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HPV Vaccination among Polish Adolescents—Results from POLKA 18 Study

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the main cause of cervical cancer and genital warts and constitutes one of the most common sexually transmitted infections. Cervical cancer is the only reproductive cancer that has a primary prevention programme through the introduction of HPV vaccinations. Even though...

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Autores principales: Drejza, Michalina, Rylewicz, Katarzyna, Lewandowska, Maria, Gross-Tyrkin, Katarzyna, Łopiński, Grzegorz, Barwińska, Joanna, Majcherek, Ewa, Szymuś, Klaudia, Klein, Patrycja, Plagens-Rotman, Katarzyna, Pisarska-Krawczyk, Magdalena, Kędzia, Witold, Jarząbek-Bielecka, Grażyna
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9777763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36553909
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122385
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author Drejza, Michalina
Rylewicz, Katarzyna
Lewandowska, Maria
Gross-Tyrkin, Katarzyna
Łopiński, Grzegorz
Barwińska, Joanna
Majcherek, Ewa
Szymuś, Klaudia
Klein, Patrycja
Plagens-Rotman, Katarzyna
Pisarska-Krawczyk, Magdalena
Kędzia, Witold
Jarząbek-Bielecka, Grażyna
author_facet Drejza, Michalina
Rylewicz, Katarzyna
Lewandowska, Maria
Gross-Tyrkin, Katarzyna
Łopiński, Grzegorz
Barwińska, Joanna
Majcherek, Ewa
Szymuś, Klaudia
Klein, Patrycja
Plagens-Rotman, Katarzyna
Pisarska-Krawczyk, Magdalena
Kędzia, Witold
Jarząbek-Bielecka, Grażyna
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description Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the main cause of cervical cancer and genital warts and constitutes one of the most common sexually transmitted infections. Cervical cancer is the only reproductive cancer that has a primary prevention programme through the introduction of HPV vaccinations. Even though the majority of European countries have nationally funded HPV vaccination programmes, in Poland these are exclusively local and scarcely funded. Moreover, the majority of local programmes are directed to females only. Meanwhile, Poland has one of the highest cervical cancer incidence rates among high income countries. The aim of this study was to measure HPV vaccination levels among final-year students in Poland and to establish the association between vaccination status and gender, region and level of sexual education received. This study is a part of the POLKA 18 Study, which used original self-reported paper-based questionnaires distributed in schools in six Polish regions. The study was conducted between April and December 2019. The obtained data were analysed in STATA 17. In total, 2701 fully completed questionnaires were collected. Over half of the respondents (58.2%) did not know their HPV vaccination status. Only 16.0% of the respondents replied that they have been vaccinated against HPV (18.2% of females and 14.5% of males). There was no direct association between vaccination status and access to ‘family life education’ classes. The vaccination level significantly differed among the different regions of Poland (p < 0.0001), with the Śląskie and Wielkopolskie regions achieving the highest rates. At least a quarter of adolescents after their sexual debut have not been vaccinated against HPV. Regions with immunization programmes introduced to their provincial capitals had higher vaccination rates. Our findings indicate the need for the introduction of state-funded vaccination programmes at the national level for the vaccination rate to increase, which will have the potential to decrease cervical cancer incidence in the country.
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spelling pubmed-97777632022-12-23 HPV Vaccination among Polish Adolescents—Results from POLKA 18 Study Drejza, Michalina Rylewicz, Katarzyna Lewandowska, Maria Gross-Tyrkin, Katarzyna Łopiński, Grzegorz Barwińska, Joanna Majcherek, Ewa Szymuś, Klaudia Klein, Patrycja Plagens-Rotman, Katarzyna Pisarska-Krawczyk, Magdalena Kędzia, Witold Jarząbek-Bielecka, Grażyna Healthcare (Basel) Article Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the main cause of cervical cancer and genital warts and constitutes one of the most common sexually transmitted infections. Cervical cancer is the only reproductive cancer that has a primary prevention programme through the introduction of HPV vaccinations. Even though the majority of European countries have nationally funded HPV vaccination programmes, in Poland these are exclusively local and scarcely funded. Moreover, the majority of local programmes are directed to females only. Meanwhile, Poland has one of the highest cervical cancer incidence rates among high income countries. The aim of this study was to measure HPV vaccination levels among final-year students in Poland and to establish the association between vaccination status and gender, region and level of sexual education received. This study is a part of the POLKA 18 Study, which used original self-reported paper-based questionnaires distributed in schools in six Polish regions. The study was conducted between April and December 2019. The obtained data were analysed in STATA 17. In total, 2701 fully completed questionnaires were collected. Over half of the respondents (58.2%) did not know their HPV vaccination status. Only 16.0% of the respondents replied that they have been vaccinated against HPV (18.2% of females and 14.5% of males). There was no direct association between vaccination status and access to ‘family life education’ classes. The vaccination level significantly differed among the different regions of Poland (p < 0.0001), with the Śląskie and Wielkopolskie regions achieving the highest rates. At least a quarter of adolescents after their sexual debut have not been vaccinated against HPV. Regions with immunization programmes introduced to their provincial capitals had higher vaccination rates. Our findings indicate the need for the introduction of state-funded vaccination programmes at the national level for the vaccination rate to increase, which will have the potential to decrease cervical cancer incidence in the country. MDPI 2022-11-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9777763/ /pubmed/36553909 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122385 Text en © 2022 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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Drejza, Michalina
Rylewicz, Katarzyna
Lewandowska, Maria
Gross-Tyrkin, Katarzyna
Łopiński, Grzegorz
Barwińska, Joanna
Majcherek, Ewa
Szymuś, Klaudia
Klein, Patrycja
Plagens-Rotman, Katarzyna
Pisarska-Krawczyk, Magdalena
Kędzia, Witold
Jarząbek-Bielecka, Grażyna
HPV Vaccination among Polish Adolescents—Results from POLKA 18 Study
title HPV Vaccination among Polish Adolescents—Results from POLKA 18 Study
title_full HPV Vaccination among Polish Adolescents—Results from POLKA 18 Study
title_fullStr HPV Vaccination among Polish Adolescents—Results from POLKA 18 Study
title_full_unstemmed HPV Vaccination among Polish Adolescents—Results from POLKA 18 Study
title_short HPV Vaccination among Polish Adolescents—Results from POLKA 18 Study
title_sort hpv vaccination among polish adolescents—results from polka 18 study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9777763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36553909
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122385
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