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Study aim
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Determining the effect of educational intervention based on protection motivation theory on mothers' health literacy about human papilloma virus and intention to vaccinate teenage girls
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Design
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Randomized controlled clinical trial
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Settings and conduct
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The study will be conducted on women covered by community health service centers affiliated with Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences. First, two centers are randomly selected, then the samples are randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups based on a block of 4. First, a demographic information questionnaire, a researcher-made HPV health literacy questionnaire, a protection motivation and vaccination intention questionnaire are completed for both groups. Then, a 4-session educational intervention is held for mothers in the intervention group. The duration of each educational session is set to 45 minutes and the interval between sessions is set to one week. The questionnaire is completed for both groups immediately and 4 weeks after the intervention.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: Being Iranian, living in the city of Neyshabur, Literacy, age range of mothers 25-50 years and daughters 9-15 years, not participating in similar studies, no history of receiving HPV vaccine in girls, single girl, no severe stressful event in the past 6 months؛ Exclusion criteria: Mother's employment in healthcare systems,contraindications to receiving the human papillomavirus vaccine in girls
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Intervention groups
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Eligible persons are divided into two groups. An educational intervention group based on the protection motivation model received 4 weekly training sessions, and the control group without educational intervention only filled pre-test and post-test questionnaires.
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Main outcome variables
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mothers' HPV health literacy, vaccination intention