Factors Associated with Willingness to the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccine Adoption among Unmarried Women in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Ting-I Liu, 劉庭伊
• Other Authors: Pei-An Liao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03840397274725838879

碩士 === 世新大學 === 經濟學研究所(含碩專班) === 103 === Cervical cancer is both the ten most common cause of cancer and the three most common cause of death from cancer in women. Cervical cancer is mainly caused by the virus called Human Papillomavirus (HPV). The virus spread through sexual contact. Treatment of cervical cancer not only affects the health of the patience herself but also put great financial and mental burden on the members in the family. The medical expenditure on cervical cancer is quite high. The early stage cervical cancer it is a high cure rate cancer. The main policy of government to prevent the cervical cancer now is by promoting female citizens to do Papanicolaou test (Pap smear) regularly and to take the HPV vaccine. However, Pap smear now is facing a difficulty to raise the screen rate, and Pap smear result sometimes has false result or human error in it and cause the delay of best treatment time. Therefore, prevention of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) by vaccine is far more important. Considering the importance of taking HPV vaccine to prevent the cervical cancer, this study does sampling from the latest research: Family and Fertility (2008, 10th), Population of Health and Research Center, Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare. This study use STATA to do the regression analysis by Probit model and Marginal effect. Dependent variables are the willingness of unmarried women to take the HPV vaccine and the willingness of married women to encourage the age 9-26 unmarried female family member to take HPV vaccine. Independent variables are social-economic status, health status, health behavior, health knowledge, and the frequency of using knowledge communication channels. The purpose of this study is to analysis the factors that influence the willingness of unmarried women to take HPV vaccine and also analysis the factors that influence the willingness of married women to encourage the age 9-26 unmarried female family member to take HPV vaccine. The result of this study shows a high correlation: the willingness of unmarried women to take HPV vaccine is highly related to the education status of interviewee, the family’s economic status of interviewee, BMI of interviewee, and if the interviewee ever heard of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Furthermore, the factors that influence the willingness of married women to encourage the age 9-26 unmarried female family member to take HPV vaccine are closely related to the family’s economic status, the inhabited area of the married woman lived before 12 years old, the smoking habit of married woman, and if the married woman ever heard of Human Papillomavirus ( HPV). The empirical result of this study could be a reference for the government when drafting the health care and medical service strategy, and also this result could be a basis for promoting HPV vaccine by the department concerned.