Complex Intervention to Promote Uptake of School-based HPV Vaccination. Cristyn Davies, Faculty of Medicine

SYDNEY MEDICAL SCHOOL

HPV.edu

A Randomised Controlled Evaluation of a Complex Intervention to Promote Uptake of School-based HPV Vaccination

Cristyn DaviesDiscipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, & Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, University of Sydney

Project overview

› Skinner R, Cooper S, McCaffery K, Zimet G, McGeechan K, Whyte P, Regan D, Stoney, T, Marshall, H

› The lead researchers undertaking HPV.edu are from the University of Sydney. Other researchers include experts from the Telethon Institute in WA, the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in SA, and the Kirby Institute in NSW.

› HPV.edu is a randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention (incorporating an adolescent education intervention, a parental decision aid, and procedural facilitators) to improve the school-based human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program for adolescents.

› HPV.edu is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).

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What are the primary aims of HPV.edu?

› The primary aim of the trial is to increase the uptake of HPV vaccination.

› Secondary aims are to:

(a) improve vaccination-related psychosocial outcomes, including knowledge and attitudes, decision-making involvement, self-efficacy, and fear and anxiety, and

(b) improve program logistical outcomes, including reduction in time spent vaccinating adolescents and increased

number of consent forms returned (regardless of decision).

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What is HPV?

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Thank you and Acknowledgements

›Thank you

›Special thanks to NowPos for assistance with developing this app.

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