A Physician's Recommendation for Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: What Makes African-American Mothers Compliant?

Background: Improving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among African-American (AA) female adolescents to reduce the cervical cancer burden is important and cost-effective. The study objective is to identify factors most influential to AA mothers' likelihood to comply with a physician's recommendation to get their daughters the HPV vaccine.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey.