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Understanding of Young Adolescents About HPV Infection: How Health Education Can Improve Vaccination Rate

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The purpose of this systematic review was to identify adolescents’ awareness on the human papillomavirus (HPV), the HPV vaccine, and the willingness to undergo the vaccination. A systematic review of studies concerning the adolescent’s knowledge and education on the admission of the HPV vaccine was carried out, through the Medline/PubMed and the Google Scholar databases, covering information on adolescent attitudes towards HPV vaccination, as well as their perceptions regarding the vaccination and the need for more training, towards the public information about the HPV and the HPV vaccine. This study concludes that adolescents are poorly informed about the HPV and the preventive vaccination issues, underestimating the likelihood of the infection by the virus. The way to improve their knowledge about the HPV and the implications of the HPV infection is to provide information through the framework of compulsory schooling, primary health care, and the development of informative interactive interventions. The awareness for the need of training about the HPV and its implications should be broadened to address the major barrier to vaccination, which is regarded to be the lack of adequate information. The knowledge and the perceptible susceptibility to the HPV infection and HPV-related diseases among adolescents demonstrate the need for a well-designed training program to bridge the gap of information about the HPV virus and to accept the HPV vaccine.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, General Hospital in Trikala, Trikala, Greece

    Ioannis Thanasas

  2. Medical School and Department of Health Sciences, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Giagkos Lavranos

  3. Oncology Department, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, UK

    Pinelopi Gkogkou

  4. Department of Hygiene Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Dimitrios Paraskevis

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Thanasas, I., Lavranos, G., Gkogkou, P. et al. Understanding of Young Adolescents About HPV Infection: How Health Education Can Improve Vaccination Rate. J Canc Educ 35, 850–859 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-019-01681-5

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