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Background: Cervical cancer, caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. Although many countries have introduced national HPV vaccination programs, many girls worldwide remain unprotected. As part of a demonstration project in 2016, the Indonesian government provided the HPV vaccination for free to all year five and six female students in Jakarta and several other cities, with a plan to roll out the program nationally in the future. Understanding parents’ decision-making regarding whether they will allow their daughters to receive the HPV vaccine is important to ensure optimum uptake. Methods: Twenty-four parents in Jakarta were interviewed. Data were analysed thematically using The Theory of Planned Behaviour constructs of attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control. Result: Some parents had limited knowledge about cervical cancer and the HPV vaccine; others did not even realise that the free HPV vaccination program had been offered in their daughter’s schools. Those who had better knowledge and positive attitudes trusted their health professionals as a source of information. Peer approval, trust in the government and having the vaccine through a school-based program was important for trust, eliminated cost barriers, and increased access. Conclusion: Parents’ attitudes towards cervical cancer and HPV vaccination are influenced in part by their knowledge. Shaping positive initial attitudes is important, as once formed, attitudes are often difficult to change. Our findings suggest that a free school-based vaccine accompanied by sufficient and non-ambiguous information from trusted sources is vital to uptake.
Unlocking the economic potential: How attitudes and culture shape development | By Dr Asif Maqsood Butt pakobserver.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pakobserver.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
UniMAC-GIJ holds inter-faculty lecture on road safety behaviours of drivers on March 3 modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
"[D]igital health interventions can cost-effectively provide education about HPV vaccination, offer interactive environments to alleviate parental vaccine hesitancy, and ultimately help adolescents engage in HPV vaccine uptake." Digital health interventions have demonstrated the potential to positively influence parental vaccination decisions and i
"Potential vaccination barriers must be identified to inform initiatives aimed at increasing vaccine awareness, acceptance, and uptake." Concern from parents, decision-makers, and the media regarding the safety of recommended immunisations has increased in recent years.
The Netherlands hosts, as many other European countries, three population-based cancer screening programmes (CSPs). The overall uptake among these CSPs is high, but has decreased over recent years. Especially in highly urbanized regions the uptake rates tend to fall below the minimal effective rate of 70% set by the World Health Organization. Understanding the reasons underlying the decision of citizens to partake in a CPS are essential in order to optimize the current screening participation rates. The aim of this study was to explore the various perspectives concerning cancer screening among inhabitants of The Hague, a highly urbanized region of the Netherlands. A Q-methodology study was conducted to provide insight in the prevailing perspectives on partaking in CSPs. All respondents were inhabitants of the city of The Hague, the Netherlands. In an online application they ranked a set of 31 statements, based on the current available literature and clustered by the Integrated Change model, into a 9-column forced ranking grid according to level of agreement, followed by a short survey. Respondents were asked to participate in a subsequent interview to explain their ranking. By-person factor analysis was used to identify distinct perspectives, which were interpreted using data from the rankings and interviews. Three distinct perspectives were identified: 1). “Positive about participation”, 2). “Thoughtful about participation”, and 3). “Fear drives participation”. These perspectives provide insight into how potential respondents, living in an urbanized region in the Netherlands, decide upon partaking in CSPs. Since CSPs will only be effective when participation rates are sufficiently high, it is essential to have insight into the different perspectives among potential respondents concerning partaking in a CSP. This study adds new insights concerning these perspectives and suggests several ideas for future optimization of the CSPs.
Message Framing and COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Millennials in South India comminit.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comminit.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Aims and objectives: To identify final-year undergraduate students and new graduate nurses’ behavioural intentions towards medication safety across four countries. Background: Medication errors are a common and avoidable occurrence, being costly for not only patients but also for health systems and society. Design: A multi-site cross-sectional study. Methods: A self-administered survey was distributed to students and new graduate nurses in South Africa, India, Turkey and Australia. Descriptive statistics were calculated for all survey items. Multiple linear regressions were performed to predict behavioural intentions using the three Theory of Planned Behaviour constructs: attitudes, behavioural control and subjective norms. This study adheres to the STROBE guidelines. Results: Data were analysed for 432 students and 576 new graduate nurses. Across all countries, new graduate nurses reported significantly higher scores on all the TPB variables compared with student nurses. Attitudes towards medication management were found significantly and positively related to intention to practice safe medication management for both student and new graduate nurses. Total perceived behavioural control was significantly and negatively related to intention to practice safe medication management for students. Conclusion: Student and new graduate nurses showed favourable attitude, subjective norm, perceived behaviour control and intention in practising medication safety. However, differences in countries require further exploration on the factors influencing attitudes towards medication safety among student nurses and new nurse graduates. Relevance to clinical practice: Understanding student and new graduate nurses’ medication administration practices is important to inform strategies aimed at improving patient safety. The findings of this study highlight the need for an internationally coordinated approach to ensure safe medication administration by student and new graduate nurses.
Based on the traditional internal factor model, high environmental awareness should bring higher engagement in environmental practices. In reality, however, many studies have found no significant correlation between the two. To explain this, frontier research is focusing on what external factors influence environmental sustainability. As a typical example of such external factors, this article focuses on the innovation of Internet payment technology. Based on a survey of 623 individuals living across mainland China, we conduct path analysis, stepwise regression analysis, and a mediation test on Internet payment technology, environmental awareness, environmental protection practices, and demographics such as age, income, and sex. We find that Internet payment technology plays a significant mediator role between environmental awareness and environmental behaviors, and that demographics also affect sustainability. Internet payment technology can expand the range of ways in which consumers participate in environmental protection and encourage them to put more green practices through emotional and physical incentives. We thus demonstrate the positive impact of technological innovation on environmental sustainability and unfold the underlying mechanism. Besides providing a reference for other researchers, our study also proposes some applications relevant to the scientific community.
Parents' Attitudes, Beliefs and Uptake of the School-based Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination Program in Jakarta, Indonesia - A Quantitative Study comminit.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from comminit.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.