Knowledge and Attitude towards Human Papillomavirus Vaccine and Associated Factors Among Mothers Who have Eligible Daughters in Debre Markos Town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021
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2021-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Background: Human papillomaviruses are a big group of highly ubiquitous, small viruses. It is a sexually transmitted disease. Both women and men are rapidly exposed to it after the onset of sexual intercourse. Even though, parents have an important role in the decision-making process regarding the HPV vaccination for their child. Less emphasis is given to their knowledge and attitude towards HPV vaccine; mainly to mothers.
Objective: To assess the level of knowledge and attitude towards human papillomavirus vaccine and associated factors among mothers who have eligible daughters in Debre Markos town, Northwest Ethiopia, 2021
Methods: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 601 mothers who have eligible daughters and selected by consecutive sampling technique from February 16/2021 to March 16/2021. The data was collected by using face-to-face interview administration and entered into EPI data version 3.1 then, exported to SPSS version 25 for analysis. Variables with a p-value of < 0.25 in bivariate were a candidate for multivariate and
those variables with a p-value of <0.05 in multivariate logistic regression were considered as a statistically significant factor for knowledge and attitude of HPV vaccine.
Result: A total of 601 study participants with a response rate of 100% were included in the study. Among participants in this study, 47.6% have good knowledge and 77.4% have positive attitude towards HPV vaccine. Knowledge of mothers about HPV vaccine was affected by having degree or higher (AOR=7.687; 95 % CI=1.837-32.168; p=0.005), not hearing about
HPV vaccine (AOR=0.172; 95%CI=0.098-0.302; P=0.000), and positive attitude towards HPV vaccine (AOR=2.959; 95%CI=1.580-5.539; P=0.001). Attitude of mothers towards HPV vaccine was affected by not hearing about HPV vaccine (AOR=0.285; 95%CI=0.163-0.499; P=000), and good knowledge about HPV vaccine (AOR=2.705; 95 % CI=1.454-5.035; 0.002).
Conclusion: knowledge about HPV vaccine was low. Maternal educational level, hearing about HPV vaccine and attitude towards HPV vaccine were factors associated with knowledge towards HPV vaccine. However, attitude was high and factors associated with attitudes towards HPV vaccine were knowledge about HPV vaccine and hearing about HPV vaccine.
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knowledge, attitude, HPV vaccine, mothers, Ethiopia