Awareness on cervical cancer and HPV vaccine and acceptance of vaccination amongst the female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UiTM Puncak Alam / Afizah Arsad

There is a growing concern about individuals' awareness and willingness to receive the HPV vaccine since the young women are much dependant on the parents' acceptance of the vaccination. The aim of this study is to determine the awareness, initiative and willingness against cervical cancer...

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Main Author: Arsad, Afizah
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73692/1/73692.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.736922023-03-24T00:55:53Z Awareness on cervical cancer and HPV vaccine and acceptance of vaccination amongst the female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UiTM Puncak Alam / Afizah Arsad 2015 Arsad, Afizah Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Cancer There is a growing concern about individuals' awareness and willingness to receive the HPV vaccine since the young women are much dependant on the parents' acceptance of the vaccination. The aim of this study is to determine the awareness, initiative and willingness against cervical cancer and HPV vaccination among female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UITM Puncak Alam. This is a cross sectional study with convenient sampling method. A validated questionnaire was used for data collection instrument. A total number of 444 female students participated in this study with more than half (68.1%) agreed that cervical cancer can be prevented by HPV vaccination. Female students were found to have a satisfactory level of awareness and willingness with total scores of over 70%. 2015 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73692/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73692/1/73692.pdf text en public masters Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Pharmacy Abd Aziz, Noorizan
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Abd Aziz, Noorizan
topic Public health
Hygiene
Preventive Medicine
Cancer
spellingShingle Public health
Hygiene
Preventive Medicine
Cancer
Arsad, Afizah
Awareness on cervical cancer and HPV vaccine and acceptance of vaccination amongst the female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UiTM Puncak Alam / Afizah Arsad
description There is a growing concern about individuals' awareness and willingness to receive the HPV vaccine since the young women are much dependant on the parents' acceptance of the vaccination. The aim of this study is to determine the awareness, initiative and willingness against cervical cancer and HPV vaccination among female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UITM Puncak Alam. This is a cross sectional study with convenient sampling method. A validated questionnaire was used for data collection instrument. A total number of 444 female students participated in this study with more than half (68.1%) agreed that cervical cancer can be prevented by HPV vaccination. Female students were found to have a satisfactory level of awareness and willingness with total scores of over 70%.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Arsad, Afizah
author_facet Arsad, Afizah
author_sort Arsad, Afizah
title Awareness on cervical cancer and HPV vaccine and acceptance of vaccination amongst the female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UiTM Puncak Alam / Afizah Arsad
title_short Awareness on cervical cancer and HPV vaccine and acceptance of vaccination amongst the female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UiTM Puncak Alam / Afizah Arsad
title_full Awareness on cervical cancer and HPV vaccine and acceptance of vaccination amongst the female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UiTM Puncak Alam / Afizah Arsad
title_fullStr Awareness on cervical cancer and HPV vaccine and acceptance of vaccination amongst the female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UiTM Puncak Alam / Afizah Arsad
title_full_unstemmed Awareness on cervical cancer and HPV vaccine and acceptance of vaccination amongst the female students in Centre of Foundation Studies (CFS) UiTM Puncak Alam / Afizah Arsad
title_sort awareness on cervical cancer and hpv vaccine and acceptance of vaccination amongst the female students in centre of foundation studies (cfs) uitm puncak alam / afizah arsad
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Pharmacy
publishDate 2015
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/73692/1/73692.pdf
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