Assessment of knowledge and attitude towards hpv and hpv vaccination among students at Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG) Kampus Kota Bharu
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a major factor for cervical cancer. The cervical cancer was ranked as the second most common cancer that occurs among women worldwide. The routine HPV vaccination to combat the disease is not widely available in most developing countries. However, in Malaysia there w...
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| Format: | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
2015
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/60119/ http://eprints.usm.my/60119/1/NOOR%20ASYIKIN%20BINTI%20MANSOR%20-%20e.pdf |
| Summary: | Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a major factor for cervical cancer. The cervical cancer
was ranked as the second most common cancer that occurs among women worldwide. The
routine HPV vaccination to combat the disease is not widely available in most developing
countries. However, in Malaysia there was an initiative that taken to reduce the spread of HPV
infection which is by offered free HPV vaccination to 13 years old females. The most effective
ways to implement this by organizing a national school based vaccination program. Teachers are
groups that may have good influence in the success of the program therefore important to
provide information on them. The purpose of this study to assess the knowledge and attitude
towards HPV and HPV vaccination among students at Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG) Kampus
Kota Bharu which was involving students that going to be teachers in the future. This research
was done to determine mean difference between selected demographic data with mean
knowledge score as well as the mean difference between levels of knowledge with mean
attitudes score towards HPV vaccination. This cross sectional study was carried out to 89
participants who selected through convenience sampling at IPG Kampus Kota Bharu. Both male
and females students that was a first year students were included in this study. Self administered
questions was distributed which consists of 3 parts. Part A is a demographic data, Part B is a
Knowledge on HPV and HPV vaccine while Part C is assessing Attitudes towards HPV
vaccination. The data obtained was analyzed by using SPSS version 21.0 by using One Way
Anova statistical test to determine the mean difference of the variable involved. This study
showed that the level of knowledge is 41.6% of them have poor knowledge levels while there
was only 11.2% had good knowledge and the remaining had an average knowledge with 47.2%.
However, there were 43.8% of participants had a positive attitude.
The demographic data (parents’ educational level) found to have significant mean difference
with mean knowledge score with p value= 0.030 and 0.042 for mother and father education level
respectively. Furthermore, there was also a significant mean difference between the level of
knowledge with mean attitude score with p value= 0.001. As a result of the findings although
they have low levels of knowledge but majority of them have positive attitude regarding HPV
vaccination. This positive attitude will lead to intention to get HPV vaccination and they need to
be provided with health education and adequate information regarding HPV infection, HPV
vaccine and HPV vaccination to make sure an effective prevention to reduce the burden of
cervical cancer incidence. |
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