Assumptions about adolescent sexual activity results in vaccination rates against HPV down
Probing deeper into the complex decisions that parents and providers face in regarding the human papilloma virus (HPV), researchers found that if the two sides appreciated the importance of the vaccine against HPV, personal assumptions surrounding the administration schedule relative to the start of the activity sexual resulted in a decrease in immunization rates.
medical school researchers from Boston University (BUSM) conducted hundreds of interviews offer new perspectives in this room the frequent and often controversial-clinical conversation. Their conclusions and recommendations appear in the September 2014 issue Pediatrics .
More specifically, the researchers found that immunization rates could be attributed to personal bias and communication styles suppliers. Suppliers who believed a child was at low risk of sexual activity of an evaluation, they admitted, not always accurate, were more likely to delay the administration. Often this delayed decision was never reviewed. Those with high rates of vaccination approached vaccines against HPV as part of the routine vaccine beam 11, unequivocally, he advised parents, and framed the conversation as one on cancer prevention.
"The focus on cancer prevention and coadministered with other routine childhood vaccines has the potential to greatly reduce missed opportunities occurring in many intentioned providers and relatives, "said lead author Rebecca Perkins, MD, M.Sc., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at BUSM and a gynecologist at Boston Medical Center.
researchers interviewed 124 parents and 37 health care providers in four clinics between September 2012 and August 2013 were invited parents and providers to discuss their reasons for their vaccine against HPV eligible girls did or did not finally received the vaccine. Remarkably the most common reason for parents (44 percent) was that their child has never been offered the vaccine. other common reasons included the perception that vaccination was optional or recommended instead of being told by their supplier that it was useless before the first sexual intercourse. Among those who refused the vaccine, the reason often involved issues of security and the belief that their daughters were too young to need.
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