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School nurses’ attitudes towards and experiences of the Swedish school-based HPV vaccination programme – A repeated cross sectional study

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  • Maria Grandahl
  • Margareta Larsson
  • Tanja Tydén
  • Christina Stenhammar

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The aim was to investigate school nurses’ attitudes towards, and experiences of vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV), and compare the results with a similar study three years earlier. School nurses (n = 736) from all counties in Sweden completed a questionnaire in spring 2016, four years after the implementation of the national HPV vaccination programme, and three years after the previous survey. Overall, the school nurses had more favourable attitudes towards the HPV vaccination programme compared to the study in 2013 (p = 0.015). More than half of the nurses (n = 415, 56%) strongly agreed that boys should also be offered the vaccine (p

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  • Maria Grandahl & Margareta Larsson & Tanja Tydén & Christina Stenhammar, 2017. "School nurses’ attitudes towards and experiences of the Swedish school-based HPV vaccination programme – A repeated cross sectional study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(4), pages 1-12, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0175883
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175883
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