Women's HPV Education and Its Effects on Knowledge Levels, HPV Screening Behaviors, and HPV Vaccination Uptake: An Interventional Education Study
Type of Study: This study was planned to be an observational study. Purpose of the Study: To evaluate the impact of HPV education given to women on their knowledge levels and HPV screening and vaccination.The main question\[s\] it aims to answer \[is/are\]: H1: There is a difference in the mean Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Knowledge Scale score between the intervention group women who participated in Human Papillomavirus (HPV) education and the control group women. H2: There is a difference between the intervention group women and the control group women in terms of their participation in HPV screening tests. H2: There is a difference between the intervention group women and the control group women in terms of their HPV vaccination status. Participants Participants will be assigned to a control and intervention group. Online training will be provided to the intervention group, and the results of the training will be reported.
• Being female
• Women aged 18-35 years
• Ability to speak and understand Turkish at a level sufficient to communicate with the researcher
• Having the technical equipment necessary to participate in a video interview
• No diagnosis of HPV positivity
• Not having received the HPV vaccine
• Not having undergone HPV DNA/Pap smear testing in the past 5 years
• No diagnosis of cervical cancer
• Voluntary willingness to participate in the study
• No diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder