Changes in HPV vaccine hesitancy and influencing factors among female university students in China: A national repeated study
Peng Zhang, Xichen Tong, Xing Chen, Yijia Feng, Luying Zhang · 2026
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Zhang and colleagues report a 2026 study of vaccine hesitancy for the HPV vaccine among female university students in China. The team ran two large national online surveys, in 2022 and 2025, and matched the samples so the years could be compared fairly.
Hesitancy more than doubled between the surveys, rising from under one in eleven students to over one in five, even though knowledge about HPV improved and exposure to negative claims fell. What dropped was belief that the vaccine is needed, along with trust in health workers and in both home-made and imported vaccines. Students who saw the vaccine as needed, who had a health worker's advice, or who had paid for other vaccines themselves were less hesitant. Facts alone do not hold trust; clear need and trusted voices do.
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| CREATOR | Peng Zhang, Xichen Tong, Xing Chen, Yijia Feng, Luying Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |