title: HPV Awareness, Knowledge and Vaccination Attitudes among Church-going African-American Women.
abstract: The purpose of this exploratory study was to improve understanding of the sociodemographic correlates of human papillomavirus (HPV) awareness, knowledge, and vaccination attitudes in a convenience sample of church-going, African-American women and how knowledge about HPV-related cancers relates to vaccination attitudes for girls and boys.
  
  
  
  Participants (N = 308) answered survey questions about HPV awareness, knowledge, and vaccination attitudes. Associations between variables were assessed using Bonferroni-adjusted chi-square tests and regression analyses.
  
  
  
  Younger age was associated with having heard of HPV and willingness to vaccinate a daughter or son in covariate-adjusted analyses. Younger age and greater education were associated with knowledge that HPV causes cervical cancer. A positive association existed between willingness to vaccinate a daughter or son based on knowledge of the number of cancers associated with HPV. Knowledge that HPV was related to non-cervical cancers was significantly associated with greater willingness to vaccinate sons.
  
  
  
  Knowledge that HPV causes multiple cancers is important to willingness to vaccinate a child. Education campaigns should emphasize that HPV is also related to non-cervical cancers. African-American women of older age and less education might benefit from church-based HPV educational campaigns.
authors: Assistant Professor, The University of Oklahoma, Department of Health and Exercise Science, Norman, OK.
authors: Sarah B
authors: SB
authors: Maness
authors: Associate Professor, Joint senior scientist, The University of Houston, Department of Psychological, Health, & Learning Sciences, Social Determinants/Health Disparities Lab, Houston, TX;, Email: Lrreitzel@uh.edu.
authors: Lorraine R
authors: LR
authors: Reitzel
authors: Graduate Student, The University of Texas School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Houston, TX.
authors: Kellie L
authors: KL
authors: Watkins
authors: Associate Professor, Joint senior scientist, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Health Disparities Research, Houston, TX.
authors: Lorna H
authors: LH
authors: McNeill
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000367:Age Factors; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013781:Texas; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines