Teaching It Forward: Educating Parents About HPV/HPV Vaccine

Abstract

BackgroundHuman papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are available to prevent HPV-associated cancers. However, parents are reluctant to make the decision to immunize their children. Nationally, HPV vaccination rates remain low.ObjectiveThe objectives were to improve parents' attitudes and knowledge about HPV/HPV vaccine, increase parental intent to vaccinate, and increase HPV vaccination rates in a primary care office.MethodsA one-group, pretest/posttest design was used to assess participants' attitude, knowledge, and intent to vaccinate before and after viewing an HPV educational video. Pre–post project HPV vaccination rates were compared.ResultsParticipants' attitudes toward HPV/HPV vaccine improved while knowledge increased. Intent to vaccine increased by 31% after viewing the HPV educational video. HPV vaccination rates increased 6% (females) and 9% (males).ConclusionsPrimary care providers (PCPs) should look for innovative ways to educate parents about HPV, help parents make informed decisions about the HPV vaccine, and work toward a common goal of preventing HPV-associated cancers.Implications for NursingImplications are three-fold benefiting parents, PCPs, and society. Parents will be more knowledgeable, providers will understand they are an important key in the vaccine process, and society will benefit from a decrease in HPV-associated cancers.

Motives and attitudes of parents toward HPV vaccination: Results from the initial period of HPV vaccine rollout in Serbia

“…As Sitaresmi M.N. et al proved, there was a significant correlation between increasing HPV vaccine acceptability with the improvement of awareness, knowledge, perception toward HPV infection, cervical cancer and HPV vaccination (r = 0.32 to 0.53, p<0.001) and other numerous studies have confirmed, and we can see from valuable motives in our study, it is very important to educate parents and distribute important facts about the benefits of this vaccine and the HPV prevention [32][33][34]. Consequently, in this way, educated parents with sufficient knowledge will be empowered enough to ask for vaccination of their child(ren) even without a "paediatrician's recommendation".…”

Effect of an HPV Vaccination Multi-Level, Multi-Component Program on HPV Vaccination Initiation and Completion in a Pediatric Clinic Network

“…Evidence for system-, provider-and parent-targeted strategies to mitigate these barriers has been established. Strategies include system-level changes to electronic health records to routinize provider prompts to recommend HPV vaccination and audit and feedback strategies [22], provider-level interventions to promote effective provider communication (including presumptive, bundled, and/or unqualified provider recommendations) [23], and patient reminders [24] and parent education [25] aimed at parent determinants. There is also modest evidence for the implementation of parent-and patient-focused apps to promote HPV education and vaccination [26][27][28].…”