Co-design as a participatory approach for enhancing HPV health literacy among youths: a program evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite decades of vaccine availability and the potential consequences of infection, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among youth in the United States remains below herd immunity threshold. In response to suboptimal HPV vaccination rates the Vaccine Literacy Campaign (VLC) implemented a five-week series of HPV vaccination education co-design workshops to engage youth in creating peer vaccine communication. The co-design cohort included thirteen 16 to18-year-olds recruited from a community organization. The goals of the pilot were two-fold: 1) engage participants in co-design activities to co-create resource that promote health literacy, and 2) increase youth confidence and health literacy in relation to HPV vaccination.

Methods

Each co-design session was eva

SUBMITTER: Dennehy J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12323004 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature