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Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China

Objective: This study aimed to determine human papillomavirus (HPV)-related awareness and willingness to receive HPV vaccination among college students, in Wenzhou, and its associated factors. Methods: A cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted among college students in Wenzhou to investi...

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Autores principales: Chen, Gang, Wu, Biao, Dai, Xuchao, Zhang, Mengqi, Liu, Yupeng, Huang, Hong, Mei, Kun, Wu, Zhigang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8779512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35062671
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10010010
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author Chen, Gang
Wu, Biao
Dai, Xuchao
Zhang, Mengqi
Liu, Yupeng
Huang, Hong
Mei, Kun
Wu, Zhigang
author_facet Chen, Gang
Wu, Biao
Dai, Xuchao
Zhang, Mengqi
Liu, Yupeng
Huang, Hong
Mei, Kun
Wu, Zhigang
author_sort Chen, Gang
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description Objective: This study aimed to determine human papillomavirus (HPV)-related awareness and willingness to receive HPV vaccination among college students, in Wenzhou, and its associated factors. Methods: A cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted among college students in Wenzhou to investigate their knowledge, attitude, and factors affecting their willingness to receive HPV vaccination. Results: A total of 1035 questionnaires were collected, of which 1002 were valid (males: 374, females: 628). In total, 904 (90.2%) college students had heard of HPV, with a lower rate among males than females (85.3% vs. 93.2%, p < 0.05) and 693 (69.2%) had heard of the HPV vaccine, with a significantly lower rate among males than females (53.7% vs. 78.3%, p < 0.05). Overall awareness of HPV and HPV vaccine among males and females was moderate, with lower awareness among males. A total of 55.9% of males and 80.4% of females indicated that they would be willing to receive the HPV vaccine, a significant difference (p < 0.001). The price, safety of HPV vaccine, and lack of knowledge about HPV and HPV vaccine were the major barriers to HPV vaccination for college students. Compared to females, inadequate knowledge of HPV was the main barrier factor for HPV vaccination among male college students. Conclusions: The overall knowledge level of males is lower than that of females. For male college students, providing more knowledge about HPV infection is helpful to promote their willingness to vaccinate. It is necessary to promote HPV-related knowledge for male and female college students, respectively.
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spelling pubmed-87795122022-01-22 Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China Chen, Gang Wu, Biao Dai, Xuchao Zhang, Mengqi Liu, Yupeng Huang, Hong Mei, Kun Wu, Zhigang Vaccines (Basel) Article Objective: This study aimed to determine human papillomavirus (HPV)-related awareness and willingness to receive HPV vaccination among college students, in Wenzhou, and its associated factors. Methods: A cross-sectional epidemiological study was conducted among college students in Wenzhou to investigate their knowledge, attitude, and factors affecting their willingness to receive HPV vaccination. Results: A total of 1035 questionnaires were collected, of which 1002 were valid (males: 374, females: 628). In total, 904 (90.2%) college students had heard of HPV, with a lower rate among males than females (85.3% vs. 93.2%, p < 0.05) and 693 (69.2%) had heard of the HPV vaccine, with a significantly lower rate among males than females (53.7% vs. 78.3%, p < 0.05). Overall awareness of HPV and HPV vaccine among males and females was moderate, with lower awareness among males. A total of 55.9% of males and 80.4% of females indicated that they would be willing to receive the HPV vaccine, a significant difference (p < 0.001). The price, safety of HPV vaccine, and lack of knowledge about HPV and HPV vaccine were the major barriers to HPV vaccination for college students. Compared to females, inadequate knowledge of HPV was the main barrier factor for HPV vaccination among male college students. Conclusions: The overall knowledge level of males is lower than that of females. For male college students, providing more knowledge about HPV infection is helpful to promote their willingness to vaccinate. It is necessary to promote HPV-related knowledge for male and female college students, respectively. MDPI 2021-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8779512/ /pubmed/35062671 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10010010 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Chen, Gang
Wu, Biao
Dai, Xuchao
Zhang, Mengqi
Liu, Yupeng
Huang, Hong
Mei, Kun
Wu, Zhigang
Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China
title Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China
title_full Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China
title_fullStr Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China
title_full_unstemmed Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China
title_short Gender Differences in Knowledge and Attitude towards HPV and HPV Vaccine among College Students in Wenzhou, China
title_sort gender differences in knowledge and attitude towards hpv and hpv vaccine among college students in wenzhou, china
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8779512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35062671
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10010010
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