Increasing Women's Knowledge about HPV Using BERT Text Summarization: An Online Randomized Study.

ABSTRACT: Despite the availability of online educational resources about human papillomavirus (HPV), many women around the world may be prevented from obtaining the necessary knowledge about HPV. One way to mitigate the lack of HPV knowledge is the use of auto-generated text summarization tools. This study compares the level of HPV knowledge between women who read an auto-generated summary of HPV made using the BERT deep learning model and women who read a long-form text of HPV. We randomly assigned 386 women to two conditions: half read an auto-generated summary text about HPV (n = 193) and half read an original text about HPV (n = 193). We administrated measures of HPV knowledge that consisted of 29 questions. As a result, women who read the original text were more likely to correctl

SUBMITTER: Bitar H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9265758 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature