Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of School Nurses in the United Arab Emirates about HPV Infection and Vaccine

Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Barriers Towards HPV Vaccination among Nurses in Turkey: a Longitudinal Study

“…Almost one out of ten nurses (9.5%) stated that they had never heard about HPV infection and 14.3% of them had not heard of the vaccine. Similiarly with other previous studies, in United Arap Emirates nearly all of school nurses (97%) (Ortashi et al, 2012), in Nigeria 84.8% of the nurses (Makwe and Anorlu, 2011), 81.0% of non-physician health care providers and 97.2% of physician (Naki et al, 2010) and in Ankara, Turkey 55.7% of the nurses students (Guvenc et al, 2012) had heard of HPV infection. According to Marlow et al (2013) study findings, 61.1% of participants had heard of HPV.…”

“…Similarly, when the literature was viewed, it was seen that of nurses 70.1% in Nigerian (Makve and Anorlu, 2011), 78.5% in Greece (Dinas et al, 2009), 710% in New Zealand (Henninger, 2009), 80.0% in United Arap Emirates (Ortashi et al, 2012) and 81.8% in Thailand (Phianmongkhol et al, 2011) knew about the relationship between CC and HPV infection. In Turkey 92.9% of the pediatricians (Yildirim et al, 2009), 76.9% of nursing students , in Christchurch 73.0% of health care providers (Henninger et al, 2009) and in Hong Kong 44.4% of primary care physicians (Wong et al, 2013) knew that HPV infection was the most important risk factor for CC.…”

“…In the middle age women, cervical cancer (CC) is the third most common (Ferlay et al, 2010;Wamai et al, 2013), the fourth leading cause of cancer mortality among women cancer in worldwide (Wamai et al, 2013) and with about 500.000 new cases and 250.000 deaths each year (Ferlay et al, 2010;Pinar et al, 2010;Ortashi et al, 2012;Ozyer et al, 2013). In Turkey, CC is the ninth most common cancer among women, the incidence was estimated to be 4.3/100,000 in 2007 (Naki et al, 2010;Ozyer et al, 2013) and estimated mortality rate for CC was found to be 14.9/100,000 which was ranks 13th among cancer-related deaths.…”

“…Various international studies have demonstrated that health care professionals had a basic knowledge about CC, HPV and related disease, HPV tests and HPV vaccine; but lack detailed knowledge (Makwe and Anorlu, 2011;Phianmongkhol et al, 2011;Kwan et al, 2012;Ortashi et al, 2012) and also previous studies indicated that women have desired information about HPV and CC, parents and women considering having their daughters vaccinated for HPV vaccine recommendation from health professionals to be important predictor of vaccine receipt (Pinar et al, 2010;Yanikkerem et al, 2010;Wong and Do, 2012).…”

Assessment of the Knowledge, Attitude and Acceptability towards Human Papilloma Virus and its Vaccine among Undergraduate Female Medical Students, South-West Ethiopia

“…Only 43.80% were found to have adequate knowledge which is lower than the report of study findings done in different countries [22,[36][37][38] which might be because of the difference in the methodology and socio-economic conditions of the study participants and in addition most of the study participants in our study are in their pre-medicine and preclinical year of study at the university [39][40][41].…”