College Men and Women and Their Intent to Receive Genital Human Papillomavirus Vaccine

Keith Richards

SAGE Open, 2016, vol. 6, issue 1, 2158244016629709

Abstract: The study set out to investigate what influences the intentions of college students to get vaccinated against genital human papillomavirus (HPV). College men and women were surveyed to understand their intentions. Regression was used and supported that the constructs of the health belief model (HBM) as well as gender, norms, and information seeking contributed to predicting intent to receive the HPV vaccine, R 2 = .61, F (6, 159) = 39.41, p

Keywords: genital human papillomavirus; health belief model; norms; information seeking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1177/2158244016629709

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