International Anatolia Academic Online Journal Health Sciences

Yazarlar: Sevgül DÖNMEZ, Süreyya GÜMÜŞSOY

Konular:Sağlık Bilimleri ve Hizmetleri

Anahtar Kelimeler:Human Papillomavirus,Cervical cancer,Vaccine,Young people

Özet: The study was conducted to investigate the knowledge, attitude, behavior and barriers of university students about Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and cervical cancer (CC). This descriptive study was conducted with 1007 students between September-November 2019. The “Information Questionnaire” was used as the data collection tool. The study was found that 58.6% of the students heard of HPV vaccine previously, 57.1% were undecided whether the HPV vaccine would protect against HPV. Of those who did not get the vaccine, 19.8% were not willing to receive it and 55.2% were undecided to receive it. When the reasons for students not to have HPV vaccine are examined; they stated that they did not have it because they did not have enough information about the vaccine, because they did not consider it necessary to have the vaccine, because they were afraid of its side effects, because it was expensive and because they thought it would not protect against HPV infection. Also, it was found that more than half of them did not consider that they were at risk for CC and did not know risk factors for CC. The participants’ knowledge of CC and risk factors was inadequate.

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