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Awareness, attitudes and acceptability of the HPV vaccine among female university students in Morocco
BACKGROUND: In Morocco, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer affecting women behind breast cancer. The Human PapillomaVirus (HPV) vaccine has been available in Morocco since 2008 but its introduction in the national immunization program is still under discussion. There is limited data re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8993020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35395019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266081 |
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author | Yacouti, A. Elkhoudri, N. El got, A. Benider, A. Hadrya, F. Baddou, R. Forster, A. Mouallif, M. |
author_facet | Yacouti, A. Elkhoudri, N. El got, A. Benider, A. Hadrya, F. Baddou, R. Forster, A. Mouallif, M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: In Morocco, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer affecting women behind breast cancer. The Human PapillomaVirus (HPV) vaccine has been available in Morocco since 2008 but its introduction in the national immunization program is still under discussion. There is limited data regarding acceptability and predictors of HPV vaccine acceptability among Moroccan young women. This study aimed to evaluate the awareness of female university students of HPV and the vaccine and to identify predictors of HPV vaccine acceptability. METHODS: We conducted a structured interviewer-administered questionnaire with 1087 participants in six Moroccan universities between May 2019 and June 2020. RESULTS: The awareness of HPV infection was 14.7% and of HPV vaccine was 7.8%. The rate of immunization coverage against HPV was less than 1%. Over 67% of participants were willing to receive the HPV vaccine. Awareness of cervical cancer (p-Value = 0.04) and the HPV vaccine (p-Value = 0.01), and acceptability of Pap smear test (p-Value <0.01) were significant predictors of HPV vaccine acceptability. CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed an insufficient amounts of awareness of HPV and of HPV vaccine uptake in a sample of Moroccan university young women. This lack of awareness needs intervention, and it is important to develop an awareness program for young female population either within or outside universities in order to promote vaccination uptake and ultimately lower the cervical cancer rate in Morocco. |
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spelling | pubmed-89930202022-04-09 Awareness, attitudes and acceptability of the HPV vaccine among female university students in Morocco Yacouti, A. Elkhoudri, N. El got, A. Benider, A. Hadrya, F. Baddou, R. Forster, A. Mouallif, M. PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: In Morocco, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer affecting women behind breast cancer. The Human PapillomaVirus (HPV) vaccine has been available in Morocco since 2008 but its introduction in the national immunization program is still under discussion. There is limited data regarding acceptability and predictors of HPV vaccine acceptability among Moroccan young women. This study aimed to evaluate the awareness of female university students of HPV and the vaccine and to identify predictors of HPV vaccine acceptability. METHODS: We conducted a structured interviewer-administered questionnaire with 1087 participants in six Moroccan universities between May 2019 and June 2020. RESULTS: The awareness of HPV infection was 14.7% and of HPV vaccine was 7.8%. The rate of immunization coverage against HPV was less than 1%. Over 67% of participants were willing to receive the HPV vaccine. Awareness of cervical cancer (p-Value = 0.04) and the HPV vaccine (p-Value = 0.01), and acceptability of Pap smear test (p-Value <0.01) were significant predictors of HPV vaccine acceptability. CONCLUSIONS: This study revealed an insufficient amounts of awareness of HPV and of HPV vaccine uptake in a sample of Moroccan university young women. This lack of awareness needs intervention, and it is important to develop an awareness program for young female population either within or outside universities in order to promote vaccination uptake and ultimately lower the cervical cancer rate in Morocco. Public Library of Science 2022-04-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8993020/ /pubmed/35395019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266081 Text en © 2022 Yacouti et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Yacouti, A. Elkhoudri, N. El got, A. Benider, A. Hadrya, F. Baddou, R. Forster, A. Mouallif, M. Awareness, attitudes and acceptability of the HPV vaccine among female university students in Morocco |
title | Awareness, attitudes and acceptability of the HPV vaccine among female university students in Morocco |
title_full | Awareness, attitudes and acceptability of the HPV vaccine among female university students in Morocco |
title_fullStr | Awareness, attitudes and acceptability of the HPV vaccine among female university students in Morocco |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness, attitudes and acceptability of the HPV vaccine among female university students in Morocco |
title_short | Awareness, attitudes and acceptability of the HPV vaccine among female university students in Morocco |
title_sort | awareness, attitudes and acceptability of the hpv vaccine among female university students in morocco |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8993020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35395019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266081 |
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