Knowledge and attitude of adolescent girls and their mothers regarding cervical cancer: A community-based cross-sectional study
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BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in India. The mother's awareness about the symptoms and risk factors has a large impact on the daughter's knowledge and attitude. Mother and adolescent daughter duos were selected as the sample as they are the target population at risk for suffering from carcinoma cervix. Mothers are the prime information providers and in an excellent position to aware their adolescent daughters about cervical cancer. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to determine knowledge and attitude of adolescent girls and their mothers regarding cervical cancer and to find the association between the education of the mothers and their knowledge about risk factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 100 duos of adolescent daughters along with their mothers residing in Balmiki Basti (Delhi), using a predesigned, pretested, semi-structured interview schedule. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS-22 version. RESULTS: < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Study revealed a low-level knowledge about cervical cancer among adolescent daughters and their mothers. Therefore, there is an urgent need to empower the women by educating them on this issue. Furthermore, there is a need to encourage the mothers to communicate the right information to their adolescent daughters.
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Targeted educational programs demonstrated significant gains in vaccine intent and knowledge.
“Targeted educational programs demonstrated significant gains in vaccine intent and knowledge38,43.”
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The Results (page unavailable) report a statistically significant association between mothers’ educational attainment and knowledge of cervical-cancer risk factors. The Methods mention a health education package, but the paper does not report measured gains after that program or gains in vaccine intent. Thus, the significant knowledge finding offers only partial support for the claim. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredDespite educational interventions, a subset of participants remained hesitant, often citing concerns about vaccine cost, availability, or insufficient information from healthcare providers.
“Despite this, a subset of participants remained hesitant, often citing concerns about vaccine cost, availability, or insufficient information from healthcare providers31,32,38,43.”
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The Ethical considerations section (page unavailable) says participants received a health education package, but reports no post-intervention vaccine hesitancy. The Results and Discussion passages (page unavailable) address cervical-cancer knowledge, not concerns about vaccine cost, availability, or information from healthcare providers. Searches for those barriers and for vaccination attitudes after the intervention found no supporting passage in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.74)
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- Authors
- Ahlawat, P., Batra, N., Sharma, P., Kumar, S., & Kumar, A.
- Affiliations
- Indian Council of Medical Research (IN)
- Maulana Azad Medical College (IN)
- Corresponding author
- Ahlawat, Pooja
- Venue
- Journal of Mid-life Health
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 145
- ISSN
- 0976-7800 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6166420
- OpenAlex
- W2891711039
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- 11
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- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 0.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- cc-by-nc-sa
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- Journal of Mid-life Health (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Cervical Cancer and HPV Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Women's cancer prevention and management
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Keywords
- cervical cancer, adolescent girls, maternal knowledge, health knowledge and attitudes, cervical cancer risk factors, maternal education, health communication
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