Awareness and Knowledge about Human Papillomavirus Infection and Vaccination among Women in UAE

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors of Women Over 20 Years Old on Cervix Cancer in Istanbul, Turkey

“…'HPV can also affect men' was the lowest correct answered expression. While there are researches which knowledge level ratios are higher than ours in the literature (Paul et al, 2012;Ortashi et al, 2013;Wen et al, 2014). HPV and cervical cancer knowledge level of women is lower than ours in many studies (Khoo et al, 2011;Hoque et al, 2013;Al-Azri et al, 2014).…”

“…Nearly half of the women (48.7%) Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior of Women Regarding Cervix Cancer in Istanbul, Turkey answered correctly to the statement of 'Cervical cancer vaccines exist'. The ratios for knowledge of existence of vaccine for cervical cancer were between 17.1% -78.4% (Uysal and Birsel, 2009;Khoo et al, 2011;Ersan et al, 2012;Reis et al, 2012;Bekar et al ., 2013;Ortashi et al, 2013;Sahin et al, 2014;Wen et al, 2014;Yilmazel and Duman, 2014). In the literature there were both higher and lower results.…”

Awareness and Attitude Relating to the Human Papilloma Virus and its Vaccines Among Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialists in Turkey

“…However, religious beliefs alone are not effective on HPV vaccination; this may vary between different countries. A trial, performed in 2009 in Malaysia, reported that the physicians commonly recommended HPV vaccination for their patients and a trial, performed in 2011 in Indonesia, revealed that the parents commonly accepted the HPV vaccination while opposite results could be obtained from the trials in the United Arab Emirates and Syria (Wong et al, 2009;Jaspers et al, 2011;Ortashi et al, 2013;Alsaad et al, 2012). As is the case in many other trials, our trial also revealed that most of the participants (91.6%) thought that reduction of the HPV vaccine costs would decrease the frequency of vaccination (Kahn et al, 2005;Riedesel et al, 2005;Ozsurekci et al, 2013;Daley et al, 2006).…”

Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Cervical Cancer and Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination with Related Factors in Turkish University Students

“…The relevant studies from Portugal (Medeirosa and Ramadab, 2011), the Unites States of America (Allen et al, 2009a), Malaysia (Wong and Sam, 2010) and Poland (Kamzol et al, 2013) were conducted with university students and reported that knowledge level of the university students were low. In the community-based studies from United Kingdom (Marlow et al, 2007), Germany (Klug et al, 2008), China (Li et al, 2009;Lee et al, 2007), Holland (Lenselink et al, 2008), Korea (Kim, 2012) and Japan (Hanley et al, 2014) and United Arab Emirates (Ortashi et al, 2013) it was found out that community knowledge levels and awareness about HPV and cervical cancer was low whereas it was high in the United States of America (Jain et al, 2009) and Belgium (Donder et al, 2009).…”