Abstract
Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:
Purpose: This study was done to identify the gender difference of knowledge and attitude about Human Pepillomavirus(HPV) in college students.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey design with a convenient sampling was used. The subjects were 215 college students. Data collection was done by self-reporting method from September 10 to 22, 2012. The reliablilty of the instruments were from .81 to .83. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the characteristics of the sample and knowledge and attitude about Human Pepilomavirus(HPV). The independent t-test and x2test were performed using SPSS 18.0 to confirm gender differences.
Results: The participants in this study were 100 male and 115 female students. 7.2% of the participants has family history of cancer of cervix, ovarian cancer and uterine cancer. The percentage of correct answer of knowledge items toward the HPV were 4.2% to 42.8%. 84.7% of the participants were heard about cancer of cervix, 31.6% of the participants were heard about HPV, and 68.4% were heard about HPV vaccine. There was a significant differences in the correct answer rate about knowledge items toward the HPV between the gender. Female students were more correct answers than male student about 'HPV can be prevented with vaccine' (x2 =5.90, p=.019), but male students were more correct answers than female student about 'low risk virus make dysplasia of cervix area' ( x2=.01, p<.001) and for man, 'HPV can occur genital cancer, so preventive exam is necessary' (x2 =.7.26, p=.013). In attitude of HPV vaccine, male was higher attitude score than female about 'I am afraid of side effects of HPV vaccine' (t=2.704, p=.007). But female was higher attitude score than male about 'I don't need HPV vaccine' (t=-1.984, p=.049), 'I am not interest in HPV vaccine' (t=-2.339, p=.020), 'HPV vaccination may lead to unsafe sex' (t=-2.304, p=.022).
Conclusion: Subjects's knowledge about HPV were low level. College students were more aware of the HPV vaccine rather than HPV. The significantly differences between the gender were due to differences in gender characteristics.
Sigma Membership
Lambda Alpha at-Large
Type
Presentation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
N/A
Research Approach
N/A
Keywords:
Gender, Human Pepillomavirus Vaccine, College Students
Recommended Citation
Cho, Dong Sook, "Difference of knowledge and attitude about human pepillomavirus in male and female college students" (2014). INRC (Congress). 118.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/inrc/2014/presentations_2014/118
Conference Name
25th International Nursing Research Congress
Conference Host
Sigma Theta Tau International
Conference Location
Hong Kong
Conference Year
2014
Rights Holder
All rights reserved by the author(s) and/or publisher(s) listed in this item record unless relinquished in whole or part by a rights notation or a Creative Commons License present in this item record.
All permission requests should be directed accordingly and not to the Sigma Repository.
All submitting authors or publishers have affirmed that when using material in their work where they do not own copyright, they have obtained permission of the copyright holder prior to submission and the rights holder has been acknowledged as necessary.
Acquisition
Proxy-submission
Difference of knowledge and attitude about human pepillomavirus in male and female college students
Hong Kong
Session presented on Sunday, July 27, 2014:
Purpose: This study was done to identify the gender difference of knowledge and attitude about Human Pepillomavirus(HPV) in college students.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey design with a convenient sampling was used. The subjects were 215 college students. Data collection was done by self-reporting method from September 10 to 22, 2012. The reliablilty of the instruments were from .81 to .83. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the characteristics of the sample and knowledge and attitude about Human Pepilomavirus(HPV). The independent t-test and x2test were performed using SPSS 18.0 to confirm gender differences.
Results: The participants in this study were 100 male and 115 female students. 7.2% of the participants has family history of cancer of cervix, ovarian cancer and uterine cancer. The percentage of correct answer of knowledge items toward the HPV were 4.2% to 42.8%. 84.7% of the participants were heard about cancer of cervix, 31.6% of the participants were heard about HPV, and 68.4% were heard about HPV vaccine. There was a significant differences in the correct answer rate about knowledge items toward the HPV between the gender. Female students were more correct answers than male student about 'HPV can be prevented with vaccine' (x2 =5.90, p=.019), but male students were more correct answers than female student about 'low risk virus make dysplasia of cervix area' ( x2=.01, p<.001) and for man, 'HPV can occur genital cancer, so preventive exam is necessary' (x2 =.7.26, p=.013). In attitude of HPV vaccine, male was higher attitude score than female about 'I am afraid of side effects of HPV vaccine' (t=2.704, p=.007). But female was higher attitude score than male about 'I don't need HPV vaccine' (t=-1.984, p=.049), 'I am not interest in HPV vaccine' (t=-2.339, p=.020), 'HPV vaccination may lead to unsafe sex' (t=-2.304, p=.022).
Conclusion: Subjects's knowledge about HPV were low level. College students were more aware of the HPV vaccine rather than HPV. The significantly differences between the gender were due to differences in gender characteristics.