ABSTRACT
The HPV vaccine debuted more than ten years ago in the United States and many strategies have been evaluated to increase HPV vaccination rates, which include not only improving current vaccination behaviors but also sustaining these behaviors. Researchers and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds have engaged in this work, which has included efforts directed at public health and government policies, health education and health promotion programs, and clinical and patient-provider approaches, as well as work aimed to respond to and combat anti-HPV vaccination movements in society. Using a previously developed conceptual model to organize and summarize each of these areas, this paper also highlights the need for future HPV vaccine promotion work to adopt a multi-level and, when possible, integrated approach in order to maximize impact on vaccination rates.
KEYWORDS: adolescent health, attitudes toward health, communication, health promotion, human papilloma virus vaccine
Introduction
Genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI), with the CDC estimating that more than 90% of men and more than 80% of women will be infected with at least one type of HPV in their lives.1 Genital HPV strains are categorized as low-risk and high-risk, with the low-risk strains known to cause genital warts and the high risk-strains known to cause several types of cancer.2 Virtually all cases of cervical cancer are caused by HPV, with 70% of cervical cancer cases linked to just two types of HPV – 16 and 18.2
The introduction of the multi-dose HPV vaccine, however, began a new era in STI and cancer prevention. Alex Azar, the deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services at the time, said the approval of this vaccine was “a major step forward in public health protection.”3 However, many in public health and healthcare also expressed caution, noting that it might be challenging to promote a vaccine for STI prevention. The 9-valent HPV vaccine (9vHPV) is the HPV vaccine currently available in the U.S. and the CDC recommends that all children be vaccinated routinely at 11 or 12 years of age; in other words, prior to sexual initiation and at the same visit when the meningococcal (MenACWY) and tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap) vaccines are administered.4 Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine on the eve of the vaccine's introduction, Steinbrook noted:
The acceptance of the HPV vaccine — by physicians, parents, preteens, and the public at large — is also uncertain. As with many issues related to sex, people may have strong views. Increased acceptance is likely to require ongoing discussion and educational efforts.5
In the 11 years since this statement, the diffusion of the HPV vaccine has increased, albeit quite slowly. Data from the 2016 National Immunization Survey-Teen indicates that about 56% of 13–17 year old male adolescents and 65% of females have started the HPV vaccine series, with only 38% of males and 50% of females finishing the vaccine series.6 These current vaccination rates fall well below the Healthy People 2020 objective to reach 80% series completion for all adolescents.7 Despite the modest levels of vaccination, we are reaping some public health benefits; comparisons of pre-vaccine and post-vaccine HPV prevalence reveal a 64% decrease of HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18 among females 14–19 years of age.8
Numerous strategies have been evaluated to increase HPV vaccination rates, to not only improve current vaccination behaviors but also sustain these behaviors. Importantly, the promotion of the HPV vaccine is somewhat unique in a number of ways. First, promotion of this vaccine is complicated in that it is a multi-dose vaccine that is not generally required for school entry, has a broad age range (ages 9–26), and prevents sexually transmitted infections. Second, in addition to public health policies and promotion strategies, there have also been paid advertisement campaigns by Merck, the maker of the Gardasil HPV vaccine, including the well-known “One Less” campaign and the more recent “Did you know?” campaign. While these mass media advertisements have been shown to have an effect on awareness and decision to vaccinate,9 they are not the focus of this review. Instead, we focus on the many efforts directed at public health and government policies, health education and health promotion programs, and clinical and patient-provider approaches, as well as work aimed to respond to and combat anti-HPV vaccination movements in society. Importantly, we have organized this paper according to a previous conceptual model we developed outlining key issues in parental decision-making about child and adolescent vaccination.10 The original article defines the scope of the model in this way:
“when parents consider whether to have their child immunized, their decision or willingness to immunize may be influenced by social-environmental factors, parent-specific or personal factors, the family's interface with the health care system, institutional policies and interventions related to vaccines, and the physical environment of health” (p. 442).
Several years later, the model was critiqued when another scholar argued that it would be improved by including explicit mention of the role of political factors, especially the interplay between government and local/state policies.11 Taking this critique into consideration, the revised model is included here (Fig. 1).
In this paper, we use this conceptual model to organize our review of strategies and their success in addressing HPV vaccination of adolescents in the United States, and draw attention to potential future intervention approaches for consideration and study.
Institutional and policy factors influencing HPV vaccination
Institutional and policy-based initiatives can and do play a large role in driving uptake of the HPV vaccine. However, this is a relatively complicated area with the need to consider different federal and state initiatives for vaccination, new and changing professional and national disciplinary committees' recommendations and guidelines, and even healthcare-based institutional policies that could affect parental decisions to vaccinate.
School-based policies
In the U.S., perhaps the most effective tool for achieving high vaccination rates involves school entry requirements, often referred to as mandates.12 These requirements, which are determined on a state-by-state basis, have been remarkably successful in improving coverage for many vaccines, including, but not limited to, MenACWY and Tdap.13 Moreover, when exemptions from school entry requirements are easily granted (e.g., on the basis of “personal beliefs”), the result is decreased vaccination rates and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.14,15 Since the introduction of HPV vaccination in the U.S. there has been a good deal of debate around school entry requirements. Intensive efforts to pass legislation in 2006 and 2007, shortly after the HPV vaccine was licensed, led to a backlash in public opinion and a number of critical analyses of these efforts were published.16-20 The first two jurisdictions to pass school entry requirements for HPV vaccine, Virginia and the District of Columbia, enacted legislation that was quite weak, applied only to girls, and had no real enforcement.21 For example, the Virginia HPV vaccination requirement reads as follows:
Effective October 1, 2008, a complete series of 3 doses of HPV vaccine is required for females. The first dose shall be administered before the child enters the 6th grade. After reviewing educational materials approved by the Board of Health, the parent or guardian, at the parent's or guardian's sole discretion, may elect for the child not to receive the HPV vaccine.22
Not surprisingly, when such inherently flawed public health policies are implemented, they have little impact on the intended outcome, HPV vaccination rates.23 While it is difficult to fully evaluate its effects at this point in time, Rhode Island, which has the nation's highest HPV vaccination rates, implemented a stronger, gender neutral school entry requirement in 2015.24 Although enactment of school entry requirements for HPV vaccine is politically challenging and somewhat controversial,25 it remains an important strategy to consider in order to ensure maximum protection against cervical and other HPV-related cancers.
Vaccine policies
Another public policy approach is a reduction in the number of vaccine doses recommended for series completion. With evidence for efficacy of a 2-dose regimen in younger adolescents, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recently changed their recommendation from three to two doses for those who receive the first dose before age 15 years.26 The two doses should be administered six to twelve months apart. This policy change may serve to increase vaccination rates by reducing costs and logistical barriers, and by providing a motivation for initiating vaccination at younger vs. older ages. Furthermore, there is preliminary evidence suggesting that a single dose of HPV vaccine may be sufficient to provide reasonably long-lasting protection.27-29 A future policy shift to a one-dose regimen would likely have a very positive effect on HPV vaccination rates.
Age-based policies
Other public policy initiatives that could impact HPV vaccination rates include implementing a recommendation that vaccination should be initiated at ages 9–10 rather than at ages 11–12 (the vaccine is already licensed down to age 9 years) and harmonizing the recommendations for males and females ages 22–26 years. The earlier initiation of vaccination might help to minimize the association of HPV vaccine with initiation of sexual behavior and may allow for the completion of the two-dose series at the 11–12 year old visit when MenACWY and Tdap are administered. A recent review found that providers typically waited until much later in adolescence, and beyond the target age set by the CDC (11–12 years), to recommend the HPV vaccine to parents and adolescents; this was usually a result of parental preference for waiting to discuss it.30 However, to our knowledge, no research has explicitly examined parent or provider perspectives on the issue of vaccinating at an earlier age.
On the other end of the age spectrum, “catch-up” vaccination is routinely recommended for all women up through age 26, but not for all men. For men ages 22 through 26 years, ACIP only routinely recommends catch-up vaccination for men who have sex with men, transgender persons, and those with immunocompromising conditions.26 These divergent recommendations based on sex add to the complexity of public health messaging and contribute to confusion around HPV vaccination policy.
Provider policies
Another policy approach that could help to improve HPV vaccination rates is implementation of a benchmark that requires providers to achieve a pre-determined level of vaccination in their eligible patients. Health insurance plans that implement such policies can reward providers who reach the designated level and impose consequences on those who fail to achieve the benchmark. Currently, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) issues the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures, which are benchmarks used by many health insurance plans. Included among the HEDIS measures is the expectation that all doses of HPV vaccine be administered by age 13.31
Future directions
In sum, there are a number of institutional and policy strategies to increase HPV vaccination that could have large and lasting effects on uptake rates. Researchers should continue to partner with policy makers to better investigate the potential impact of these policies on actual behavior, as well as how the public may perceive and accept these policies. Gaining support from respected public health and medical organizations like APHA or AMA could also help to increase support for, and realization of, these policy ideas.
Clinical and health care influences on HPV vaccination
A second area in which HPV vaccine promotion has taken place is in the clinical setting, such as primary care clinics, pharmacies, and county health department immunization clinics. With several exceptions (e.g., school-based vaccination programs), most vaccinations take place in such clinical settings, making it an ideal context for promoting HPV vaccine. In this section, we review how parents' and adolescents' interactions with health care providers within the more formal health care system play a role in HPV vaccination behaviors.
Role of provider recommendation
Perhaps not surprisingly, a provider recommendation for HPV vaccination is consistently shown to be one of the most important factors driving vaccination intention and behavior for parents of adolescent girls.32-35 On the other hand, many clinicians do not always make appropriate and timely HPV vaccination recommendations to parents of adolescents, potentially leading to a number of missed opportunities.36-38 For example, providers' quality of HPV vaccine recommendations vary on indicators such as timeliness (i.e., based on patient age), consistency (i.e., using risk-based communication strategies when recommending the vaccine), and urgency (i.e., same day vs. at a later visit).38 While clinicians have provided a number of reasons and rationales for delaying or not recommending the HPV vaccine,30,39 it is clear that interventions are needed at the provider level to equip these clinicians with the confidence and skills to make this important recommendation to parents and patients.
Provider training
Medical educators increasingly recognize that equipping providers with the knowledge and communication skills to promote vaccine acceptance by parents and teens should begin early in professional training of medical students.40 Need for early intervention prior to solidification of negative attitudes toward hesitant or refusing parents was illustrated in a recent study with 132 medical students and pediatric residents.41 Compared to vignettes portraying parents who question evidence- based medical recommendation about pediatric antibiotic use or ear tube placement, a vignette portraying a vaccine- hesitant parent elicited more negative attitudes, less willingness to address parent concern, and a preference to refer rather than continue care. Vaccine-specific curriculums have been developed that target both 3rd year medical students42 and pediatric interns43 and employ a variety of teaching approaches, such as lectures, role-plays, simulated patients, and case-based discussions.
Beyond medical school and residency, there has been limited work in provider training in the clinical setting. One intervention included training providers to talk about HPV vaccination with parents in one of two ways, either as a one-way announcement to parents about the need to vaccinate against HPV or as a conversation/shared-decision making approach in which the parents and clinicians discussed the HPV vaccine.44 Interestingly, the announcement arm of the intervention, which could be seen as a more paternalistic approach, was successful at significantly, though modestly, increasing HPV vaccination initiation in both boys and girls, while the conversation approach did not result in any statistically significant increases. Another approach called Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) has been used in a variety of clinical settings for different health topics. In the HPV vaccination arena, one intervention utilized a combination of provider education, support to providers, individualized feedback on the providers' vaccination rates, and incentives to improve HPV vaccination.45,46 They found that providers receiving the PI CME program were significantly more likely to vaccinate boys and girls with their first dose and with the follow-up HPV vaccine doses. However, these interventions and others like it can be time and resource intensive and may not be feasible for wide scale dissemination.46
Technology
eHealth technologies provide an opportunity to address HPV vaccination initiation and completion in the clinical setting. Clinical decision support (CDS) aids, usually in the form of reminders in the electronic health record to the provider, are showing some promise in improving vaccination rates.47-50 Usually based on an algorithm of a limited number of variables which combines CDC guidelines and recommendations with several patient demographic variables (e.g., age, sex), the clinician is given a reminder prompt at the time of the visit to discuss and recommend appropriate vaccines.47,48 In two studies which investigated these clinical decision support aids, results showed significantly higher HPV vaccine initiation49 and both higher initiation and completion rates50 for adolescent females. However, in a prospective intervention study, clinician reminder prompts did not increase initiation or series completion of HPV vaccination.51 Despite their promise, CDS programs still have many limitations (e.g., alert fatigue for clinicians, easy ability to override alerts) and more work is needed to maximize the benefit (e.g., developing alert systems that include both clinician and patient roles) that can be gained from this type of intervention.52
Perhaps the most promising application of eHealth is the use of mobile technology, namely text messaging, to prompt parents and their adolescents to begin or continue the HPV vaccine regimen. Those interventions that have incorporated text messaging have mostly targeted the parents of adolescents and included not only prompting parents to initiate the HPV vaccine series with the first dose,53 but also used texting reminders for getting the follow-up doses of the HPV vaccine at the appropriate time intervals.54-56 Text messaging can also be combined with other intervention elements, such as in-person consultation, to increase the efficacy of the intervention.57 In addition to simple reminders, text messages can also contain particular message features, such as educational messages about HPV and cancer, the source of the health threat, or the role of personal agency, to increase parental intention to vaccinate their children.58,59 Text messaging may be a particularly promising area for increasing uptake of dose 1 and timely completion of the second HPV dose, especially given that the Pew Research Center reports that 73% of American adults are text messaging users, sending and receiving an average of 42 texts per day – and that report was done 6 years ago.60 This is also a technology which is widely used by underserved groups (e.g., racial minorities, low income groups) for health information, making it an ideal intervention strategy for reaching those most at risk.61
Finally, a promising area of eHealth technology for parents in clinics utilizes written educational materials or digital technology to deliver HPV vaccination education and promotion programs. For example, in a clinic feasibility study, parents participated in a self-persuasion tablet-based intervention in which they watched a brief HPV and HPV vaccine educational video and then answered questions which prompted them to generate 3 reasons for vaccinating62 Sixty percent of those parents (n = 15) still undecided about vaccination after viewing the video shifted to endorsing vaccination after participating in the self-persuasion tasks.
Future directions
Despite the success of several eHealth or digital intervention studies, it does not appear that these strategies have been widely disseminated or adopted by a critical mass of clinics to increase HPV vaccination. Many of the strategies that fall under this umbrella are newer and reliant on the development of sophisticated technologies and algorithms for tailored messaging and recommendations based on (often changing) clinical guidelines. Work in this area could benefit from further research and dissemination of successful programs, especially given that some of these programs are potentially scalable and have been shown to be relatively cost effective at improving HPV vaccination rates.63 In tandem with exploring and tracking success of eHealth strategies, providers may need continued training to effectively communicate about the HPV vaccine in order to make appropriate recommendations. As previously mentioned, the majority of HPV vaccination happens in the clinical setting, making it an appropriate and opportune context in which to devote resources and attention to increase vaccine uptake.
Social/environmental factors influencing HPV vaccination
In schools and communities across the country, a number of strategies have been implemented to increase HPV vaccine uptake with varying success. In this section, we discuss different HPV vaccination strategies that have addressed the physical environment and relevant normative and social influences in a community to drive behavior.
School-located vaccination programs
A promising approach to increase HPV vaccination access for adolescents in the United States is receipt of vaccination in schools rather than clinical settings. In the United Kingdom and Australia, implementation of school-located HPV vaccination programs has led to rates of HPV vaccine completion among 11-to-12-year-old girls exceeding 80%.64,65 Although the U.S. has a history of school-located vaccination for other vaccines,66,67 few school-based HPV immunization programs have been implemented, due, perhaps, to political factors, public opinion, and logistical challenges.68 Nonetheless, school-based vaccination, when it can be implemented, may be a viable approach to increase HPV vaccination rates, especially in underserved populations.69
On the other hand, school-located vaccination presents several challenges that must be addressed in any future interventions. Reimbursement remains a consideration with school-located vaccination because schools may not have a mechanism to bill insurance providers and payment for school-located vaccination could be denied by insurers as an out-of-network service.70,71 Other barriers identified in one HPV school located intervention are limitations that may be imposed by state laws and school administrations such as requirements for parents to consent and accompany students for vaccination.72 Parents may never receive consent forms from children, especially middle school aged children,73 and may not be able to accompany students due to work or transportation barriers. Future interventions should consider opt-out consent processes and/or eliminating requirements for parental accompaniment. Additionally, it may be beneficial to consider including Tdap and MenACWY with any school-based HPV vaccine to lessen any resistance to the HPV vaccine given that all three vaccines can be administered at the same age.72 Obtaining buy-in from the local health department and school administrators is critical to increase participation in school-located vaccination because of the messaging and education that they can provide to children and parents about the vaccine. Other considerations for school-located vaccination include vaccination storage, administration, and documentation.
Community-based interventions
Community-based interventions have the potential to increase demand for vaccination. Although several community-based patient education interventions have measured acceptability, attitudes, and intention towards HPV vaccination among adolescents and their parents, few have measured vaccination uptake in adolescent populations.74 Patient navigators and social marketing campaigns show promise in increasing HPV vaccination uptake in the community setting. In one study, adolescents who received education from patient navigators were significantly more likely to receive recommended adolescent vaccines than those who did not.75 Social marketing campaigns seem to demonstrate some effectiveness, with one study showing partial success at driving vaccine uptake in two of four rural counties.76 Despite promise in a few areas, little work has compared different intervention strategies to identify what may be the most effective, including cost-effectiveness.
The use of mass media and digital technologies to deliver interventions is also a promising area. It is well documented that people have difficulty appreciating small safety risks, such as those posed by HPV vaccine side effects. In an online intervention, provision of information comparing HPV vaccine safety to the risk of physical harm posed by a common childhood activity—team sports participation in soccer or basketball— actually improved mothers' willingness to vaccinate their 9–13 year old children.77 Communicative strategies like these, which could consider other vaccine-youth activity comparisons, might help more parents appreciate the very small safety risks posed by HPV vaccine. Although other types of patient education interventions have not measured HPV vaccination uptake among adolescents, DVD and web-based communication approaches could potentially increase HPV vaccination. A DVD-based intervention showed promise in helping Latino and Korean Americans make an informed HPV vaccination decision for their children.78 A web-based program that was tested in adult college students, but not adolescents or their parents, resulted in significantly more positive attitudes in the website group at the end of the intervention.79 Research efforts are expanding on this promising approach by evaluating web-based approaches to reach parents and adolescents with informative and engaging messages about HPV vaccination.80,81 DVDs and web-based programs are an affordable way to communicate to a large group of people and could be developed to target cultural factors that limit vaccination uptake in underserved communities.
Future directions
Overall, more research is needed to determine the best strategies for interventions to increase HPV vaccination access and community demand, and specifically, these interventions should target underserved populations who may be most at risk from HPV-related cancers. More research is necessary to demonstrate whether HPV school-located vaccination is cost effective and feasible. Multiple strategies, such as school-located vaccination to increase access and a DVD to increase community demand, hold promise, but research is needed to identify which components of a multi-faceted approach may best serve these communities. In addition, interventions may have more reach and be more cost effective if they can target multiple behaviors; for example, HPV vaccination could be combined with other vaccinations to increase uptake of multiple immunizations.
Countering the anti-HPV vaccine rhetoric
Environmental and personal/parental factors influencing HPV vaccination
In today's media-saturated world where ideas and stories, regardless of truth, can quickly garner a great deal of attention, any strategy aimed at promoting the HPV vaccine must also take into account anti-vaccination sentiments and messaging. As long as there have been vaccines, there has been resistance to their use; this is of course one of the main reasons that government and institutional policies have been needed to ensure high levels of vaccination in the public and one of the main arguments for implementing school-entry requirements.82 The HPV vaccine fortunately has been immune from the misconception and public conversation around the myth that vaccines cause autism, as much of that debate is centered on infant and early childhood vaccines. However, it has come with its own controversies, including the idea of risk compensation related to increased sexual activity and safety and risks associated with such a “new” vaccine. In this section, we review how the media coverage and public conversations about HPV vaccination contributes to an environment where parents are often left with negative beliefs about the vaccination, as well as highlight work that has sought to address these parental concerns.
Risk compensation
One reason behind opposition to the HPV vaccine was the fear that it would promote earlier sexual initiation or increased sexual activity among the adolescents who received the vaccine.83 Because HPV is a sexually transmitted infection, some parents voiced the opinion that vaccinating children would be equivalent to giving them permission to engage in sexual activity.84,85 Media coverage of the HPV vaccine echoed these concerns, with many newspaper articles86,87 and online news articles88 pushing these ideas. In addition, some religious groups89 and conservative social and political groups90,91 have voiced strong objections to vaccinating girls so young against an STI. Despite this, a recent systematic review of 20 research studies investigating this issue found no evidence for risk compensation following HPV vaccination.92
Safety and vaccine side effects
Another concern that was expressed about HPV vaccine was that it was too “new” and therefore potentially unsafe, despite conclusive research that HPV vaccination is safe and well-tolerated.93,94 A content analysis of U.S. and Canadian newspapers found that while stories did mention the threat of HPV-related disease (e.g., cervical cancer), they often also included “fright factor” messages about HPV vaccine.95 These messages included doubts about the long-term efficacy and safety of the vaccine, as well as the idea that the vaccine was mostly being promoted because of lobbying by pharmaceutical companies, not because it had health benefits. For online coverage, more than 50% of Youtube videos about HPV vaccine were found to be negative in tone; interestingly, these negative videos had more “likes” than positive or ambiguous videos.96
Negative ideas and fears are exacerbated when prominent leaders, like politicians, repeat anecdotes not based in fact to the media. Michelle Bachman, a candidate for the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary, was a particularly outspoken opponent of HPV vaccination. In an interview on the Today Show, she contributed to the vaccine safety and side effect fears by recounting the following story of a mother who came up to her at a rally:
She told me that her little daughter took that vaccine, that injection. And she suffered from mental retardation thereafter…This is the very real concern and people have to draw their own conclusions.97
Her false claim was subsequently refuted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, but statements like hers can remain influential and damaging to efforts at cancer prevention through vaccination. Researchers are increasingly recognizing the importance of not only the role of media in influencing clinical decisions like vaccination, but also the role of everyday interpersonal communication within social networks.98 For example, one study looked at parents' social networks (e.g., friends, fellow parents, healthcare providers) and found that those parents less willing to vaccinate had large social networks of people telling them to not conform to vaccination guidelines (e.g., on time vaccination).99 In addition they tended to consulting more sources of information (e.g., internet, magazine) that also promoted non-adherence to recommended vaccination schedules.99 In other words, mass/public communication about vaccination and interpersonal communication about vaccination go hand-in-hand. While this study was specifically examining parents of young children, it's possible these same patterns exist in parents of older children although more research is needed in this area. More broadly, we know that about 20 percent of individuals caring for loved ones (e.g., parents of children) have gone onto social media sites to gather health information and 38% of them have gone on social media sites to specifically consult others' reviews of medical products (e.g., drugs, vaccines).100 In sum, the role of various mass media and interpersonal influences (and in the case of social media, both) is important in parents' vaccination decisions, suggesting the need to devote more time and attention to not only better understanding the effects of these influences, but also how to account for them in vaccination promotion work.
Work addressing anti-vaccine messaging
Public opposition to vaccines in any form, whether individual stories of patients with claims of adverse side effects or larger initiatives aimed at discounting the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, are important because it can influence individuals' intentions and behaviors to vaccinate. In an experiment in which college students were exposed to either a positive or negative blog post about HPV vaccination, those in the negative group reported lower perceived vaccine efficacy and safety, more negative attitudes, and lower intentions to vaccinate compared to the control and positive blog groups.101 Writing about recent anti-HPV vaccine sentiments, some scholars advise that “the infectious disease and oncology community should be aware of these [stories and ideas in the media]…not corroborated by the evidence base, and they must be able to communicate this to patients and the general public.”102 In other words, not only must we be designing and implementing health promotion programs to encourage vaccination, but practitioners, public health officials, and health communication specialists must also incorporate communication strategies to counter anti-vaccine messaging and sentiments in the general public.
Scholars in health communication have begun to address this need with respect to HPV vaccination. In a study using inoculation messaging techniques, unvaccinated adult individuals who were exposed to messages that inoculated them against attacks on the HPV vaccine or attacks on vaccines in general were less vulnerable to these attack messages in a video experiment compared to the control condition.103 Applying sound communication principles, such as inoculation theory, could be an effective method for countering anti-HPV vaccine sentiments. However, to our knowledge, no research examining this strategy with parents of adolescents has been done. In addition, continued surveillance of public and media concerns circulating in the news and popular press is important in order to inform what informational gaps should be addressed with public health education and health promotion strategies.
Future directions
Unfortunately, as Dube´ and colleagues note, there are “few, if any, public health strategies [that] have effectively and long-lastingly succeeded in countering anti-vaccination movements”,82 suggesting a need for renewed attention and innovative strategizing to address vaccine resistance in the general public in lasting ways. Efforts to combat anti-HPV vaccine messaging is an area where health communication and persuasion scholars may be particularly adept at developing intervention strategies for counter-messaging. For example, the HPV vaccine promotion community may benefit from a well-known or celebrity champion (e.g., a celebrity endorsement) as part of the overall strategy for combating anti-vaccine sentiments.104 More rigorous evaluation of which targeted messaging strategies actually drive vaccine acceptance and uptake for vaccine-hesitant individuals can help drive success in this area.105 Perhaps most important is that anyone working on increasing HPV vaccine uptake – whether in the clinic, state or federal government, community, schools, or media-based work – must take into account that parents' decision-making around this vaccine may be shadowed by personal beliefs such as the sexually transmitted nature of HPV and safety concerns about the vaccine itself.
Conclusion
This review highlights some of the major strategies that have been used to promote HPV vaccination, focusing specifically on policy, clinical training and interventions, community and school-based programs, and an increased awareness of the need to counter anti-vaccine rhetoric. In addition, we draw attention to promising areas for future policy and research efforts in key areas, many of which are consistent with those identified during the 2016 meeting of the National HPV Vaccination Roundtable.106 Researchers, practitioners, politicians, educators, and pro-vaccination groups are making great strides in increasing the HPV vaccination rate, but there is much progress that remains to be made.
Moving forward, it is essential to recognize that no single strategy or focus will lead to success. Instead, we should work simultaneously on multiple levels (e.g., public health policy, mass media communication, clinical practice, and health education) to ensure that we move towards the Healthy People 2020 goal of 80% HPV vaccine series completion. The factors within the conceptual model used to guide our analysis should not be seen as separate parts, but rather as individual pieces of the larger puzzle for increasing HPV vaccination and reducing HPV-related disease. We challenge those in the field to begin working to better integrate multiple approaches for maximum success, something echoed by other scholars as well.107
In fact, most public health issues benefit from a, multi-level, integrated approach. For example, recent statistics show smoking rates in the United States are at an all-time low, which the CDC credits to a variety of “strategies proven to work…like funding tobacco control programs at the CDC-recommended levels, increasing prices of tobacco products, implementing and enforcing comprehensive smoke-free laws, and sustaining hard-hitting media campaigns.”108 This example illustrates that over time and with sustained efforts on multiple fronts, significant and sustained population health behavior change is possible. In addition, an integrated, multi-faceted approach to address vaccination promotion and vaccine concerns also maximizes potential success because a “one size fits all” intervention approach will never address all concerns nor be equally effective with all people.105 This is particularly true for the U.S., which does not have a national health insurance system or the ability to implement uniform national HPV vaccination policies across states and jurisdictions.
But what does this look like for HPV vaccination? Ultimately, it will require integrated efforts to: 1) influence sound public health policy; 2) develop effective media messaging strategies that incorporate health promotion and education as well as counter-messaging for anti-vaccination rhetoric; 3) evaluate and implement strong clinic-based communication and support systems; and 4) minimize logistical barriers in order to maximize HPV vaccination rates and protect our children from the pain, suffering, and expenses associated with HPV-related diseases. We can now promote this vaccine as important for both sexes and for several types of cancer, which may help the general public support HPV vaccine as an incredible public health innovation. While some individual puzzle pieces are in place for increasing HPV vaccine uptake in our country, the next step is putting these pieces together in a comprehensive approach to educate and persuade parents to vaccinate, thereby increasing uptake of this life-saving vaccine.
Funding Statement
Erika Biederman's work on this paper was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number T32CA117865.
Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest
No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.
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