Health care professionals and adolescent vaccination

Zimet, Gregory D.

doi:10.4161/hv.28525

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“…Ideally, such strategies would result in the majority of providers giving "strong" recommendations as a matter of routine, especially to 11-12 year olds for whom the vaccine is preferentially recommended. 8,9 "Provider communication" about vaccines can describe many forms of conveying information including: individual discussions with the provider during the clinic visit, officebased informational campaigns such as wall posters, pamphlets or mailed information, and electronic communication such as email or text messages, or preferred web-based educational resources. Despite increased recognition of the importance of provider communication about vaccines, there is a paucity of research describing the communication modalities currently used by providers, or of new methods of communication that may be preferred by patients and parents, but are not used currently.…”

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Parents’ perceptions of provider communication regarding adolescent vaccines

Dempsey

Pyrzanowski

Lockhart

et al. 2016

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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Strong provider recommendations for adolescent vaccines are critical for achieving high vaccination levels. However, little is known about parents' preferred provider communication strategies for adolescent vaccines in general, and for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines specifically. We performed a cross-sectional survey of 800 parents of 9-14 year olds in April 2014 to assess current adolescent vaccine communication practices by providers, parents' preferred HPV vaccine-specific communication strategies, and the association of these two outcomes with experiential, attitudinal and demographic characteristics. Among the 356 parents in the study (response rate 48%), HPV vaccines were reported as less likely to have been "very strongly" recommended by their adolescent's provider (39%) than other adolescent-targeted vaccines (45%-59%, <0.05 for all comparisons). Receiving a very strong recommendation for HPV vaccines was associated with a higher likelihood of vaccine receipt (71% versus 39%, p<0.001), or among those not yet vaccinated, increased likelihood of positive vaccination intentions (82% vs. 60%, p = 0.015). Nearly all parents (87%) reported that, if available, they would use a website providing personalized HPV vaccine-related materials before their adolescent's next check-up, and other technology-based communications were also endorsed by the majority of parents. From these data we conclude that parents received weaker recommendations for HPV vaccines than other adolescent vaccines, and that most parents want additional HPV vaccine-related materials, preferably delivered using a variety of technology-based modalities which is not their providers' current practice.

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Parents’ perceptions of provider communication regarding adolescent vaccines

Dempsey

Pyrzanowski

Lockhart

et al. 2016

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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“…In fact, a recent editorial asserts that the only study testing a providerfocused intervention explored decision support, not education. 12 The objective of this study was to fill this gap in the literature by assessing whether a brief structured presentation on HPV and the HPV vaccine could increase baseline knowledge among physicians, other healthcare workers, and medical students.…”

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A brief educational intervention increases providers' human papillomavirus vaccine knowledge

Berenson¹,

Rahman

Hirth

et al. 2015

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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Recommendation by a healthcare provider is critical to increase human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake in the US. However, current deficits in providers' knowledge of HPV and its vaccine are not fully understood and interventions to amend knowledge gaps are untested. To determine whether attending a structured presentation could increase provider knowledge of the HPV vaccine, we assessed knowledge levels of physicians, non-physician healthcare workers, and medical students before and after attending a 30-minute lecture held between October 2012 and June 2014. Paired t-test and McNemar's test were used to compare knowledge scores and the proportion of correct responses for each question, respectively. Multiple linear regression analyses were performed to examine correlates of baseline knowledge and change in knowledge scores post-intervention. A total of 427 participants, including 75 physicians, 208 medical students, and 144 nurses or other healthcare workers, attended one of 16 presentations and responded to both pre-test and post-test surveys. Baseline knowledge was low among all groups, with scores higher among older participants and physicians/medical students. On average, knowledge scores significantly improved from 8 to 15 after the presentation (maximum possible score 16) (P < .001), irrespective of specialty, race/ethnicity, gender, and age. Although lower at baseline, knowledge scores of younger participants and non-physician healthcare workers (e.g., nurses, physician assistants (PAs), nursing students) improved the most of all groups. We conclude that a brief, structured presentation increased HPV knowledge among a variety of healthcare workers, even when their baseline knowledge was low.

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“…[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] This work has laid the foundation for more recent research aimed at developing and evaluating interventions to increase adolescent vaccination. [24][25][26] These studies have centered primarily on HPV and influenza vaccines, given their lower coverage levels. This review focuses on a selection of recent (from 2006 to present) intervention studies for improving adolescent vaccination.…”

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