Human papillomavirus – a health education action at basic school

• Type: International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2009

Authors

Paulo Santos (Author) FMUP; Alberto Hespanhol (Author) FMUP; Maria Luciana Couto (Author) FMUP

Conference International

15th Wonca Europe Conference

Basel, Switzerland, 16–19 September 2009

Indexing

ISI Web of Science

Pubmed / Medline

Scientific classification

FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Other medical sciences

CORDIS: Health sciences > Medical sciences > Medicine > Family medicine

Other information

Abstract (EN): Introduction: The human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in adolescents and young adults. Recently one new vaccine was disposable in market and in Portugal it has been integrated in National Immunization Program. Aim: Our purpose was to transmit information about HPV to promote the voluntary vaccination for HPV in students of 8th year at a basic school. Description: After a bibliographic review to establish the state of art on our objectives, we prepared and applied a non-validated questionnaire to 8th year students of a basic school of Matosinhos, Oporto. Then we built a health education action adjusted to their standard of Knowledge. This action took place in 2008, November at that school and consisted in three parts: an oral presentation, a video presentation, and a pamphlet distributed to students. The same questionnaire was applied by the end of action to easure the efficacy of our presentation.We used qui-square to compare partial results of tests and Mann-Whitney U test to compare the global mean. Results: 129 boys and girls (M/F = 61/68) with mean age of 13 years old had participated in this action. By the end of our action the global percentage of correct answers to questionnaire raised from 27.4% to 71.1% (p <0.01). This improvement was also true to all the topics present in questionnaire. The Knowledge of existing a vaccine raised from 32.3 to 96.9% (p <0.01) and that vaccine was free and disposable at local Health Center raised from 23.6 to 91,3% (p <0.01). Conclusion: Although we can’t say that this action will have a repercussion at immunization coverage, the results permit to conclude that our health education action was successful on transmitting information, leading this population on a better stage of knowledge.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 207

ISBN: 1424-7860