HPV Vaccine Initiation and Completion Among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Adults, United States, 2014.

ABSTRACT: Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (NHPI) adults bear a disproportionate burden of certain human papillomavirus (HPV)-associated cancers. In 2015, data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) showed vaccination coverage among adults by racial and ethnic groups; however, coverage data for NHPI adults were unavailable. In this study, we estimated the initiation and completion of HPV vaccination and assessed the factors associated with vaccination among NHPI adults aged 18 to 26 years in the United States. We analyzed public data files from the 2014 NHPI NHIS (n = 1204). We specified sampling design parameters and fitted weighted logistic regression models to calculate the odds of HPV vaccine initiation. We developed a directed acyclic graph to identify a minimally sufficient set f

SUBMITTER: Gopalani SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8892586 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature