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Nurses are on the frontlines of healthcare and play a critical role in promoting HPV vaccination and parent-child sexual health communication. Participants were recruited from 22 after-school programs e. For parents, we examined protective factors including parent-child sexual health communication and parental involvement. For youth, we examined sexual health knowledge, parent-child sexual health communication, and parent-child connectedness. Baseline rates of HPV vaccination were low at No significant difference between the groups was seen in vaccination initiation or completion rates by one-month post-intervention.
However, by six-months post intervention, there was a significant difference between the groups with No difference between the groups was found for HPV series completion at six-months.
Rates of sexual activity remained low in both groups throughout the six-month follow-up period. A brief parent-based adolescent sexual health and HPV vaccination intervention delivered by student nurses can improve sexual health outcomes including protective parental factors, adolescent sexual health knowledge, and HPV vaccination initiation rates.
Prospectively r egistered September 1, Keywords: Human papillomavirus, HPV vaccine, Parent-child sexual health communication, Parental connectedness, Adolescent sexual behavior. Puberty is considered the beginning of human sexual development consisting of physical and emotional maturity marking the transition from childhood to adulthood.
