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Increasing information-seeking about human papillomavirus vaccination through community partnerships in African American and Hispanic communities.

Health Communication Research Laboratory, Institute for Public Health, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri 63112, USA.
Family & community health (impact factor: 0.99). 01/2012; 35(1):15-30. DOI:10.1097/FCH.0b013e3182385d13 pp.15-30
Source: PubMed

ABSTRACT This study tested the feasibility of promoting 1-800-4-CANCER through partnerships with organizations serving African American and Hispanic communities. Small-media and client reminders about human papillomavirus vaccination were made available through local agents to 28 community organizations. Organizations ordered 79 932 resources and distributed them to young women and parents of girls-;African Americans in St Louis, Missouri, and Hispanics in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Pre- to postintervention calls to 1-800-4-CANCER increased 38% in these communities, while declining 15% in comparison communities of Kansas City, Missouri, and El Paso, Texas (F = 8.6, P = .004) and 1.4% in the United States as a whole.

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Keywords

African American
 
client reminders
 
communities
 
comparison communities
 
Hispanic communities
 
Hispanics
 
human papillomavirus vaccination
 
Kansas City
 
local agents
 
Lower Rio Grande Valley
 
St Louis
 
Texas
 
young women