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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ethn Health. 2016 Nov 24;22(4):348–360. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2016.1246938

Table 2.

Additional quotes related to sex topics and parent-daughter communication about HPV.

Theme Quote Group
Limited communication between mothers and daughters about sex topics “My parents talked [about sex], but there are things that I don’t tell them. There are things that we have to keep to ourselves.” Unvaccinated daughter
Daughters feeling uncomfortable discussing sex topics with their parents When asked if this is something that parents don’t talk about and that she [daughter] prefers it that way, a daughter emphasized “No. I don’t even joke about it.”
“She [mother] took me to a bookstore to get books so she could sit down with me and show me very graphic pages and explain things that I already knew. That is very uncomfortable.”
Vaccinated daughter
Unvaccinated daughter
Focus on abstinence “My mother was very conservative and although she did not admonished my brothers and me [about sex], she talked to us about how things were, how sexual relationships go, but mostly she talked about abstinence; she never talked about condoms or birth control pills.” Unvaccinated daughter
Parent-daughter communication about HPV and the HPV vaccine “Many times parents think that they can make the decision for us when in reality… it’s a personal decision.” Unvaccinated daughter