Perception regarding HPV vaccination among the students of medical university in Malaysia

Abstract

Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the most important cause of cervical cancer that is infected among young and sexually active individuals and rated as third most common cancer. The aim of this research was to determine the perception regarding HPV vaccination among the MBBS students of UniKL RCMP. Descriptive cross-sectional study was done among 207 respondents from MBBS students of UniKL RCMP where a set of questionnaire was given that contains 38 questions. The sections were assessed their socio demographic input, knowledge, attitude and practice scores respectively. Descriptive statistics in terms of frequency and percentage, and cross tabulation were used to analyze the association of knowledge, attitude and practice. Pearson chi square was used to test the hypothesis. There was no association between gender and knowledge regarding HPV vaccination and between year of study and attitude regarding the HPV vaccination. However, gender had a statistical significance with attitude and was also a statistical significance between year of study and knowledge on HPV vaccination. It was concluded from the results that gender does not play a role in knowledge regarding HPV vaccination, but year of study does. However, gender plays a role in attitude on HPV vaccination.