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Awareness and knowledge associated to Human papillomavirus infection among university students in Morocco: A cross-sectional study

Worldwide, cervical cancer is a real health issue, however, gaps exist in the public’s awareness of the causal role of Human papillomavirus (HPV) in the development of this disease. This study aims to determine the level of awareness, knowledge and the associated factors on HPV among university stud...

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Autores principales: El Mansouri, Nezha, Ferrera, Laila, Kharbach, Ahmed, Achbani, Abderrahmane, Kassidi, Farid, Rogua, Hanane, Ait Wahmane, Sofiane, Belmouden, Ahmed, Chouham, Said, Nejmeddine, Mohamed
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9269923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35802731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271222
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author El Mansouri, Nezha
Ferrera, Laila
Kharbach, Ahmed
Achbani, Abderrahmane
Kassidi, Farid
Rogua, Hanane
Ait Wahmane, Sofiane
Belmouden, Ahmed
Chouham, Said
Nejmeddine, Mohamed
author_facet El Mansouri, Nezha
Ferrera, Laila
Kharbach, Ahmed
Achbani, Abderrahmane
Kassidi, Farid
Rogua, Hanane
Ait Wahmane, Sofiane
Belmouden, Ahmed
Chouham, Said
Nejmeddine, Mohamed
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description Worldwide, cervical cancer is a real health issue, however, gaps exist in the public’s awareness of the causal role of Human papillomavirus (HPV) in the development of this disease. This study aims to determine the level of awareness, knowledge and the associated factors on HPV among university students in Morocco. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a descriptive and analytical aim, among students attending Ibn Zohr University, in Agadir, Morocco. An interview questionnaire was used to collect information about the participants: demographic data, awareness and level of knowledge on HPV infection, and awareness of cervical cancer. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine the associated factors with awareness and level of knowledge on HPV. A total of 479 students participated in this study (mean age 21.82 ± 2.091). Most participants n = 391 (81.6%) were aware of cervical cancer, while only n = 7 (1.5%) identified HPV as a sexually transmitted infection. Among students, 10.0% (n = 48) were aware of HPV but only half of them n = 23 (47.9%) confirmed that HPV is associated with cervical cancer, and n = 29 (60.4%) showed low knowledge on HPV. Multivariate analysis revealed that HPV awareness has a strong association with a higher level of education (OR 4.04; 95% CI: 1.92–8.52), and with being a biology student (OR 5.20; 95% CI: 2.12–12.73), while high HPV knowledge was only associated with the female gender (OR 3.76; 95% CI: 1.01–13.92). The data suggest that university students in Morocco did not show sufficient knowledge of HPV infection and its consequences. This supports that earlier incorporation of sexual health education programs, especially related to HPV and cervical cancer, must be implemented in the university to reduce the burden of HPV-associated diseases among the population at risk.
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spelling pubmed-92699232022-07-09 Awareness and knowledge associated to Human papillomavirus infection among university students in Morocco: A cross-sectional study El Mansouri, Nezha Ferrera, Laila Kharbach, Ahmed Achbani, Abderrahmane Kassidi, Farid Rogua, Hanane Ait Wahmane, Sofiane Belmouden, Ahmed Chouham, Said Nejmeddine, Mohamed PLoS One Research Article Worldwide, cervical cancer is a real health issue, however, gaps exist in the public’s awareness of the causal role of Human papillomavirus (HPV) in the development of this disease. This study aims to determine the level of awareness, knowledge and the associated factors on HPV among university students in Morocco. A cross-sectional study was conducted with a descriptive and analytical aim, among students attending Ibn Zohr University, in Agadir, Morocco. An interview questionnaire was used to collect information about the participants: demographic data, awareness and level of knowledge on HPV infection, and awareness of cervical cancer. Logistic regression analyses were used to determine the associated factors with awareness and level of knowledge on HPV. A total of 479 students participated in this study (mean age 21.82 ± 2.091). Most participants n = 391 (81.6%) were aware of cervical cancer, while only n = 7 (1.5%) identified HPV as a sexually transmitted infection. Among students, 10.0% (n = 48) were aware of HPV but only half of them n = 23 (47.9%) confirmed that HPV is associated with cervical cancer, and n = 29 (60.4%) showed low knowledge on HPV. Multivariate analysis revealed that HPV awareness has a strong association with a higher level of education (OR 4.04; 95% CI: 1.92–8.52), and with being a biology student (OR 5.20; 95% CI: 2.12–12.73), while high HPV knowledge was only associated with the female gender (OR 3.76; 95% CI: 1.01–13.92). The data suggest that university students in Morocco did not show sufficient knowledge of HPV infection and its consequences. This supports that earlier incorporation of sexual health education programs, especially related to HPV and cervical cancer, must be implemented in the university to reduce the burden of HPV-associated diseases among the population at risk. Public Library of Science 2022-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9269923/ /pubmed/35802731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271222 Text en © 2022 El Mansouri 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.
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El Mansouri, Nezha
Ferrera, Laila
Kharbach, Ahmed
Achbani, Abderrahmane
Kassidi, Farid
Rogua, Hanane
Ait Wahmane, Sofiane
Belmouden, Ahmed
Chouham, Said
Nejmeddine, Mohamed
Awareness and knowledge associated to Human papillomavirus infection among university students in Morocco: A cross-sectional study
title Awareness and knowledge associated to Human papillomavirus infection among university students in Morocco: A cross-sectional study
title_full Awareness and knowledge associated to Human papillomavirus infection among university students in Morocco: A cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Awareness and knowledge associated to Human papillomavirus infection among university students in Morocco: A cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Awareness and knowledge associated to Human papillomavirus infection among university students in Morocco: A cross-sectional study
title_short Awareness and knowledge associated to Human papillomavirus infection among university students in Morocco: A cross-sectional study
title_sort awareness and knowledge associated to human papillomavirus infection among university students in morocco: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9269923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35802731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271222
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