive behavioral change among the study population.
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spelling pubmed-78827532021-02-23 Impact of indirect education on knowledge and perception on cervical cancer and its prevention among the parents of adolescent girls: an interventional school-based study Jacob, Rony Abraham Abraham, Priya Srambical Thomas, Feba Rachel Navya, Vytila Sebastian, Juny Ravi, Mandyam Dhati Gurumurthy, Parthasarathi Ther Adv Vaccines Immunother Original Research BACKGROUND: India has almost 225 million adolescent girls and they seem to be at a disadvantage, both economically and by their lack of knowledge on human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, when compared to adolescent girls of other Asian countries. AIM: To assess the prevalence of HPV vaccination and to identify the impact of education in improving the knowledge and perception about the HPV infection and vaccination among the parents of adolescent girls. METHODOLOGY: The prospective interventional study was conducted in four schools within a South Indian City, Mysuru. The informed consent form and the questionnaire were sent home with the identified adolescent girls during the pre-interventional phase. Educational sessions were conducted for the students in their school and an education leaflet was distributed to their parents. Three weeks later, questionnaires were re-administered to the parents via the enrolled girls and their responses were collected. RESULTS: The prevalence of HPV vaccination in the study population was 4.4%. There was a statistically significant improvement in knowledge in the post-interventional phase of the study (p = 0.001), but could not identify a significant change in their perception (p = 0.479). Parents belonging to the socioeconomic class of upper middle and upper lower showed better improvement at the end of the study, with a percentage improvement of 58.93% and 48.44%, respectively. CONCLUSION: The study proved that the healt care professional can target school children to communicate effectively to their parents on the importance of HPV vaccine as the study clearly observed a positive behavioral change among the study population. SAGE Publications 2021-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7882753/ /pubmed/33629029 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2515135521990268 Text en © The Author(s), 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Jacob, Rony Abraham
Abraham, Priya Srambical
Thomas, Feba Rachel
Navya, Vytila
Sebastian, Juny
Ravi, Mandyam Dhati
Gurumurthy, Parthasarathi
Impact of indirect education on knowledge and perception on cervical cancer and its prevention among the parents of adolescent girls: an interventional school-based study
title Impact of indirect education on knowledge and perception on cervical cancer and its prevention among the parents of adolescent girls: an interventional school-based study
title_full Impact of indirect education on knowledge and perception on cervical cancer and its prevention among the parents of adolescent girls: an interventional school-based study
title_fullStr Impact of indirect education on knowledge and perception on cervical cancer and its prevention among the parents of adolescent girls: an interventional school-based study
title_full_unstemmed Impact of indirect education on knowledge and perception on cervical cancer and its prevention among the parents of adolescent girls: an interventional school-based study
title_short Impact of indirect education on knowledge and perception on cervical cancer and its prevention among the parents of adolescent girls: an interventional school-based study
title_sort impact of indirect education on knowledge and perception on cervical cancer and its prevention among the parents of adolescent girls: an interventional school-based study
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7882753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33629029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2515135521990268
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