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Internet Survey of Awareness and Behavior Related to HPV Vaccination in Japan

Recommendations for HPV vaccines were suspended in 2013 due to unfounded safety fears in Japan. We aimed to clarify the differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated females in their awareness, knowledge, and behaviors toward cervical cancer, HPV vaccination and sex. Questionnaires were administer...

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Autores principales: Kudo, Risa, Sekine, Masayuki, Yamaguchi, Manako, Hara, Megumi, Hanley, Sharon J. B., Ueda, Yutaka, Yagi, Asami, Adachi, Sosuke, Kurosawa, Megumi, Miyagi, Etsuko, Enomoto, Takayuki
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7910902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33503989
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9020087
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author Kudo, Risa
Sekine, Masayuki
Yamaguchi, Manako
Hara, Megumi
Hanley, Sharon J. B.
Ueda, Yutaka
Yagi, Asami
Adachi, Sosuke
Kurosawa, Megumi
Miyagi, Etsuko
Enomoto, Takayuki
author_facet Kudo, Risa
Sekine, Masayuki
Yamaguchi, Manako
Hara, Megumi
Hanley, Sharon J. B.
Ueda, Yutaka
Yagi, Asami
Adachi, Sosuke
Kurosawa, Megumi
Miyagi, Etsuko
Enomoto, Takayuki
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description Recommendations for HPV vaccines were suspended in 2013 due to unfounded safety fears in Japan. We aimed to clarify the differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated females in their awareness, knowledge, and behaviors toward cervical cancer, HPV vaccination and sex. Questionnaires were administered online to women aged 16 to 20. We conducted investigations for the following: awareness, knowledge, and actions for cervical cancer, HPV vaccination, and sexual activity, as well as items related to participants’ social background. The survey in 828 girls revealed three points. The first is that more than half of the surveyed Japanese girls had poor knowledge about cervical cancer screening, HPV, or HPV vaccines. The second is that those in the unvaccinated group had a particularly poor knowledge of the subject and tended to have higher sexual activity. The final is that only 0.5% of the girls experienced changes in awareness about sexual activity after vaccination. In conclusion, this is the first large-scale survey analyzing the association between HPV vaccination and sexual activity in Japanese girls. Not only do unvaccinated girls not benefit from vaccines, but they also tend to engage in high-risk sexual behavior, and thus it is even more important to provide information on the effectiveness of vaccines and the usefulness of cancer screening.
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spelling pubmed-79109022021-02-28 Internet Survey of Awareness and Behavior Related to HPV Vaccination in Japan Kudo, Risa Sekine, Masayuki Yamaguchi, Manako Hara, Megumi Hanley, Sharon J. B. Ueda, Yutaka Yagi, Asami Adachi, Sosuke Kurosawa, Megumi Miyagi, Etsuko Enomoto, Takayuki Vaccines (Basel) Article Recommendations for HPV vaccines were suspended in 2013 due to unfounded safety fears in Japan. We aimed to clarify the differences between vaccinated and unvaccinated females in their awareness, knowledge, and behaviors toward cervical cancer, HPV vaccination and sex. Questionnaires were administered online to women aged 16 to 20. We conducted investigations for the following: awareness, knowledge, and actions for cervical cancer, HPV vaccination, and sexual activity, as well as items related to participants’ social background. The survey in 828 girls revealed three points. The first is that more than half of the surveyed Japanese girls had poor knowledge about cervical cancer screening, HPV, or HPV vaccines. The second is that those in the unvaccinated group had a particularly poor knowledge of the subject and tended to have higher sexual activity. The final is that only 0.5% of the girls experienced changes in awareness about sexual activity after vaccination. In conclusion, this is the first large-scale survey analyzing the association between HPV vaccination and sexual activity in Japanese girls. Not only do unvaccinated girls not benefit from vaccines, but they also tend to engage in high-risk sexual behavior, and thus it is even more important to provide information on the effectiveness of vaccines and the usefulness of cancer screening. MDPI 2021-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7910902/ /pubmed/33503989 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9020087 Text en © 2021 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sekine, Masayuki
Yamaguchi, Manako
Hara, Megumi
Hanley, Sharon J. B.
Ueda, Yutaka
Yagi, Asami
Adachi, Sosuke
Kurosawa, Megumi
Miyagi, Etsuko
Enomoto, Takayuki
Internet Survey of Awareness and Behavior Related to HPV Vaccination in Japan
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title_short Internet Survey of Awareness and Behavior Related to HPV Vaccination in Japan
title_sort internet survey of awareness and behavior related to hpv vaccination in japan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7910902/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33503989
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9020087
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