
The purpose of this study was to examine factors predicting human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine acceptability among parents of adolescent girls in a rural area in Mysore district, India.Cross-sectional.Mysore, India.Parents of school-going adolescent girls.Parents completed a validated self-administered questionnaire.Parental willingness to vaccinate their daughters with HPV vaccine.Of the 831 parents who participated in this study, 664 (79.9%) were willing to vaccinate their daughter with HPV vaccine sometime soon if they were invited to receive it. Higher odds of parental willingness to vaccinate their daughters with HPV vaccine was observed among those who believed that HPV vaccine is safe (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 2.11; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.01-4.45); their daughter might become sexually active (aOR, 1.84; 95% CI, 1.08-3.13); they have support of other family members to vaccinate their daughter (aOR, 2.86; 95% CI, 1.47-5.57); and that HPV infection causes severe health problems (aOR, 1.64; 95% CI, 1.04-2.57). In contrast, parents who believed that there is low risk that their daughter will get cervical cancer (aOR, 0.52; 95% CI, 0.29-0.95); that the family will disapprove of getting their daughter vaccinated (aOR, 0.45; 95% CI, 0.22-0.76); that the injection might cause pain (aOR, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.31-0.89), and were older-age parents (aOR, 0.96; 95% CI, 0.93-0.99) had lower odds of willingness to vaccinate daughters with HPV vaccine.Acceptance of HPV vaccination for daughters was high among rural parents in Mysore, India. However, health education to reduce the belief that injection is painful and that daughters are at low risk to get cervical cancer is important to further improve parental HPV vaccine acceptability in Mysore. Public health education should target older-aged parents and extended family members.
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Adult, Parents, Rural Population, HPV, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Adolescent, Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data, 610, India, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms, Nuclear Family, Vaccination/psychology, Papillomavirus Infections/prevention & control, Uterine Cervical Neoplasms/prevention & control, vaccine, acceptability, Surveys and Questionnaires, 616, Odds Ratio, Humans, Papillomavirus Vaccines, Rural Population/statistics & numerical data, Students, Practice, Health Knowledge, Papillomavirus Infections, Vaccination, Middle Aged, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Students/psychology, Papillomavirus Vaccines/therapeutic use, Nuclear Family/psychology, Cross-Sectional Studies, Attitudes, Rural., Female, Parents/psychology, Mysore
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