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Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde

versão impressa ISSN 1679-4974versão On-line ISSN 2337-9622

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MANOEL, André Luciano et al. Evaluation of knowledge about the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and its vaccination among Community Health Agents in the municipality of Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil, in 2014. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2017, vol.26, n.2, pp.399-404. ISSN 1679-4974.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/s1679-49742017000200017.

OBJECTIVE:

to evaluate the knowledge of Community Health Agents (CHA) about the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and its vaccination.

METHODS:

this is a cross-sectional study with CHA who worked in Tubarão-SC, Brazil, in 2014; data were collected through an evaluation tool about HPV and its vaccination, validated for English language and translated and adapted into Portuguese.

RESULTS:

124 CHA participated in this study; all of them had already heard about HPV, but only 25.0% had heard about HPV testing; 72.6% answered correctly less than 70.0% of the questions; those who answered correctly more than 70.0% were, in general, younger than the other CHA (p=0.010).

CONCLUSION:

CHA demonstrated little knowledge on HPV, which may affect their work as multipliers in the prevention of diseases and in education in health.

Palavras-chave : Papilomaviridae; Papillomavirus Vaccines; Family Health Strategy; Community Health Workers; Epidemiology, Descriptive.

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