Fathers’ intentions to accept human papillomavirus vaccination for sons and daughters: exploratory findings from rural Honduras

Perkins, Rebecca B.; Mehta, Pooja; Langrish, Sarah

doi:10.1007/s00038-011-0271-7

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“…Compared to one Honduran study (Perkins et al, 2012) and one German study (Kuznetsov et al, 2012) where 22% and 29% of fathers, respectively, had heard of HPV, awareness in this study was slightly higher at 37%, but considerably lower than a recent Italian study where 77% of fathers had heard of HPV (Pelucchi et al, 2010). Higher education level in the Italian study is suggested to be one of the reasons for the difference.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…It was also similar to fathers in Honduras (94%) (Perkins et al, 2012) and considerably higher (65%) than the Italian study (Pelucchi et al, 2010), indicating that father's awareness of HPV is not a measure of HPV vaccine acceptance. While all single fathers in both the present and Honduran study indicated they would vaccinate their daughter against HPV, our study did highlight some issues specific to these fathers, such as talking about the sexual nature of HPV or place of vaccination, that need to be addressed.…”

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An Exploratory Study of Japanese Fathers' Knowledge of and Attitudes towards HPV and HPV Vaccination: Does Marital Status Matter?

Hanley¹,

Yoshioka²,

Ito³

et al. 2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Background: No studies on male attitudes towards HPV and HPV vaccination have been conducted in Japan, and little is known globally whether attitudes of single fathers differ to those living with a female partner. This exploratory study assessed whether Japanese fathers were likely to have their daughter vaccinated against HPV in a publically funded program and whether any differences existed regarding attitudes and knowledge about HPV according to marital status. Materials and Methods: Subjects were 27 fathers (16 single; 11 married) who took part in a study on HPV vaccine acceptability aimed at primary caregivers of girls aged 11-14 yrs in three Japanese cities between July and December 2010. Results: Knowledge about HPV was extremely poor (mean score out of 13 being 2.74±3.22) with only one (3.7%) participant believing he had been infected with HPV and most (81.4%) believing they had no or low future risk. No difference existed regarding knowledge or awareness of HPV according to marital status. Concerning perceived risk for daughters, single fathers were significantly more likely to believe their daughter was at risk for both HPV (87.5% versus 36.4%; p=0.01) and cervical cancer (75.0% versus 27.3%; p=0.02). Acceptability of free HPV vaccination was high at 92% with no difference according to marital status, however single fathers were significantly more likely (p=0.01) to pay when vaccination came at a cost. Concerns specific to single fathers included explaining the sexual nature of HPV and taking a daughter to a gynecologist to be vaccinated. Conclusions: Knowledge about HPV among Japanese fathers is poor, but HPV vaccine acceptability is high and does not differ by marital status. Providing sexual health education in schools that addresses lack of knowledge about HPV as well as information preferences expressed by single fathers, may not only increase HPV vaccine acceptance, but also actively involve men in cervical cancer prevention strategies. However, further large-scale quantitative studies are needed.

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An Exploratory Study of Japanese Fathers' Knowledge of and Attitudes towards HPV and HPV Vaccination: Does Marital Status Matter?

Hanley¹,

Yoshioka²,

Ito³

et al. 2014

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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“…Similarly, 24.6 -68% of women were found to wish vaccination for their daughters in studies conducted in Turkey (Onan et al, 2009;Dursun et al, 2009). In the literature, the rates of for mothers' willingness to have their daughters vaccinated against HPV vary between between 70% and 88% (Fazekas et al, 2008;Watts et al, 2009;DiAngi et al, 2011) and that for fathers to be between 90% and-94% (Pelucchi et al, 2010;Perkins et al, 2012). However, there are also studies indicating lower (Dempsey et al, 2009) and higher rates (Pelucchi et al, 2010).…”

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“…Thus, in populations like Turkey in which the family concept is important, the values of family members are considered to be affected by each other. Despite the fact that there is no similar study in the literature evaluating the decision for vaccination between mothers and daughters, there are studies indicating that there is consistency between the mothers and fathers in terms of opinions on vaccination (Breitkopf et al, 2009;Perkins et al, 2012). Breitkopf et al (2009) reported that 91% of parents of whom all were healthcare personnel believed that their and their partners' decisions would be similar, and 77% believed that their decisions and decisions of their daughters would be similar (Breitkopf et al, 2009).…”

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Acceptance of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine by Adolescent Girls and Their Parents in Turkey

Kılıç¹,

Seven²,

Güvenç³

et al. 2012

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to identify the opinions of Turkish adolesecent girls and their parents about HPV vaccination and the consistency. Methods: This descriptive study covered 301 girls and their parents. Questionnares were developed by the researchers based on findings within the literature and applied for data collection. Results: The mean age was 19.4 for girls, 44.2 for mothers and 47.9 for fathers. It was found that 43.5 percent of girls and 31.9 percent of mothers wish to be vaccinated against HPV. Also, 45.5 percent of mothers and 44.9 percent of fathers wish for their daughters to be vaccinated against HPV. A moderate consistency was found between mothers and fathers; a low consistency was found between fathers and girls, and between mothers and girls. Conclusions: The study indicates that an appropriate background has been partially provided about the acceptability of the vaccine between parents and their daughters in Turkey. However, the vast majority of adolescent girls and parents are indecisive or reluctant about HPV vaccination. This study also showed that the decisions of adolescents about vaccination may be affected by the opinions of the parents.

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We read the paper by Perkins et al (2011) with great interest because it highlighted a very important issue about fathers' attitudes towards HPV infection and their intentions regarding HPV vaccine. No surveys have been published yet demonstrating the extent of fathers' knowledge of HPV and HPV vaccine together with its acceptance in Germany.

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Fathers’ knowledge of and attitude towards human papillomavirus infection, genitoanal warts, cervical cancer and HPV vaccine

Kuznetsov

Zippel

Ruzicka

et al. 2012

Int J Public Health

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We read the paper by Perkins et al. (2011) with great interest because it highlighted a very important issue about fathers' attitudes towards HPV infection and their intentions regarding HPV vaccine. No surveys have been published yet demonstrating the extent of fathers' knowledge of HPV and HPV vaccine together with its acceptance in Germany. In an attempt to fill this gap, we would like to share our findings from a recent pilot survey investigating the awareness of HPV infection and related health outcomes as well as HPV prevention by vaccination, in fathers and non-fathers attending the Munich University outpatient clinic (non-sexually transmitted infections/HIV or genito-urinary medicine).Between January and February 2010, consecutive male German-speaking patients who were 18 years of age or older were asked to participate in an anonymous cross-sectional survey on HPV, HPV vaccination and genitoanal neoplasms. Multiple regression was used to analyse the association between age, family status, education and parental status, and HPV-related knowledge, reporting adjusted odds ratios (ORs) with their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). A p value \0.05 was considered as significant. Statistical analyses were performed using the PASW Statistics 18 software (SPSS, Chicago, IL). The survey was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Medical Faculty of LudwigMaximilian University.The final sample included 243 respondents (75.9% out of 320 questionnaires handed out). The median age of the participants was 44.4 (mean = 43.8, standard deviation ±15.2) years; almost half (43.6%, n = 106) of the respondents were married, 32.1% (n = 78) single, 45.7% (n = 111) fathers, one-third had a college (34.4%, n = 83) or university education (29%, n = 70), and 61.2% (n = 148) were in employment.Less than one-third (29.2% out of 243) of the participants had heard of HPV and only 14% of HPV vaccine. The HPV and genitoanal warts-related knowledge in the whole sample and by parental status is presented in Table 1. About half of our respondents were fathers who had, on average, 1.8 children (median = 2). Only 19.8% of fathers were aware of HPV, 8.2% had heard of HPV vaccine and only two of them let their daughters have the HPV vaccination; five would let their daughter get vaccinated if they had one. Non-fathers were significantly more aware of HPV and HPV vaccination than fathers (Table 1). Being a father was associated with an increased probability of not having heard of HPV (OR = 2.33, 1.29-4.19; n = 241), HPV vaccine (OR = 2.64, 1.17-5.94; n = 237) and not knowing of the causal link between HPV and genitoanal warts (asked as a one term) (OR = 2.03, 1.19-3.46; n = 234) compared to non-fathers.The study showed a very limited knowledge in males and especially in fathers regarding HPV infection and vaccination. In an Italian study, 76.9% fathers (of n = 1,093) had heard of HPV (Pelucchi et al. 2010) and in an American study, 85% (of n = 111) were aware of HPV vaccine (Cates et al. 2010).The majority of our respondents who were aware of HPV...

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Fathers’ intentions to accept human papillomavirus vaccination for sons and daughters: exploratory findings from rural Honduras

Abstract: Few Honduran fathers were aware of HPV or HPV vaccination, but after receiving information, most would accept HPV vaccination for their sons and daughters.

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

An Exploratory Study of Japanese Fathers' Knowledge of and Attitudes towards HPV and HPV Vaccination: Does Marital Status Matter?

An Exploratory Study of Japanese Fathers' Knowledge of and Attitudes towards HPV and HPV Vaccination: Does Marital Status Matter?

Acceptance of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine by Adolescent Girls and Their Parents in Turkey

Fathers’ knowledge of and attitude towards human papillomavirus infection, genitoanal warts, cervical cancer and HPV vaccine

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