Effect of peer education on knowledge, attitude, and practice of HPV infection prevention among college students
Catégorie d'article: Original article
Publié en ligne: 16 déc. 2024
Pages: 427 - 433
Reçu: 20 janv. 2024
Accepté: 25 mars 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2024-0047
Mots clés
© 2024 Rong-Rong Zhang et al., published by Sciendo
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Objective
To explore the effect of peer education on improving the knowledge, attitude, practice level (KAP) to prevent human papilloma virus (HPV) infection among college students.
Methods
The knowledge, attitude/belief, and practice level of 536 grade I college students from a university in Shanghai were surveyed and analyzed using a self-designed questionnaire—the HPV Infection and Prevention KAP Questionnaire.
Results
Many college students heard about HPV vaccine (49.70% before peer education and 100% after peer education); however, few of them were vaccinated (2.82% before peer education and 5.23% after peer education). Knowledge, attitude/belied, and practice of HPV infection prevention were positively related (
Conclusions
Peer education could be used as a strategy in colleges to improve student’s KAP level of HPV infection prevention. College students may also be encouraged to spread their influence to society.