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Filter by:Subjects enrolled in this study are eligible for the seasonal influenza vaccine. The purpose of this research study is to figure out if increasing individuals' awareness of the benefits of herd immunity, specifically to the local pediatric oncology community, can improve vaccination uptake rates.
The purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a tool designed to help parents make decisions about childhood vaccines.
The human papillomavirus (HPV) causes 90% of cervical cancers and is implicated in multiple other cancers. The HPV vaccine can prevent the vast majority of these cancers, but it is underused in adolescents, especially among those within vaccine hesitant (VH) parents. The proposed research is to develop and pilot test a tailored, health communication intervention aimed to increase HPV vaccination among VH parents. The proposed research is innovative because no evidence-based health communication interventions target HPV VH parents, and we will use stakeholder engagement throughout this study. The research will add knowledge on how tailored education provided before a doctor's visit can play a role in improving HPV vaccination rates among underserved, VH parents.
Within low, middle, and upper income countries, low vaccine coverage results from both obstacles to vaccine access and low confidence in vaccine programs. Thus, it is critical to determine how best to enhance trust in vaccines as increasing numbers of vaccines are recommended for use. Even though the context accompanying the initial roll-out of a vaccine can have a large impact on people's perceptions of the vaccine and the corresponding disease, it is not clear how to best introduce a vaccine to increase public confidence and enhance uptake. The US roll-out of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine framed HPV as a sexually transmitted infection, which proved to be an impediment to efforts to increase vaccine uptake >10 years after its introduction. This study will use an educational experiment, where parents of children will be exposed to information about the HPV vaccination in different ways. Parents will be introduced to the HPV vaccine through different scenarios with varying emphases (i.e., age at vaccination, types of transmission, type of cancer prevention). The aim will be to determine how the framing of the HPV vaccination across several dimensions affects short-term willingness to receive it.
The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences and perceptions of District VI pediatric clinicians on parental vaccine hesitancy and vaccine refusal.