HPV Vaccination Decision Among Catch-up Population Through a Digital Intervention: Empowering Young Adults to Their Own Health Decision-Making.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection on U.S. college campuses.

A multilevel intervention to promote HPV vaccination among young adults in Texas: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections can cause cancers of the cervix, vagina, vulva, penis, anus, and oropharynx. The most recently approved HPV vaccine, Gardasil-9, protects against HPV infection and can prevent HPV-associated invasive cancers. However, Gardasil-9 is one of the most underused vaccines in the US today.

Improvement in cystic fibrosis newborn screening program outcomes with genetic counseling via telemedicine.

Introduction: The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CF Foundation) recommends the provision of genetic counseling (GC) to help educate families and decrease anxiety around the cystic fibrosis (CF) newborn screening process. Unfortunately, access to genetic counselors is limited, especially for CF trained genetic counselors. We hypothesized that the GC process for families could be improved by utilizing telemedicine to leverage the availability of two dedicated, CF trained genetic counselors to provide access to GC for several CF centers.

Digital HPV education to increase vaccine uptake among low income women.

Objective: The objective of this formative study was to gather women's perspectives in the design and communication modalities of a health kiosk set within a Planned Parenthood setting to promote patient education about the Human papillomavirus (HPV) and to motivate uptake of the HPV vaccine.

Methods: Twenty-four women aged 18-35 participated in in-depth one-on-one interviews at a Planned Parenthood health center, which were analyzed in code-associated categories using NVivo11 Pro.

Results: Most women showed receptivity to using an on-site health kiosk, as well as QR codes linked to text messages, to receive HPV-related health information outside of the clinic setting and reminders.

Understanding underlying moral values and language use of COVID-19 vaccine attitudes on twitter.

Public sentiment toward the COVID-19 vaccine as expressed on social media can interfere with communication by public health agencies on the importance of getting vaccinated. We investigated Twitter data to understand differences in sentiment, moral values, and language use between political ideologies on the COVID-19 vaccine. We estimated political ideology, conducted a sentiment analysis, and guided by the tenets of moral foundations theory (MFT), we analyzed 262,267 English language tweets from the United States containing COVID-19 vaccine-related keywords between May 2020 and October 2021.