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HPV Awareness, Knowledge and Attitudes among Older African-American Women

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Objective: To assess correlates of human papillomavirus (HPV) awareness, knowledge, and attitudes among older, church-going African-American women. Methods: Participants (N = 759), aged 40-80, answered survey questions about HPV awareness, knowledge, and attitudes toward vaccination of adolescent daughters. Associations between participant characteristics and HPV items were assessed using chi-square tests and logistic regression analyses. Results: Younger age, higher education, a family history of cancer, and less spirituality were each associated with HPV awareness individually, and when considered jointly in a single model (p values <.038). Higher education was related to HPV knowledge (p = .006). Conclusions: African-American women of older age, less education, no family history of cancer, and/or higher spirituality might benefit from targeted church-based HPV educational campaigns.

Keywords: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN; CHURCH; HPV

Document Type: Research Article

Affiliations: 1: The University of Texas School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Houston, TX, USA 2: The University of Houston, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology, Houston, TX, USA. [email protected] 3: Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA 4: Department of Health Disparities Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA

Publication date: 01 March 2015

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