Awareness of human papilloma virus, cervical cancer and HPV vaccine in healthcare workers and students of medical and nursing schools

Abstract

Objectives: Establishment of the knowledge and the need to make conscious in medicine students, nursing students and nurses due to the effective role of updating conscious of the health workers, we aimed to assess the knowledge of nurses and students of İstanbul Bilim University and affiliated hospitals about HPV and cervical cancer. Materials and methods: Because healthcare personnel illuminate and influences the public, the survey was conducted to medicine students of the first three years, nursing students and nurses. The reason of choosing the first three years of medicine students is with the begining of the gynecology courses at the 4th year of education in medical faculty, learning takes the place of awareness. Totally 743 participants were asked to survey but 603 subjects responded (81.2%) then the surveys that was not asked for the identity information were taken into consideration Results: Nurses and students of nursing had better knowledge about smear test when compared to students of medicine (first 3 years) and other healthcare personnel. Only 52% accepted to get a daughter vaccinated. The main reasons for vaccine rejection were the concerns about vaccine safety (41%), cost of the vaccine (10%) and sexual promiscuity (5%) after vaccination. Religious aspects were not considered as an obstacle. Conclusions: The awareness of HPV, cervical cancer and HPV vaccination should be increased.

Keywords

• HPV, HPV vaccine, cervical cancer, knowledge

Sağlık çalışanları, tıp öğrencileri ve hemşirelik öğrencilerinde insan papilloma virüsü, servikal kanser ve HPV aşısı farkındalığı

Öz

Amaç: Sağlık çalışanlarının halkı bilgilendirmedeki etkin rolü göz önüne alındığında hemşirelik öğrencileri, tıp öğrencileri ve hemşirelerin serviks kanseri, HPV ve HPV aşıları hakkındaki bilinç düzeyinin tespit edilmesini ve bilinçlendirme ihtiyacının araştırılmasını amaçladık ve İstanbul Bilim Üniversitesi öğrencileri ve afiliye hastanelerdeki sağlık çalışanlarının HPV ve serviks kanseri hakkındaki bilgilerini değerlendirdik. Gereç ve yöntem: Sağlık personeli, toplumu bilgilendirme ve yönlendirme yaptığı için, anket, tıp fakültesi ilk 3 yıl öğrencilerine, hemşirelik öğrencilerine ve hemşirelere yapıldı. Dördüncü sınıftan itibaren jinekoloji derslerinin başlamasıyla birlikte bilinç yerini bilgiye bıraktığı için sadece ilk üç yıldaki tıp öğrencileri seçilmiştir. Anket sorularını cevaplandırması istenen 743 katılımcının 603 tanesi (% 81,2) anketimizi cevaplamayı kabul etti. Daha sonra kimlik bilgisi istenmeyen anketler değerlendirmeye alındı. Bulgular: Hemşireler ve hemşirelik öğrencileri, tıp fakültesi öğrencileri (ilk 3 yıl) ve diğer sağlık çalışanlarıyla kıyaslandığında smear test konusunda daha bilgiliydiler. Katılımcıların sadece %52\'si kızlarının aşılanmasına itiraz etmeyeceğini beyan etti. Aşıyı kabul etmeyenlerin kabul etmeme gerekçeleri aşının güvenirliliği hakkındaki endişeler (% 41), aşının maliyeti (%10) ve aşılanmadan sonra cinsel ilişki serbestisinin onaylanması fikri (%5) idi. Dini konular engel olarak değerlendirilmedi. Sonuç: HPV, serviks kanseri ve HPV aşıları hakkındaki farkındalığın artırılması gerekmektedir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• HPV, HPV aşıları, serviks kanseri, bilinç düzeyi

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