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Educational comic books may be 'powerful tool' for improving HPV vaccination

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Educational comic books may be 'powerful tool' for improving HPV vaccination Healio An educational comic book about HPV and HPV vaccine improved college students’ attitudes about completing the vaccination process and their intention to do so within one year, according to findings presented during the 2020 Virtual Annual Conference on Vaccinology Research. "Effective communication through timely, complete and appropriate communication is key to successful and sustainable HPV vaccination in communities. Understanding effective messages and methods of dissemination are critical to addressing suboptimal vaccine uptake," explained Obianuju Aguolu, Ph.D., MBBS, MPH, postdoctoral associate of the internal medicine — infectious diseases department at Yale University. Comic books may be effective for health education of diverse groups because they are "easily accessible, low cost, engaging and unobtrusive." READ MORE

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