HPV vaccination and sexual health in France: Empowering girls to decide

Vaccine
Hervé LefèvreJonathan Lachal

Abstract

Vaccination coverage against HPV in France is among the lowest in the industrialized world, although the public authorities have recently become aware of this issue. Few studies have looked at teenaged girls' representations of this vaccination, even though they are the most concerned by it. This qualitative study explored the experiences and representations of HPV vaccination by adolescent girls seeing doctors at least occasionally. We used a written essay question to explore this issue among 101 adolescent girls at six urban medical centers and a semi-structured interview to discuss it in further depth with five of them. The analysis was lexicometric (ALCESTE®) and phenomenological (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis). These results are organized around four superordinate themes: the teenage girls' factual knowledge about this vaccine, their motives for and obstacles to vaccination, their involvement in this decision, and finally the need for information about and solutions to this issue. Teenage girls know little about this vaccine and are more sensitive to the emotional discourse that surrounds it than to rational knowledge about it. The requirement for parental authorization for this vaccine reinforces the girls' lac...Continue Reading

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May 25, 2020·Infectious Diseases and Therapy·Ashish AgrawalAshish Mathur
Dec 19, 2020·Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology·Christine Rousset-JablonskiIsabelle Durieu
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