Clinical trial NCT01600560: Facilitating Completion of HPV Vaccination
Official title: Facilitating the Completion of the 3-Dose Series of HPV Vaccination in Males and Females
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Adolescent Immunizations Among Clinic Population
Lead sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2012-05-17
Enrollment: 223
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 11
Maximum age (years): 21
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Adolescent males and females age 11-21 at a Pediatric clinic

Brief summary: With the surge in use of electronic media among adolescents, a strategy that has been utilized to increase HPV4 uptake in girls has been reminder text messaging to their parents. To date, no published study has looked at the effectiveness of texting adolescents themselves (especially boys) rather than their parents OR compared texting to social network sites to increase HPV knowledge and uptake of HPV vaccination in boys. Interactive technology-based interventions targeted at youth are feasible in North Carolina for the following reasons: (1) through the NC Minors' Consent Law adolescents can consent to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-21.5(a); and (2) many school based health centers can provide immunizations. Since HPV infection is a sexually transmitted infection, NC teens do not have to get consent for HPV prevention (i.e., vaccination).

To optimize HPV vaccination in young people, especially males, communication strategies are needed to motivate adolescents to get themselves vaccinated. Texting has been demonstrated to be a feasible, popular, and effective method of sexual health promotion to young people with a relatively low withdrawal rate, positive feedback, and an observed improvement in sexual health knowledge and STI testing (12). Social media communication strategies are a new and potentially effective channel for communicating public health messages about HPV vaccine that are also likely to increase HPV initiation and completion among adolescent girls in addition to boys.

According to the NC Immunization Registry, as of March 8, 2011, only 2% of boys ages 9-13 had received at least one dose of HPV vaccine. In the investigators continuity clinic less than 50 percent of adolescents are fully immunized. This project will identify social behavioral, emotional, and cognitive correlates and predictors that help explain why teens pursue, complete, and do not complete HPV vaccination, and develop a social media communication intervention collaboratively with teens to increase HPV vaccine initiation and completion.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* incomplete immunization

Exclusion Criteria:

* complete immunization

Primary outcomes:
measure: HPV vaccination uptake
timeFrame: 2 years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chapel Hill
country: United States
facility: UNC Pediatric Clinic
state: North Carolina
Study officials:
affiliation: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
name: Tamara Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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