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Prisha, Palpunavam and Tan, Khong Sin and Lee, Chin Poo (2025) Health Belief Model Based Analysis of Factors Affecting HPV Screening and Vaccination Uptake Among Malaysian Women. In: 2025 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, ICoICT 2025, 30 July 2025 - 31 July 2025, Hybrid, Bandung.

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Abstract

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the sexually transmitted infections (STI) that causes cervical cancer. Various preventive strategies exist to curb HPV infection; however, negative beliefs and a low uptake rate prevail. Health belief model is the lens through which factors such as perceived susceptibility (PSU), perceived severity (PSE), health motivation (HM), perceived benefits (PBE), perceived barriers (PBA) and a mediator, HPV knowledge were studied. Methods: An online questionnaire was administered and a pre-test post-test control group design was employed where participants in the intervention group attempted the survey after completing the learning modules, which consists of five animated video lessons each with ten quiz questions, while control group attempted survey questions without prior information. Results: A total of 236 responses were recovered, in which (control = 31. 4% n = 37, intervention = 35. 6% n = 42)6% n = 42)6% n = 42)6% n = 42)6% n = 42)6% n = 42)6% n = 42)6% n = 42) participants have completed their screening sessions and (control=30.5% n=36, intervention=55.9% n=66) have taken vaccines. Meanwhile, 79.2% in the intervention group reported high awareness about HPV compared to control group 73.8%. In the control group, there was a significant correlation between health motivation and intention (HM → I = 0.000) and knowledge does not mediate significant effects on health motivation and intention (HM→ K→ I = 0.173). Upon exposure to intervention, susceptibility (PSU → I = 0.000) and barriers (PBA → I = 0.000) affected their intention to take HPV services. Malaysian Ministry of Health (MOH) need to be more sensitive to the barriers such as economic, time constraints and promote HPV services by conveying necessary information on cervical cancer among women. Overall, the findings will contribute to the development of effective strategies that will reduce incidence and encourage preventive behavior among Malaysian women.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Barriers, cervical cancer, eHealth, HPV, knowledge, motivation, screening, vaccination
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
Divisions:	Faculty of Business (FOB) Faculty of Information Science and Technology (FIST)
Depositing User:	Nurin Syazwani Azmi
Date Deposited:	03 Dec 2025 03:51
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2025 03:58
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/14941

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