Announcements Versus Conversations to Improve HPV Vaccination Coverage: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT: Improving provider recommendations is critical to addressing low human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination coverage. Thus, we sought to determine the effectiveness of training providers to improve their recommendations using either presumptive "announcements" or participatory "conversations." In 2015, we conducted a parallel-group randomized clinical trial with 30 pediatric and family medicine clinics in central North Carolina. We randomized clinics to receive no training (control), announcement training, or conversation training. Announcements are brief statements that assume parents are ready to vaccinate, whereas conversations engage parents in open-ended discussions. A physician led the 1-hour, in-clinic training. The North Carolina Immunization Registry provided data on the primary trial

SUBMITTER: Brewer NT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5192091 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature