VIDEO: Increasing HPV vaccination using ‘boot camp translation’
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In this video from the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Sean T. O’Leary, MD, MPH, describes a novel method of participatory research that improved HPV vaccine uptake in six Colorado pediatric practices.
Several previous interventions have been shown to increase flagging HPV vaccine rates, including moving HPV vaccine initiation to age 9 or 10 years and reframing the shot as a cancer vaccine.
“We have a handful of things we know work,” O’Leary said, “but there’s always room for more.”
In the videos, O’Leary, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and chair of the AAP’s Committee on Infectious Diseases, explains how “boot camp translation” helped the researchers leverage the participation of clinical and nonclinical staff, parents and teens at six pediatric practices in three Colorado counties to increase their HPV vaccination rates.
“I think this is a promising method to look at in other settings,” O’Leary said. “We're hoping to look at it for the kindergarten series of vaccines, and we're also looking to expand it into a larger trial for HPV vaccines as well.”
References:
O’Leary ST, et al. Boot camp translation: A novel method to increase human papillomavirus vaccination uptake. Presented at: Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting; May 2-6, 2024; Toronto.
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