Knowledge of Pregnant Adolescents about Human Papillomavirus.
Erika Zambrano TanakaSílvia Souza KamizakiSilvana Maria QuintanaRodolfo de Carvalho PacagnellaFernanda Garanhani SuritaPublished in: Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia (2019)
The pregnant adolescents composing the sample have shown to have knowledge about HPV. However, they do not prevent themselves from it appropriately, given that little more than half of the sample was vaccinated, had not reported an understanding that the use of preservatives and vaccination are effective means of prevention, and did not correlate HPV with uterine cervical cancer.