Children's and parents' attitudes to and knowledge about HPV vaccination following a targeted information intervention.
Eva Runngren, Karin Blomberg, Lina Schollin Ask and 3 others
PMID 39331841WHAT IT FOUND
Most children were already vaccinated, and parents trusted school nurses most for HPV information.
Still, many families had not seen the national information package, and parents worried about side effects.
Key findings
0197% of children were reported as vaccinated against HPV, and 3 parents chose not to vaccinate their child.
02School nurses were the most common source of HPV information for parents (182, 66%) and children (145, 70%).
03101 parents (37%) and 106 children (51%) reported not receiving any of the listed Public Health Agency information.
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What it does not show
The survey was anonymous and distributed through school nurses, so the researchers could not report a response rate or know who did not respond. Most respondents were mothers, born in Sweden, and had university or college education, so the results may not reflect fathers, families born outside Sweden, or parents with lower education. The study measured attitudes and information exposure after the fact; it did not test whether the information package changed knowledge or vaccination. The time between information and vaccination differed among participants, creating a risk of recall bias. Open-ended answers were selected and quoted without formal qualitative analysis. The survey link was not password protected and no system prevented multiple answers from the same person.
Declared interests
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that the information package improved HPV vaccination uptake. This was a cross-sectional survey of children and parents after the package was available, and it did not compare groups or test the package's effect.