title: HPV vaccine acceptance among adolescent males and their parents in two suburban pediatric practices.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To measure HPV vaccine acceptance among unvaccinated adolescent males and parents and correlate acceptance with knowledge, awareness, and personal experience.
  
  
  METHODS
  Adolescent males ages 11-21 years old and their parents completed questionnaires measuring attitudes and knowledge about HPV vaccination and personal experience. Acceptance was defined as wanting the vaccine and conditional acceptance as wanting the vaccine if it would protect against genital warts or cervical cancer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Adolescent (n=154) and parent (n=121) vaccine acceptance was low (16% and 34%, respectively); however, conditional acceptance was higher. While adolescents had similar conditional acceptance for a vaccine against genital warts and cervical cancer, parents reported higher conditional acceptance for protection against genital warts. Independent predictors of acceptance included personal experience and demographic variables.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  HPV vaccine acceptance among adolescents and parents was low. Conditional acceptance levels highlight the importance of education about a few important benefits of HPV vaccination, which may increase vaccination rates.
authors: Department of Neurology, Children's National Medical Center, 111 Michigan Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA; Sinai Hospital Baltimore, 2401W Belvedere Ave, Baltimore, MD 21215, USA. Electronic address: SKhurana@childrensnational.org.
authors: Shalinee
authors: S
authors: Khurana
authors: Department of Women, Children and Family Health Science, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing, 845 S. Damen Ave. MC 802, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.. Electronic address: Sipsmah@uic.edu.
authors: Heather L
authors: HL
authors: Sipsma
authors: Departments of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 S. Wood St MC 856, Chicago, IL 60612, U.S.A.. Electronic address: RCaskey@uic.edu.
authors: Rachel N
authors: RN
authors: Caskey
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003218:Condylomata Acuminata / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D030361:Papillomavirus Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014611:Vaccination; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D053918:Papillomavirus Vaccines
keywords: Adolescent male; Attitudes; Cervical cancer; Genital warts; HPV vaccine; Vaccine acceptance