Health care decision making by mothers for their adolescent daughters regarding the quadrivalent HPV vaccine.

ABSTRACT:

Study objective

In this study we sought to understand the predictors of a mother's decision (behavior) to vaccinate her daughter with the initial dose of the HPV vaccine.

Design

This prospective, cross sectional study involved a convenience sample of 68 mother-daughter dyads recruited to test the hypothesis that the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) variables (attitudes toward vaccine, perception of others' opinions, and perceived difficulty in obtaining vaccine) would explain a mother's decision to consent for her daughter to receive the first dose of the HPV vaccine.

Main outcome measures

Mothers and daughters independently completed survey instruments that measure the variables of the TPB (attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control). Instruments al

SUBMITTER: Hertweck SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4474606 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature