Abstract:

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a infectious, sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer in both women and men (servix cancer, anogenital cancer, penile cancer). The risk for both sexes to have HPV is at least 50 percent throughout their lifetime. The risk of HPV infection increases with beginning of sexual intercourse in the early age. Today, HPV vaccines have been developed for the purpose of preventing the development of HPV infection and related injury, as well as HPV vaccines that allow remission and regression of existing injury. However, the HPV vaccine rates are still low. The aim of this study is to determine the information status of doctors mothers about HPV vaccination, and to evaluate the factors affecting their own children and patients’ decision to vaccinate or not. Materials and Methods: This study has a cutting-edge identification feature and was applied to the 221 doctors who have a child, where the survey questions were filled by the participants through social media. The survey included demographic data, the information status of doctors about HPV vaccines, the thoughts of making HPV vaccines to their children, and the questions of whether they recommend HPV vaccines to their patients. The data in our study was assessed in a 95% confidence range and using the SPSS 21 statistical analysis program. In the tables are used frequencies and percentage values. The Ki-Kare test was also applied to the category data contained in cross tables. The findings: those who knew that "HPV vaccine is protective against cancer" were 90.14% (n=192). 64.36% (n=130) of those who know that "the HPV vaccine should be recommended to both girls and men" have observed a significant difference between the clusters of doctors in terms of their knowledge of this information (p=0,001). 46,51 percent (n=100), 21.40 percent (n=46) and 32.09 percent (n=69) were those who thought to take the HPV vaccine to their children. Only 53,0% of the girls (n = 53) thought of vaccinating, while only 21% of the boys (n = 21) thought of vaccinating. 26% of girls and boys (n = 26) thought about vaccination, while 34.78% (n = 16) did not think about vaccination. It has been found that child sex affects the idea of mothers to get HPV vaccine (p=0,03). In addition, there has been a meaningful difference between the state of consideration of taking the vaccine to the child and the state of recommendation of the vaccine to the patients (p=0,001).   Result: The important factors in giving parents the vaccine to their children are the confidence in the vaccine, the state of information about the vaccine and the recommendation of their doctors. The confidence in the vaccine will increase with the increase in doctors’ level of knowledge and recommending vaccination to their patients. Thus, the rise in vaccination rates and the development of HPV infection and related cancers can be significantly prevented.

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