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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 4.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatrics. 2016 Feb 26;137(3):e20152857. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-2857

TABLE 5.

Completion Rates by Method, Patient Characteristic, and Preference (Intervention Only)

Characteristic Level HPV Dose 2 Completed, n = 312 HPV Dose 3 Completed, n = 223

% (n) % (n)
Contact preference Parent and child 85.9 (61) 62.1 (41)
Parent only 82.8 (251) 62.5 (182)
Age, ya 11–12 86.4 (152) 70.8 (119)
13–15 81.7 (107) 58.9 (73)
16–17 79.1 (53) 47.7 (31)
Gender Boys 81.2 (203) 62.0 (147)
Girls 87.9 (109) 63.3 (76)
Race White 86.2 (156) 64.5 (111)
Black 86.3 (44) 57.4 (27)
Other 81.2 (56) 67.6 (46)
Unknown 76.7 (56) 55.7 (39)
Hispanic Yes 77.8 (63) 60.8 (48)
No 85.8 (223) 65.2 (161)
Unknown 78.8 (26) 45.2 (14)
Type of contact One method 82.5 (203) 59.1 (137)
Two methods 85.2 (109) 68.8 (86)
Contact methodb Text only 82.1 (119) 56.2 (77)
E-mail only 85.1 (57) 60.7 (37)
Phone only 79.4 (27) 67.6 (23)
Text and e-mail 81.9 (59) 64.3 (45)
Text and phone 85.7 (30) 65.7 (23)
Phone and e-mail 95.2 (20) 90.0 (18)
a

P < .01, distribution of age statistically different between completed and not completed for HPV dose 3.

b

P = .008 for phone and e-mail versus all other contact methods for dose 3 completion.