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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Prathima Institute of Medical Sciences</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Perspectives in Medical Research</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2348-229X</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">2348-1447</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47799/pimr.1203.05</article-id>
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          <bold id="strong-c3e52990e89c45d78e9cb6b033be6f21">Impact of Health Education on Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Human Papilloma Virus and its Vaccination </bold>
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            <surname>Ramakrishna</surname>
            <given-names>Santhosh</given-names>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name id="n-834f142573bd">
            <surname>Anjum</surname>
            <given-names>Waseem</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name id="n-3c1d85e90f17">
            <surname>Radhakrishna</surname>
            <given-names>Veerabhadra</given-names>
          </name>
          <email>vbrps2016@gmail.com</email>
          <xref id="x-afdc6a702f05" rid="a-75a5bbb6feaf" ref-type="aff">3</xref>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name id="n-826e16bbc157">
            <surname>Kudthni</surname>
            <given-names>Ravi</given-names>
          </name>
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          <name id="n-2c0aa360abb7">
            <surname>Vishwanath</surname>
            <given-names>Pooja</given-names>
          </name>
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        <aff id="a-77769a2c9839">
          <institution>Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Akash Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre</institution>
          <addr-line>Bengaluru</addr-line>
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        <aff id="a-cc65d77261bc">
          <institution>Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Chamarajanagar Institute of Medical Sciences,</institution>
          <addr-line>Yadapura</addr-line>
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        <aff id="a-75a5bbb6feaf">
          <institution>Consultant, Department of Pediatric Surgery,  Manipal Hospitals</institution>
          <addr-line>Bengaluru</addr-line>
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        <aff id="a-0ef771caf2b4">
          <institution>Professor, Department of Pharmacology,  Viswabharathi Medical College and General Hospital</institution>
          <addr-line> Kurnool, A.P.</addr-line>
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        <aff id="a-21a13a0d8b43">
          <institution>Junior Resident, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Shivamogga Institute of Medical Sciences</institution>
          <addr-line> Shivamogga, Karnataka</addr-line>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2024</year>
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      <volume>12</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>22</fpage>
      <lpage>28</lpage>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>17</day>
          <month>8</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>10</day>
          <month>9</month>
          <year>2024</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>©2023 (Santhosh Ramakrishna) et al. This is an open-access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited.</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
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        <title id="abstract-title-c6bc9b9d68ce4f46bb034da7ef56ac53">Abstract</title>
        <p id="paragraph-de0547c8fea345309101664600caed4c"><bold id="strong-384d01a86d734f7b886c7c2848c07639">Background:</bold><bold id="strong-63358ca0854648ceb2fd041178e94a4c"> </bold>Despite the recommendation, the rate of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine uptake is poor in developing countries. The possible reasons for this could be limited knowledge, poor acceptance, safety concerns, cost of the vaccine, and lack of awareness. Hence, a study was conducted to determine the effect of health education on knowledge, attitude, and practice toward HPV infection and its vaccination.<bold id="strong-d8031bf497f3427d86588eeb7012037b">Methods:</bold><bold id="strong-829abab8db7b425fba6612ac886de9e2"> </bold>An interventional study was conducted in the Tumkur district of India amongst female students studying in pre-university colleges. A questionnaire was provided to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and practice about HPV infection and vaccination before and after health education.<bold id="strong-58862e6d3fdd43f99c4afd9b00bb0368">Results:</bold><bold id="strong-86004462d0a44dfab362f95e3d3cb7c5"> </bold>After the health education, awareness about the effects of HPV and the mode of transmission of HPV increased from 62% to 71% (p&lt;0.001) and 12% to 41% (p&lt;0.001) respectively. Health education also increased knowledge about the availability of vaccination against HPV (34% to 87%; p&lt;0.001), the population at risk for HPV infection (16% to 35%; p&lt;0.001), the ideal age group for HPV vaccination (45% to 90%; p&lt;0.001), and the overall knowledge score (5.6/17 to 12/17). Health education improved the willingness to pay for the vaccination from 34% to 56% (p&lt;0.001) and the willingness to recommend others to vaccinate from 61% to 89% (p&lt;0.001). <bold id="strong-8a75b87692314320ba1b804d1e321c70">Conclusion:</bold>The health education increased awareness about the symptomatology, mode of transmission, population-at-risk, and the effects of HPV infection. Health education also improved the willingness to pay for the vaccination and willingness to recommend others to vaccinate against HPV.</p>
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        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Attitude</kwd>
        <kwd>Human papilloma virus</kwd>
        <kwd>Health education</kwd>
        <kwd>Knowledge</kwd>
        <kwd>Practice</kwd>
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      <funding-group>
        <funding-statement>None</funding-statement>
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