Awareness of human papillomavirus infection, testing and vaccination in midwives and midwifery students in Greece

被引：20

作者：

Dinas, K. ^{[1
]}

Nasioutziki, M. ^{[1
]}

Arvanitidou, O. ^{[1
]}

Mavromatidis, G. ^{[2
]}

Loufopoulos, P. ^{[1
]}

Pantazis, K. ^{[3
]}

Dovas, D. ^{[1
]}

Daniilidis, A. ^{[1
]}

Tsampazis, N. ^{[1
]}

Zepiridis, L. ^{[3
]}

Theodoridis, T. ^{[3
]}

Loufopoulos, A. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Hippokrat Hosp, Dept Obstet & Gynaecol 2, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece

[2] Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Hippokrat Hosp, Dept Obstet & Gynaecol 3, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece

[3] Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Hippokrat Hosp, Dept Obstet & Gynaecol 1, GR-54006 Thessaloniki, Greece

来源：

JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNAECOLOGY | 2009年 / 29卷 / 06期

关键词：

Cervical cancer; HPV infection; HPV vaccine; midwifery students; midwives; CERVICAL-CANCER; UNITED-STATES; RISK-FACTORS; PUBLIC AWARENESS; WOMENS KNOWLEDGE; HPV VACCINATION; ATTITUDES; PREVALENCE; WORLDWIDE; BELIEFS;

D O I：

10.1080/01443610902977684

中图分类号：

R71 [妇产科学];

学科分类号：

100211 ;

摘要：

Midwives play an important role in the implementation of cervical cancer screening. We assessed the knowledge of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and of its relationship with cervical cancer in 107 midwives and 29 graduating midwifery students. The majority of midwives (78.5%) were aware that a viral infection causes cervical cancer, whereas only 48.3% of the students knew this (p = 0.003). Only one midwife (0.9%) was not aware of HPV infection compared with 10.3% of the students (p = 0.029). Midwives were also more knowledgeable of the relationship between HPV infection and cervical cancer and of the availability of a vaccine against HPV infection (p = 0.005 and p < 0.0001, respectively). In conclusion, Greek midwives have a satisfactory level of knowledge about cervical cancer and HPV infection, in contrast to midwifery students. It is important to better educate midwifery students in order to facilitate the incorporation of HPV testing and vaccination in clinical practice.

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