Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Concerning Human Papilloma Virus Infection and its Health Effects among Rural Women, Karnataka, South India
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BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is one of the commonest cancers among women all over the world. The association of cervical cancer with human papilloma virus (HPV) is well established. Knowledge about the causal relationship between HPV and cervical cancer is important to make appropriate, evidence-based health care choices. In this context we conducted a community based study among women about the knowledge, attitude and practice about HPV infections and their health effects. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross sectional interview based house to house survey was conducted with a validated data collection tool covering sociodemographic factors, knowledge, attitude and practice about HPV and its health effects, among 1020 women from a rural village, Perdoor, in Udupi district, Karnataka, India in 2013-14. RESULTS: The mean age of participants was 38.9 years (SD=12.6). Study participants showed a high literacy rate (85.7%). Only 2.4% of sexually exposed women had undergone Pap smear testing. Partners of 4.4%women had undergone circumcision and they belonged to the Muslim community. Male condom usage was reported by 26 women (2.6%). However, none of the participants had heard of HPV and its health effects. CONCLUSIONS: This community based study found complete ignorance about HPV among rural South Indian women in spite of a high literacy level.
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Knowledge is likely even poorer amongst less educated women and women from rural areas.
“Knowledge is likely even poorer amongst less educated women and women from rural areas [22–25].”
From Acceptability of HPV vaccination for cervical cancer prevention amongst emerging adult women in rural Mysore, India: a mixed-methods study (2024) · cites this paper as [25]
The Results and Abstract report that none of the women surveyed in a rural Karnataka village had heard of HPV, supporting the rural-women portion. The Discussion says HPV awareness was not correlated with education level in this study, so this paper does not support the claim that knowledge is poorer among less educated women. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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Ramavath, K. K., & Olyai, R. (2013) · The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology of India · doi:10.1007/s13224-013-0413-3 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
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Coursey, K., Muralidhar, K., Srinivas, V., Jaykrishna, P., Begum, F., Ningaiah, N., Lee, S.-J., & Madhivanan, P. (2024) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-024-19485-8 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
“Knowledge is likely even poorer amongst less educated women and women from rural areas [22–25].”
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- Authors
- Sabeena, S., Bhat, P. V., Kamath, V., Aswathyraj, S., & Arunkumar, G.
- Affiliations
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education (IN)
- Melaka Manipal Medical College (IN)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
- Published
- 2015-07-13
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 5053-5058
- ISSN
- 1513-7368 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W875989358
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 1.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Greater South Information System
- Funders
- Indian Council of Medical Research (File no.5/8/7/15/2010/ECD-I, 5/8/7/15/2010-ECD-I)
- 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 › Medicine › Surgery › Genital Health and Disease
- Keywords
- human papillomavirus, HPV knowledge, cervical cancer, rural women, knowledge, attitudes and practices, Pap smear screening, male circumcision, male condom use, health literacy
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Attitude to Health, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, India, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Male, Mass Screening, Middle Aged, Prognosis, Rural Population, Vaginal Smears, Women's Health, Papillomaviridae, Papillomavirus Infections, Papillomavirus Vaccines, Young Adult, Papanicolaou Test
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