Abstract
Abstract Objective: Uncover knowledge and attitudes of girls, mothers, teachers and health professionals about human papillomavirus and vaccination. Method: A qualitative study carried out by means of focus groups in public elementary schools and health units of Sanitary District IV from Recife-PE, Brazil, between June and July 2015. The sample was six schoolchildren, ten adolescents, nine mothers, ten teachers, thirteen health professionals and seven community health agents. Speeches were analyzed with the technique of Discourse of Collective Subject (DSC), using the Qualiquantisoft, version 1.3c software. Results: Four categories emerged from the DSC: controversial understanding of HPV; transmissibility of HPV virus; adequate knowledge about the vaccine; and education in health. Final considerations: Different levels of knowledge - doubts and misconceptions - about the subject were unveiled. However, attitudes were favorable to adhesion to immunization. Realities that need to be problematized in the educational practice of nurses.
Highlights
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a DNA-virus, being the types 16 and 18 considerated of high risk to development of cervical cancer and other anogenital cancers.[1,2] In Brazil, mortality by this neoplasm reached 5.727 deaths in 2015.3 Tetravalent vaccine against the virus is a current strategy of cervical cancer prevention in the country, adopted since 2014 in the public health system
Undergraduate health professionals were an average of 34,1 years old, ten were female, five were married, six had specialization, seven acted like Family Strategy nurses, nine mentioned having monthly family income of five or more minimum wage
HPV can provoke lesions in the anogenital region, being associated with the development of cervical cancer and other cancers in that region.[2]. This is an issue known, there are still contradictions within the lesions' typography ocasionated by the virus
Summary
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is a DNA-virus, being the types 16 and 18 considerated of high risk to development of cervical cancer and other anogenital cancers.[1,2] In Brazil, mortality by this neoplasm reached 5.727 deaths in 2015.3 Tetravalent vaccine against the virus is a current strategy of cervical cancer prevention in the country, adopted since 2014 in the public health system. Unfamiliarity about the security and effectiveness of the product interfere in adeherence of vaccination, because parents don't vaccinate their daughters.[6] Beyond misinformation, taboos prevent discussion about sexuality, the denial that girls will become sexually active and preocupation with the fact of those vaccinated adopt sexual risky behaviors constitute barriers to immunization against HPV.[7]
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