Cent Eur J Public Health 2020, 28(3):178-186 | DOI: 10.21101/cejph.a5989

Comparison of opinions of Slovak and Czech female medical students on HPV vaccination

Jozef Záhumenský1, Petra Pšenková1, Alexandra Nadzámová1, Paula Drabiščáková1, Lukáš Hruban2, Vít Weinberger2, Marian Kacerovský3, Erik Dosedla4
1 Second Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Masaryk University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic
3 Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Pavel Jozef Šafárik, Hospital AGEL Košice-Šaca, Košice, Slovak Republic

Objectives: This study aims to identify the differences in the use of HPV vaccination between female medical students in the Czech and Slovak Republics and their possible causes.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional survey among female students of general medicine in all faculties of medicine in the Czech and Slovak Republics.

Results: We obtained 630 questionnaires from the Czech Republic and 776 questionnaires from the Slovak Republic. In the Czech Republic, 65.4% of female medical students underwent HPV vaccination, while in the Slovak Republic, the figure was 21.1%. In the Czech Republic, residency and religion of students did not influence their rate of vaccination. However, in the Slovak Republic, village residency with less than 5,000 inhabitants lowered the probability of vaccination with OR = 0.56 (95% CI: 0.38-0.84), and the Catholic religion lowered the probability of vaccination with OR = 0.40 (95% CI: 0.28-0.57). Czech students were informed about the possibility of vaccination by a paediatrician in 55.7% of cases, while the figure for Slovak students was 26.8%. In the Czech Republic, 75.7% of students participated in regular cervical oncologic screening, while in the Slovak Republic, the figure was 57.7%. Vaccination of relatives would be recommended by 86.5% and 80.5% of Czech and Slovak students, respectively.

Conclusions: The adoption of an oncologic prevention programme and the more extensive propagation by paediatricians are probably the medical reasons for the higher HPV vaccination among Czech students. Demographic factors - village residency and religion - are also important.

Keywords: HPV vaccination, cervical cancer prevention, medical students, survey

Received: October 5, 2019; Revised: July 23, 2020; Accepted: July 23, 2020; Published: September 30, 2020  Show citation

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Záhumenský J, Pšenková P, Nadzámová A, Drabiščáková P, Hruban L, Weinberger V, et al.. Comparison of opinions of Slovak and Czech female medical students on HPV vaccination. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2020;28(3):178-186. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a5989. PubMed PMID: 32997472.
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