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Mothers' Pap screening and STD history associated With daughters' uptake, completion of HPV vaccine.

Publication: Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Mothers' Pap screening and STD history associated With daughters' uptake, completion of HPV vaccine.(Digests)(sexually transmitted diseases)(human papillomavirus)

Article Excerpt
Mothers' attitudes toward prevention, and history of abnormal Pap test results or STDs, are strongly linked to whether their daughters receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. Adolescent women were more likely to begin receiving the quadrivalent HPV vaccine if their mothers had had a Pap test in the previous three years, had had an abnormal Pap test result or had a history of STDs (odds ratios, 1.1-1.5), according to a study of mother-daughter pairs belonging to a large health care organization in Southern California. (1) Daughters of women who had had a recent Pap test also had increased odds of completing the three-dose regimen (1.4), as did those whose mothers had had abnormal test results or had a history of genital or anal warts (1.2 and 1.3, respectively).

Data were drawn from the electronic health...

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