Multimodal Counseling Interventions: Effect on Human Papilloma Virus Vaccination Acceptance.

ABSTRACT: Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine was developed to reduce HPV-attributable cancers, external genital warts (EGW), and recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. Adolescent HPV vaccination series completion rates are less than 40% in the United States of America, but up to 80% in Australia and the United Kingdom. Population-based herd immunity requires 80% or greater vaccination series completion rates. Pro-vaccination counseling facilitates increased vaccination rates. Multimodal counseling interventions may increase HPV vaccination series non-completers' HPV-attributable disease knowledge and HPV-attributable disease prophylaxis (vaccination) acceptance over a brief 14-sentence counseling intervention. An online, 4-group, randomized controlled trial, with 260 or more participants per group,

SUBMITTER: Nwanodi O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5746720 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature