Assessment of the first HPV vaccination campaign in two northern Italian health districts

From December 2008 the Italian region of Lombardy started offering the vaccine against HPV to all schoolgirls aged 12. Many topics like knowledge, organization and acceptability should be addressed. This study investigated the compliance to the first vaccination campaign in two suburbs of Milan and...

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Published in:	Vaccine Vol. 29; no. 26; pp. 4405 - 4408
Main Authors:	Chadenier, G.M.C, Colzani, E, Faccini, M, Borriello, C.R, Bonazzi, C
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 10-06-2011 Elsevier Elsevier Limited
Subjects:	Adult Allergy and Immunology Applied microbiology Attitudes attitudes and opinions Biological and medical sciences Cervical cancer compliance Counseling Daughters Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Health care health care workers Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health Personnel - psychology Human papillomavirus Humans Immigrants immigration Immunization Immunization - psychology Immunization Programs Interviews as Topic Inventories Italy Knowledge Male Microbiology Middle Aged Miscellaneous Mothers Papillomaviridae - immunology Papillomavirus Infections - prevention & control Papillomavirus Vaccines - administration & dosage Papillomavirus Vaccines - immunology Patient Acceptance of Health Care - statistics & numerical data Personal health Questionnaires Suburbs Surveys and Questionnaires uterine cervical neoplasms Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - prevention & control Uterine Cervical Neoplasms - virology Vaccination Vaccination - statistics & numerical data Vaccination campaign Vaccines Vaccines, antisera, therapeutical immunoglobulins and monoclonal antibodies (general aspects) Virology Womens health Italy Knowledge Human papillomavirus Vaccination campaign Papillomavirus Virus Vaccination Papovaviridae
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Summary:	From December 2008 the Italian region of Lombardy started offering the vaccine against HPV to all schoolgirls aged 12. Many topics like knowledge, organization and acceptability should be addressed. This study investigated the compliance to the first vaccination campaign in two suburbs of Milan and assessed the knowledge about HPV and cervical cancer among the mothers of the recipients and the opinions of the healthcare professionals about the campaign by using anonymous multiple choice questionnaires. Knowledge about HPV among mothers went from 63% to 76% after vaccination. Healthcare professionals gave an average grading of 5.7 (scale 1–10) about organization and management of the campaign. Coverage of the immunization campaign was quite poor: after the first round only 55.3% got vaccinated with the first dose. Knowledge of mothers of the recipients is still to improve, particularly among immigrants and less educated. It is necessary to implement information campaigns to improve knowledge about HPV and the acceptability of the new vaccine.
Bibliography:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.04.007 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-2 ObjectType-Feature-1
ISSN:	0264-410X 1873-2518
DOI:	10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.04.007