Translating self-persuasion into an adolescent HPV vaccine promotion intervention for parents attending safety-net clinics.
Austin S Baldwin, Deanna C Denman, Margarita Sala and 8 others
PMID 27912928WHAT IT FOUND
Parents in safety-net clinics, including those with low literacy, easily completed tablet-based self-persuasion tasks about HPV vaccination.
Most undecided parents shifted to wanting the vaccine after the intervention, though actual vaccination rates were not measured.
Key findings
01Parents found the tablet-based self-persuasion tasks feasible, with low difficulty ratings and high helpfulness ratings for most prompts.
02Among parents who were initially undecided or had not thought about the vaccine, 81.8% decided in favor of vaccination after using the tablet application.
03The study did not measure actual HPV vaccine initiation or completion, only parental decisional stage and task feasibility.
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What it does not show
The study was a pilot with no control group, so it is unclear if the tablet application caused the change in decisional stage or if other factors were responsible. Actual HPV vaccine initiation and completion were not measured; only parental intent was assessed. The sample lacked diversity in race and gender, including only one father and no Caucasian participants, limiting generalizability. The intervention was tested in a private research office, not in the busy clinic waiting areas where it would typically be used.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
The easy way to misread this
Do not assume this tablet application increases actual HPV vaccination rates. The study only measured parental intent and task feasibility, not whether the adolescents received the vaccine.