Trial reportPatient education and counseling2010
Effective or ineffective: attribute framing and the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.
Trial report in Patient education and counseling, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Behavioral interventions for vaccination uptake: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Health policy (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Pooled it
- A systematic review of sexual health interventions for adults: narrative evidence.Journal of sex research · 2015Pooled it
- Risk communication in cataract surgery.BMJ open ophthalmology · 2024Trial
- When do persuasive messages on vaccine safety steer COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and recommendations? Behavioural insights from a randomised controlled experiment in Malaysia.BMJ global health · 2022Trial
- The influence of message framing on nocebo headaches: Findings from a randomized laboratory design.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Trial
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- To vape or not to vape? Effects of exposure to conflicting news headlines on beliefs about harms and benefits of electronic cigarette use: Results from a randomized controlled experiment.Preventive medicine · 2017Trial
- Differences in simulated doctor and patient medical decision making: a construal level perspective.PloS one · 2013Trial
- Influential Factors when Making Decisions About Dementia Medications in Memory Assessment Services; a Focused Ethnography and Interview Study.Journal of geriatric psychiatry and neurology · 2026Article
- The influence of national origin cues in HPV vaccination advertising: An eye-tracking study of visual attention and vaccine perception using quantitative and qualitative analysis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
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- Personality Traits Associated with Treatment Choice with an Explicit Statistical Prediction After an Explanation in a Negative Context: A Study in Patients with Glaucoma.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
- Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy for Future COVID-19 and HIV Vaccines: Lessons from Measles and HPV Vaccines.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2022Review
- Positive Attribute Framing Increases COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Intention for Unfamiliar Vaccines.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Message framing and COVID-19 vaccination intention: Moderating roles of partisan media use and pre-attitudes about vaccination.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Willingness to vaccinate against SARS-CoV-2: The role of reasoning biases and conspiracist ideation.Vaccine · 2022Article
- Using Positive Attribute Framing to Attenuate Nocebo Side Effects: A Cybersickness Study.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2021Article
- Training in statistical analysis reduces the framing effect among medical students and residents in Argentina.Journal of educational evaluation for health professions · 2020Article
- Communicating the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of government policies and their impact on public support: a systematic review with meta-analysis.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Understanding the role of the news media in HPV vaccine uptake in the United States: Synthesis and commentary.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo experimentally test whether presenting logically equivalent, but differently valenced effectiveness information (i.e. attribute framing) affects perceived effectiveness of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, vaccine-related intentions and policy opinions.
methodsA survey-based experiment (N=334) was fielded in August and September 2007 as part of a larger ongoing web-enabled monthly survey, the Annenberg National Health Communication Survey. Participants were randomly assigned to read a short passage about the HPV vaccine that framed vaccine effectiveness information in one of five ways. Afterward, they rated the vaccine and related opinion questions. Main statistical methods included ANOVA and t-tests.
resultsOn average, respondents exposed to positive framing (70% effective) rated the HPV vaccine as more effective and were more supportive of vaccine mandate policy than those exposed to the negative frame (30% ineffective) or the control frame. Mixed valence frames showed some evidence for order effects; phrasing that ended by emphasizing vaccine ineffectiveness showed similar vaccine ratings to the negative frame.
conclusionThe experiment finds that logically equivalent information about vaccine effectiveness not only influences perceived effectiveness, but can in some cases influence support for policies mandating vaccine use. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: These framing effects should be considered when designing messages.
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