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Title: HPV Knowledge and Vaccine Initiation Among Mexican-Born Farmworkers in North Carolina.

Authors: Furgurson, Katherine F; Sandberg, Joanne C; Hsu, Fang-Chi; Mora, Dana C; Quandt, Sara A; Arcury, Thomas A

Published In Health Promot Pract, (2019 05)

Abstract: The human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine is an effective but underused cancer prevention tool. This study assessed knowledge of HPV and HPV vaccine initiation among Mexican-born farmworkers in North Carolina. Interviewer-administered questionnaires were conducted with 100 Latino farmworkers and 100 nonfarmworker Latino North Carolina residents in 2015 as part of an ongoing community-based participatory research project. Farmworkers had low levels of knowledge about HPV and the HPV vaccine. They had a similar amount of HPV and HPV vaccine knowledge compared to nonfarmworkers. Farmworkers and nonfarmworkers learned about the HPV vaccine from different sources. Adolescent children of farmworkers and nonfarmworkers had low HPV vaccine initiation. However, for children living in the United States with farmworker parents, vaccine initiation was high. To prevent HPV-related cancers and improve health equity, interventions are needed in order to increase HPV education and vaccine initiation among children of Mexican-born farmworkers and nonfarmworkers. Public health programs should look for partners outside the traditional health care setting to reach underserved populations. Other key strategies include promoting catch-up vaccines, improving patient-provider communication, and providing case management services.

PubMed ID: 29597873 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Adolescent; Adult; Attitude to Health/ethnology*; Communication; Community-Based Participatory Research; Farmers/psychology*; Farmers/statistics & numerical data; Female; Hispanic Americans/psychology*; Hispanic Americans/statistics & numerical data; Humans; Male; Mexico; North Carolina; Papillomavirus Infections/prevention & control*; Papillomavirus Infections/psychology; Papillomavirus Vaccines/administration & dosage; Patient Acceptance of Health Care/ethnology; United States

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