Volume : VII, Issue : VII, July - 2018

Knowledge, Attitude & Practices regarding Human Papilloma Virus infection AND its Vaccination among medical students of a tertiary care institute in Southern Rajasthan

Dr. Rajath Rao, Dr. Arun Singh, Dr. Rahul Prakash

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 AIMS:To determine the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice regarding awareness of Human papilloma virus, cervical cancer, its screening and

vaccination among the medical students. To know the attitude of medical students towards Premarital sexual behaviour.
METHODOLOGY:A cross sectional survey on 150 medical undergraduate students and interns attending clinical postings in RNT Medical
College and MB hospital, Udaipur after giving preformed semi structured questionnaire.
RESULTS: Majority( 98%) of students had heard about HPV. The scores of knowledge, attitude and practices were 67.4%, 70.9%, and
58%respectively.24.7% students showed negative attitude towards premarital sexual behaviour.62.7% students not willing to pay for the vaccine.
CONCLUSION: Overall knowledge of the students regarding HPV is good, showing positive attitude towards the vaccinations but the same is not
reflected in their practices and this is statistically significant.

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Dr. Rajath Rao, Dr. Arun Singh, Dr. Rahul Prakash, Knowledge, Attitude & Practices regarding Human Papilloma Virus infection AND its Vaccination among medical students of a tertiary care institute in Southern Rajasthan, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-7 | July-2018


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