Table 3.
Question | n (%) answering correctly |
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Women can receive the HPV vaccine while breastfeeding (True) | 151 (68.9%) |
The HPV vaccine is FDA approved for males and females 9- to 45-year-olds (True) | 197 (90.0%) |
The CDC's ACIP recommends patients between the ages of 27 and 45 who have not been adequately vaccinated make a shared decision with their doctor about whether to receive the HPV vaccine (True) | 206 (94.1%) |
The CDC's ACIP routinely recommends a two-dose series for HPV vaccination with the nine-valent HPV vaccine among people 15- to 26-year-olds (False) | 79 (36.2%) |
The ACA requires most private insurance plans to cover some recommended preventive services and ACIP recommended immunizations without consumer cost-sharing. Plans must cover the HPV vaccine for the recommended populations (True) | 157 (71.7%) |
Warts induced by HPV6 and 11 are not cervical cancer precursors (True) | 167 (76.6%) |
The only cancer the HPV vaccine protects against is cervical cancer (False) | 181 (83.0%) |
ACA, Affordable Care Act; ACIP, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; FDA, Food and Drug Administration.