ArticleArchives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique2024
Barriers and facilitators to the HPV vaccine: a multicenter qualitative study of French general practitioners.
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- Healthcare worker practices for HPV vaccine recommendation: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Pooled it
- One-year impact on HPV vaccination coverage of a school- and primary care-based intervention: the PrevHPV cluster randomised trial.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Perceptions of HPV vaccination: a qualitative study with adolescents, parents, school staff, and pharmacists.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- HPV Vaccination in Romania: Attitudes, Practice, and Knowledge Among Frontline Healthcare Providers.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- Iranian women's perceptions of human papillomavirus and barriers to vaccination: a qualitative study based on the health belief model.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Co-designing a shared digital decision aid for HPV vaccination in French general practice.BMC primary care · 2025Article
- Strategies, Barriers, and Facilitators for Healthcare Professionals to Recommend HPV Vaccination: A Systematic Review.Vaccines · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundIn France, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination coverage is low, with 30.7% of 17-year-old girls having received a complete HPV vaccination schedule in 2020.
aimTo determine the perspective and behaviors of general practitioners (GPs) regarding HPV vaccination with their patients and if a reluctance is observed. DESIGN AND
settingA qualitative study based on semi-directed individual interviews was conducted between December 2019 and December 2020. A representative sample of GPs with various profiles were included in 4 French regions.
methodA purposive sampling was used and interviews were continued until data saturation was reached. The analysis was based on the grounded theory.
resultsTwenty-six GPs aged 29-66 years were interviewed. The measures taken by the French health authorities (lowering the target age, reimbursing the vaccine, extending the target population to boys) were perceived as facilitators. The reported barriers were organizational, due to low attendance of adolescents, and relational, mainly due to parental vaccine hesitancy. Physicians had to deal with fears about the perceived risks and concerns about sexuality conveyed by HPV vaccination and linked to the socio-cultural characteristics of the families. Physicians developed strategies, including scientific knowledge mobilization, empowerment of families by promoting health through prevention, repetition of the vaccination proposals, personal experience and relationship. Different practices were identified according to three GP typologies: effective, convinced but unpersuasive, and reluctant physicians.
conclusionBased on these results, specific interventions, including communication techniques, especially for hesitant or unpersuasive physicians, are needed to enable GPs to become more effective.
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