Correlation between demographic characteristics and Human Papillomavirus vaccination : Analysis of one city

• Main Authors: Peng,Chih-Yin, 彭之音
• Other Authors: Chen,Kai-Lun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gdbwws

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 公共衛生學系碩士班 === 105 === There are about 530,000 cases of cervical cancer in the world each year. The incidence of cervical cancer can be used as a reference indicator for national health promotion policies. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, the world's first cancer prevention vaccine, has been developed and used by many countries as primary prevention strategy for cervical cancer. In Taiwan, the central government has not yet included HPV vaccines before the routine vaccination. Some local governments-including New Taipei City- have used their own budget providing free HPV vaccine to their target population. A correlation analysis was conducted to understand the relationship between regional factors and HPV vaccination in New Taipei City in 2011. According to the results, 77.07% of the students were vaccinated, 75.06% completed three doses of vaccines. Nearly a quarter (22.93%) of the students did not participate in the vaccination program. Once they agreed to vaccinate, the completion rate was quite high, reaching 97.81%. Then the Spearman correlation coefficient was used to analyze the relationship between the vaccination rates and the regional factors. However, the incompletion rates were significantly correlated with the regional factors. The lower the proportion of the religious population in the region, the higher the proportion of the population above the high schools and the higher degree of urbanization, the higher the incompletion rates (p <0.05). This study compares and analyzes the rates of vaccination in each district of New Taipei City. In view of the different regional factors, this study puts forward the strategy of raising the vaccination rates: the school parents' association and the school teachers should join the medical professionals to understand more about the vaccination; the school health education teachers should teach the class knowledge about HPV prevention; the cooperation and support of religious groups should be pursued.