Authors: Tomomi EgawaTakata Yutaka Ueda Yusuke Tanaka Akiko Morimoto Satoshi Kubota Asami Yagi Yoshito Terai Masahide Ohmichi Tomoyuki Ichimura Toshiyuki Sumi Hiromi Murata Hidetaka Okada Hidekatsu Nakai Masaki Mandai Kiyoshi Yoshino Tadashi Kimura Junko Saito Risa Kudo Masayuki Sekine Takayuki Enomoto Yorihiko Horikoshi Tetsu Takagi Kentaro Shimura
Publish Date: 2016/03/11
Volume: 21, Issue: 5, Pages: 962-968
Abstract
Cervical cancer and its precancerous lesions caused by human papilloma virus HPV are steadily increasing in women in Japan In comparison with women in other resourcerich countries young women in Japan have a dismally low screening rate for cervical cancer Our preliminary research has shown that 20yearold women in Japan usually ask their mothers for advice regarding their initial cervical cancer screening The objective of our current research is to determine the social factors among mothers in Japan that are causing them to give advice to their daughters regarding the HPV vaccine and cervical cancer screeningThe survey’s targets were mothers who had 20yearold daughters We recruited respondents from the roster of a commercial internet survey panel We analyzed for correlations between a mother’s knowledge concerning cervical cancer her recent cancer screening history and the advice she gave to her daughter regarding cervical cancer screeningWe obtained 618 valid answers to the survey Compared with mothers who did not get screening mothers who had cervical cancer screening had significantly more knowledge about cervical cancer and its screening p 005 The daughters of mothers with recent screening had received HPV vaccination more often than those of mothers without recent screening p = 0018 Mothers with recent screening histories tended more often to encourage their daughters to have cervical cancer screening p 005 When mothers were properly educated concerning cervical cancer and its screening they were significantly more likely than before to recommend that their daughters have it p 00001In young Japanese women given the important role their mothers have in their lives it is probable that we could improve their cervical cancer screening rate significantly by giving their mothers better medical information and a chance to experience cervical cancer screening for themselvesWe would like to thank Dr G S Buzard for his constructive critique and editing of our manuscript We also deeply appreciate the technical help of Ms Hazuki Abe and Ms Kanako Sakiyama who are employed at Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Osaka University Graduate School of MedicineAuthors Yutaka Ueda and Takayuki Enomoto have received lecture fees and research funding from Merck Sharp and Dohme MSD KK They have also received research funding from GlaxoSmithKline GSK KK/Japan Vaccine to conduct a different study Yutaka Ueda received an advisory fee from MSD Tadashi Kimura received lecture fees from MSD KK and GSK KK/Japan Vaccine
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