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Awareness Regarding Human Papilloma Virus Among Health Professionals and Will to Accept Vaccination: A Systematic Review.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Uptake and determinants of HPV vaccination in South Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Occupational HPV exposure and vaccination among healthcare workers: Implications for institutional vaccination strategies.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
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- Willingness to receive cross-border human papillomavirus vaccination among Chinese male university students: a cross-sectional study with statistical indirect-association analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Role of cyberchondria severity in the relationship between HPV awareness and vaccination status among adult women.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Strategies, Barriers, and Facilitators for Healthcare Professionals to Recommend HPV Vaccination: A Systematic Review.Vaccines · 2025Review
- Vaccines for cancer prevention: exploring opportunities and navigating challenges.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2025Review
- Determinates of STI prevention service utilisation among young and hard-to-reach populations: a protocol for a mixed-methods study in Foggia district, Italy, 2025.BMJ public health · 2025Article
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- Unraveling Emerging Anal Cancer Clinical Biomarkers from Current Immuno-Oncogenomics Advances.Molecular diagnosis & therapy · 2024Review
- Knowledge of Human Papillomavirus (HPV), Attitudes, and Practices Towards Anti-HPV Vaccination Among Israeli Nurses.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2023Article
- Vaccine hesitancy among nursing and midwifery undergraduate students in Switzerland: protocol for an online national study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease and the leading cause of cervical cancer. The undeniable causal link between HPV and cervical cancer led to the creation of HPV prophylactic vaccines. Health professionals are key in counseling parents about their children's immunization, as they are considered valid and reliable sources of information. The systematic review aimed to determine doctors' and nurses' knowledge of HPV, their awareness of the vaccine, and their willingness to accept vaccination. Systematic studies were conducted from 2015 to January 2022 in Medline/PubMed and Google Scholar online databases. The systematic review included 10 good-quality cross-sectional studies and a total of 6700 participants who were administered self-administered questionnaires or personal interviews. From the analysis of most of the studies, it is demonstrated that health professionals have a satisfactory level of knowledge about HPV infection and its effects on human health, even if their knowledge gap in essential details regarding the virus and HPV vaccination is apparent. It was found that various factors regarding health professionals, such as their specialty, gender, working environment, weekly working hours, and the interval since their last HPV training, contribute to forming their knowledge level about HPV and vaccination. In addition, most studies show that most healthcare professionals knew about the existence of HPV vaccines but did not know many details about how their work and their potential benefits. In conclusion, the provision of counseling by health professionals is currently estimated to be the strongest predictor of target group compliance with the HPV vaccine. Consequently, it is essentially considered to investigate the HPV-related knowledge level among health workers and to intensively reeducate them regarding the HPV infection risks and the necessity of HPV vaccination to improve their awareness and strengthen their attitude in favor of vaccination against cervical cancer.
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