Conocimientos, actitudes y aceptabilidad de la vacuna contra el virus de papiloma humano entre padres de familia de niñas menores de 14 años, afiliados al Dispensario Punta Corral. Cuenca, enero 2022

Abstract

According to the WHO, the Human Papillomavirus causes cervical cancer. It ranks fourth among the most common types of cancer, affecting 604,127 women, with an estimated number of 341,831 deaths in 2020. The majority of these deaths occur in less developed regions, where it is the cause of almost 12% of all female cancers. Objective: Identify awareness, perception and rate of approval of the Human Papillomavirus vaccine among parents of girls under 14 years old, affiliated with Punta Corral Health Center. Cuenca, January 2022.

Methodology: The study is observational, descriptive and cross-sectional and is composed parents with girls under the age of 14 years who are affiliated with the Rural Social Security Health Clinic of the Punta Corral on January 2022. One hundred and thirty-one parents were surveyed using ad hoc documents as a tool. Results: Of the 131 parents surveyed, the majority had a very low level of knowledge (46.6%), attitudes towards vaccination were bad (88.54%). Only 18.3% of the parents stated that they had their daughters vaccinated, additionally 65.6% of the parents (86 people) would vaccinate their daughters against the Human Papilloma Virus. Conclusions:

Parents had a very low level of knowledge and poor attitudes towards vaccination, which evidenced a low acceptability of the HPV vaccine. Knowledge and attitudes are associated with the decision of parents to vaccinate their daughters or not. It does not seem to be a sociodemographic influence of gender, age and educational level of the participants on the acceptability of the vaccine.