Increasing girls’ knowledge about human papillomavirus vaccination with a pre-test and a national leaflet: a quasi-experimental study

BMC Public Health

Ida J Korfage³  Marjolein van Ballegooijen³  Inge MCM de Kok³  Hein Raat³  Jan Hendrik Richardus²  Puck AWH Schiffers¹  Robine Hofman³ 

[1] Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;Municipal Public Health Service Rotterdam-Rijnmond, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC - University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

关键词: Education;    Knowledge;    Adolescents;    Vaccination;    Human papillomavirus;   

Others  :  1162071
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-611

 received in 2012-07-06, accepted in 2013-06-21,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Adolescent girls are at an age to be involved in the decision about HPV vaccination uptake and therefore need adequate information about the vaccination. This study assesses to what extent reading an official information leaflet about HPV contributes to girls’ knowledge levels, and to what extent an increase in knowledge is boosted by a pre-test measurement.

Methods

Participants (girls aged 11–14 years) were systematically allocated to group A that completed a pre-test measurement (12 true/false statements) or to group B that did not complete it. Subsequently, both groups read the HPV leaflet and completed the post-test measurement.

Results

The response rate was 237/287 (83%). Pre-test scores in group A (M = 3.6, SD = 1.81, p < 0.001) were lower than post-test mean knowledge scores (0–10) in group B (M = 4.6, SD = 2.05). Post-test knowledge scores in group A were higher than those in group B [6.2 (SD = 2.06) versus 4.6 (SD = 2.05), p < 0.001]. In the post-test measurement, about a third of both groups knew that vaccinations do not give 100% protection against cervical cancer and that the duration of protection is unknown.

Conclusions

Reading the information leaflet had a positive effect on knowledge, even more so when boosted by a pre-test measurement. However, knowledge on the degree and duration of protection against cervical cancer remained limited. Focusing girls’ attention on important aspects before they start reading the leaflet (e.g. by including a quiz on the first page) may serve to raise their awareness of these aspects.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Hofman et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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