Views on HPV and HPV Vaccination: The Experience at a Federal Qualified Clinic in Puerto Rico

Abstract

Objective The purpose of this study was to understand through a quantitative assessment, the views of HPV and HPV vaccination among parents of sons from a FQHC in PR. Methods A self-administered questionnaire was given to a convenience sample of 200 parents of sons 9–17 years old. Results Nearly 30% of the parents reported that their sons had initiated the HPV vaccine regimen. Health care provider recommendation was significantly associated with vaccine initiation. Among parents of unvaccinated sons, the main reason for not getting the HPV vaccine was they did not know that boys were allowed to get the vaccine. Conclusions Future efforts should focus on multilevel interventions aimed to increase knowledge as well as other modified behavioral determinants in parents of young males about HPV and the vaccine. Capacity building efforts should be targeted also to increase health providers’ education and communication skills to promote HPV vaccination effectively.

Exploring HPV Knowledge, Awareness, Beliefs, Attitudes, and Vaccine Acceptability of Latino Fathers Living in the United States: An Integrative Review

“…This manual search yielded two additional eligible studies. In total, 11 articles were selected for final inclusion in this integrative review [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

“…According to Whittemore and Knafl, there is no gold standard for assessing the methodological quality of studies included in an integrative review [27]. For the current review, the quality of each included study was reviewed independently by two authors (ACL, SFW, MLG) using the criteria from the validated Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) quality framework tool [40] for qualitative [29,39], quantitative [31,32,36,38] and mixed methods studies [30,33,34,35,37]. The CASP qualitative tool is comprised of 12 questions [40] and 10 of them were used to appraise mixed methods studies (n=6) and qualitative studies (n=2) included in this review (see Table 1).…”

“…Four of the 11 reviewed studies employed quantitative methods-three were crosssectional [31,32,36], while one examined the effect of an intervention and employed a longitudinal study design [38]. The four quantitative studies [31,32,36,38] included a total of 227 Latino fathers, with sample sizes ranging from five [32] to 189 [36] fathers.…”

“…One of the 11 studies included only fathers [36], whereas 10 included both mothers and fathers [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][37][38][39]. Nine of the 11 studies included Latino fathers of multiethnic backgrounds [29][30][31][33][34][35][36][37][38], one focused on Dominican parents living in Puerto Rico [32], and one included Puerto Ricans only [39]. Furthermore, across all nine studies with multiethnic samples, the majority of parents were Mexicans or Mexican-Americans [29,31,[33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

“…Of the 11 studies, three took place in Puerto Rico [31,32,39] and seven took place in three states-four in Utah [30,[33][34][35], two in Washington [37,38], and one in New York [29]. Only one study included a national sample [36].…”