2022
DOI: 10.1186/s12978-022-01444-4
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Knowledge and willingness of parents towards child girl HPV vaccination in Debre Tabor Town, Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study

Abstract: Background Cervical cancer is currently the second-leading cause of cancer death among women in Ethiopia. Vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) is an effective primary prevention strategy for HPV-related illnesses. The knowledge and willingness of parents toward the HPV vaccine are crucial to increasing the uptake of the vaccine. The vaccine's acceptance by children and young adolescents is dependent on parental consent. Therefore, this study aimed to assess knowledge, willingness,… Show more

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“…In this study, parents’ willingness to HPV vaccination for their daughters was higher than studies conducted in the USA, 42%, Argentina, 59.88%, Nigeria, 44.9%, and Ethiopia, 44.8%, respectively. 13 , 16 , 18 , 19 This variation could be due to the differences in study setting and period, study population, and the data collection method. Most of the aforementioned studies were school-based, and the study from Nigeria included only mothers as the study participants.…”
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“…In this study, parents’ willingness to HPV vaccination for their daughters was higher than studies conducted in the USA, 42%, Argentina, 59.88%, Nigeria, 44.9%, and Ethiopia, 44.8%, respectively. 13 , 16 , 18 , 19 This variation could be due to the differences in study setting and period, study population, and the data collection method. Most of the aforementioned studies were school-based, and the study from Nigeria included only mothers as the study participants.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is supported by studies done in Poland, 32 Malaysia, 55 Nigeria, 19 , 21 Kenya, 15 and Ethiopia. 3 , 16 , 20 This might be probably because, due to the seriousness of the disease and people’s fear of developing cancer, parents might seek to protect their daughters from cervical cancer that knowledge of parents to HPV infection and its vaccination is an important factor in the vaccination of their daughters. 19 Knowing the risks and complications of the HPV virus, and the advantages of its vaccination plays an important impute in parents’ acceptance of the vaccine.…”
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“…18 The low HPV vaccination uptake is multifaceted and can be attributed in part to a variety of predictors such as low vaccine knowledge, fear of pain, vaccine side effects, ethnicity, age, sexual behavior, immunization history, and school attendance status. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Besides, some parents' beliefs that HPV vaccination might encourage promiscuity, earlier sexual debut in young girls, and that the vaccine might lead to unsafe sexual behavior were barriers to HPV vaccination uptake. [22][23][24][25][26] According to the Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (2016), only 12% of the targeted population in Gulu Municipality had been vaccinated, and the figure rose by a meager 5% (to 17%) in 2018 (District Health Information Software2, 2018).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…As far as our knowledge is concerned, little is known about the knowledge of parents toward HPV vaccination and HPV vaccine uptake and associated factors, and school students were the potential with bad attitude toward HPV vaccination uptake [22][23][24]. Since the HPV vaccine was only recently introduced in Ethiopia, more research is therefore needed to determine the adolescents' willingness to uptake HPV vaccine.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%