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Assessment of the first HPV vaccination campaign in two northern Italian health districts
- Source :
- Vaccine. 29(26)
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- From December 2008 the Italian region of Lombardy started offering the vaccine against HPV to all schoolgirls aged 12. Many topics like knowledge, organization and acceptability should be addressed. This study investigated the compliance to the first vaccination campaign in two suburbs of Milan and assessed the knowledge about HPV and cervical cancer among the mothers of the recipients and the opinions of the healthcare professionals about the campaign by using anonymous multiple choice questionnaires. Knowledge about HPV among mothers went from 63% to 76% after vaccination. Healthcare professionals gave an average grading of 5.7 (scale 1–10) about organization and management of the campaign. Coverage of the immunization campaign was quite poor: after the first round only 55.3% got vaccinated with the first dose. Knowledge of mothers of the recipients is still to improve, particularly among immigrants and less educated. It is necessary to implement information campaigns to improve knowledge about HPV and the acceptability of the new vaccine.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
MED/42 - IGIENE GENERALE E APPLICATA
media_common.quotation_subject
Health Personnel
Immigration
Mothers
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Interviews as Topic
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
Papillomavirus Vaccines
Human papillomavirus
Grading (education)
Papillomavirus Infection
Papillomaviridae
Papillomavirus Vaccine
Multiple choice
media_common
Cervical cancer
Mother
General Veterinary
General Immunology and Microbiology
Health professionals
business.industry
Questionnaire
Immunization Programs
Immunization Program
Papillomavirus Infections
Vaccination
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Hpv vaccination
Middle Aged
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
medicine.disease
Infectious Diseases
Italy
Family medicine
Molecular Medicine
Female
Immunization
business
Human
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18732518
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Vaccine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2af78bbb63d29c72ededd57bbc7f2ebf