Study on the Cognitive Status and Educational Intervention of College Students for HPV and Its Vaccines

Abstract

Objective: By means of understanding some college students’ cognition and willingness to vaccinate HPV and its vaccine definitely, meanwhile, grasping its influencing factors and sources of acquisition, we strive to design intervention program to achieve the prospect that modify university students’ cognition and attitude towards HPV and HPV vaccine, and then intensify the vaccination rate and penetration rate, thereby alleviating the infection rate. Method: Use so jump.com to design questionnaires, made posters and distributed online questionnaires in anonymous forms. Result: A total of 455 questionnaires were collected, of which 414 were valid. The contents of the survey included the general information of the subjects, the awareness of HPV and its vaccine, the willingness to vaccinate, the influencing factors, etc. Among them, only 23.2% college students had been vaccinated, including 8 males and 88 females. As can be clearly seen from the given datum, 92.1 percent of the unvaccinated are willing to get vaccinated, but the following reasons result in the low rate of vaccination, the total of 38.2 percent, 33.4 percent and 23.6 percent: the fancy price, a lack of current supplies of HPV vaccine and the uncertain reservation process. As technology rapidly increases and the information age expands, 80.4% college students learn about HPV and related information on the Internet. The cruising data indicates that gender and the level of knowledge related HPV have an impact on the willingness to vaccinate(p<0.05). Conclusion: Most college students have a fundamental cognition of HPV and its vaccine. It is essential to improve college students comprehensive understanding of HPV and its vaccine. It is also badly urged to improve the supply of vaccine, reduce the price of vaccine and publicize the way of vaccination to improve the vaccination rate.