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To date, there have been no interventional studies aimed at increasing HPV vaccination rates by making use of digital and involving all stakeholders within this process: nurses, physicians, caregivers, parents, and children/adolescents according to the PPI principle.
The primary objective of the project is to identify the effectiveness of a digital educational intervention, conducted by a multidisciplinary healthcare team and targeting adolescents of both sexes in secondary schools. The outcome measures will be: engagement, increased knowledge and self-efficacy, and vaccination uptake.
This project will identify new models for addressing public health needs. The secondary aim is to evaluate parents' attitudes toward vaccination pre- and post-intervention education.
A quasi-experimental, pre-post educational intervention study will be conducted by adopting a convenience sampling will be adopted at secondary schools in Bari (Puglia, Italy).
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The study will be carried out in a multiphasic mode. All steps are described below.
Description of the educational intervention
The educational intervention will be provided (at T1) in two ways:
(I) a video lecture in e-learning mode lasting about an hour, aimed at adolescents, using the School Institute's platform for distance education, using audiovisual systems and slide presentations in Power Point format; learner-learner interactions will be possible through e-mail messages, real-time individual chats and asynchronous discussion forum conversations including comment sections.. The event will be recorded so that both adolescents and parents can access it at their convenience.
The educational content will generally take into account the following topic areas: a) basic information on HPV, modes of prevention and contagion, vaccination and sexual health; b) epidemiology on cervical cancer, incidence and mortality rates; c) preventive measures (vaccines, condoms, screening tests); and d) discussion with privileged witnesses who have experienced contagion.
No form of clinical counseling will be carried out during the video lectures. (II) the promotion of 2-minute "videopills" on the social channels most frequently used by students (dedicated youtube channel/school portal) in which clinical experts (pediatrician, hygienist, health care assistant, and CN) will raise awareness of the importance of HPV vaccination in adolescents, providing brief information on modes of transmission, prevention, and health effects of the virus.
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800 participants in 2 patient groups
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Giancarlo Cicolini; Pasquale Stefanizzi
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