Mahoney Martin C, Saad-Harfouche Frances G, Widman Christy A, Twarozek Annamaria Masucci, Erwin Deborah O, Rodriguez Elisa M
Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Office of Cancer Health Disparities Research, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.
World J Vaccines. 2016;6(1). doi: 10.4236/wjv.2016.61002.
Adolescent HPV vaccination rates remain suboptimal. The purpose of the study was to investigate attitudes about HPV vaccine relative to other adolescent vaccines among clinical staff from primary care offices and school based clinics.
We interviewed clinicians in primary care offices and school-based clinics regarding their attitudes about HPV vaccine relative to Tdap and MCV4.
Respondents (n = 36) included clinical staff in family medicine (47%), pediatrics (25%), obstetrics/gynecology (19%) and school-based health clinics (8%). Only 3% strongly agreed and 17% agreed that completion of HPV vaccine was more important than completion of pertussis vaccine (Tdap), while 6% strongly agreed and 33% agreed that completion of HPV vaccine was more important than completion of meningitis vaccine (MCV4).
Providing clinicians with additional information about the cancer prevention benefits of the HPV vaccine and the greater risk for HPV infection/disease relative to other vaccine preventable adolescent diseases may help to increase HPV vaccination rates among adolescents.
青少年人乳头瘤病毒（HPV）疫苗接种率仍未达到最佳水平。本研究的目的是调查基层医疗办公室和学校诊所的临床工作人员对HPV疫苗相对于其他青少年疫苗的态度。
我们就基层医疗办公室和学校诊所的临床医生对HPV疫苗相对于破伤风类毒素、白喉、无细胞百日咳疫苗（Tdap）和四价脑膜炎球菌结合疫苗（MCV4）的态度进行了访谈。
受访者（n = 36）包括家庭医学领域的临床工作人员（47%）、儿科（25%）、妇产科（19%）和学校健康诊所（8%）。只有3%的人强烈同意，17%的人同意完成HPV疫苗接种比完成百日咳疫苗（Tdap）接种更重要，而6%的人强烈同意，33%的人同意完成HPV疫苗接种比完成脑膜炎疫苗（MCV4）接种更重要。
向临床医生提供有关HPV疫苗预防癌症益处以及相对于其他可通过疫苗预防的青少年疾病而言HPV感染/疾病风险更高的额外信息，可能有助于提高青少年的HPV疫苗接种率。
