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KMID : 1140120130180010017
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Cancer Prevention Research
2013 Volume.18 No. 1 p.17 ~ p.25
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A Study on the Knowledge of Human Papilloma Virus, Vaccines and Performance of Cancer Prevention and the Acceptance of Vaccines among Adult Women
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Song Gab-Sun
Kim Joo-Yeon
Jun Eun-Mi
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to identify the knowledge of HPV and HPV vaccines and the acceptance of cancer preventive vaccine targeting adult women. The convenience sampling was conducted on subjects of 271 adult women who have visited Gynecologic Clinics residing in the B-city. For data analysis, it conducted the analysis of mean and standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient. The research results demonstrate that the knowledge about HPV vaccine was higher in less than 40’s in their age, subjects over college-graduates, single status in marriage condition, and subjects who have jobs, but the knowledge appeared to be very low with mean score, 5.34 (range 0∼22). In terms of the performance of cancer prevention, subjects of college graduates, those who have religion and were in higher economic level, those who are married, have no job, have a sex-partner and sexually transmitted diseases experience specially made an effort to prevent cancer. Of the subjects, 66.7% responded that they had a will to receive HPV vaccination and 86% subjects wanted to make their children vaccinate. In addition, there was no correlation found between the knowledge of HPV vaccine and the cancer- preventive performance.
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KEYWORD
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Human papilloma virus, Knowledge, Preventive cancer behavior, Vaccine, Acceptance
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