Trial reportBritish journal of cancer2017
A cluster randomised feasibility study of an adolescent incentive intervention to increase uptake of HPV vaccination.
Trial report in British journal of cancer, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- A systematic review of interventions to promote HPV vaccination globally.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- A school-based educational on-site vaccination intervention for adolescents in an urban area in Germany: feasibility and psychometric properties of instruments in a pilot study.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- Assessing the acceptability of incentivising HPV vaccination consent form return as a means of increasing uptake.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Factors influencing vaccine hesitancy among United Kingdom adolescents in a senior high school environment and actions to address it.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
- Development of an intervention to increase HPV vaccine uptake in Colombia.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2025Article
- Acceptability of human papillomavirus vaccination in the United Kingdom: a systematic review of the literature on uptake of, and barriers and facilitators to HPV vaccination.Therapeutic advances in vaccines and immunotherapy · 2024Review
- Systematic review and meta-analysis comparing educational and reminder digital interventions for promoting HPV vaccination uptake.NPJ digital medicine · 2023Article
- Systematic review of the characteristics of school-based feasibility cluster randomised trials of interventions for improving the health of pupils in the UK.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2022Review
- Factors associated with seasonal influenza and HPV vaccination uptake among different ethnic groups in Arab and Jewish society in Israel.International journal for equity in health · 2021Article
- Review
- Strengthening HPV vaccination delivery: findings from a qualitative service evaluation of the adolescent girls' HPV vaccination programme in England.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Factors Affecting Delivery of the HPV Vaccination: A Focus Group Study With NHS School-Aged Vaccination Teams in London.The Journal of school nursing : the official publication of the National Association of School Nurses · 2020Article
- Burden and Prevention of HPV. Knowledge, Practices and Attitude Assessment Among Pre-Adolescents and their Parents in Italy.Current pharmaceutical design · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundUptake of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is suboptimal among some groups. We aimed to determine the feasibility of undertaking a cluster randomised controlled trial (RCT) of incentives to improve HPV vaccination uptake by increasing consent form return.
methodsAn equal-allocation, two-arm cluster RCT design was used. We invited 60 London schools to participate. Those agreeing were randomised to either a standard invitation or incentive intervention arm, in which Year 8 girls had the chance to win a £50 shopping voucher if they returned a vaccination consent form, regardless of whether consent was provided. We collected data on school and parent participation rates and questionnaire response rates. Analyses were descriptive.
resultsSix schools completed the trial and only 3% of parents opted out. The response rate was 70% for the girls' questionnaire and 17% for the parents'. In the intervention arm, 87% of girls returned a consent form compared with 67% in the standard invitation arm. The proportion of girls whose parents gave consent for vaccination was higher in the intervention arm (76%) than the standard invitation arm (61%).
conclusionsAn RCT of an incentive intervention is feasible. The intervention may improve vaccination uptake but a fully powered RCT is needed.
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