Who made this website

The content of this website was developed from projects undertaken with support from the Health Protection Unit in Evaluation and Behavioural Science at the University of Bristol.

Addressing young people’s information needs

The work was funded by the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) Public Health Intervention Development (PHIND) Programme and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).

To address information needs among young people, we used co-production research methodologies and the person-based approach to develop a lesson about the HPV vaccine with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and diverse ethnic groups.

The resources for the EDUCATE lesson include films and exercises to assist learning, along with supporting the delivery of the HPV vaccination programme by providing young people with information and answering questions they may have. It prepares them to be vaccinated at school and helps them make the decision to be vaccinated or not. It is designed to be delivered before the school-based HPV vaccination session begins and can be delivered by different professionals, including teachers and immunisation nurses.

Publications

  1. Fisher H, Audrey S, Chantler T, et al Co-production of an educational package for the universal human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme tailored for schools with low uptake: a participatory study protocol BMJOpen 2020;10:e039029. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039029
  2. Fisher H, Chantler T, Mounier-Jack S, & Audrey S. Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine communication tools for young people: A content analysis. Health Education Journal, April 2022. 10.1177/00178969221092135 2022.
  3. Fisher H, Chantler T, Finn A, Hickman M, Letley L, Mounier-Jack S, Thomas C, & Worthington K, Yates, J, & Audrey S. Development of an educational package for the English universal human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme: a co-production study with young people and key stakeholders. (2022) BMC Research Involve & Engagement. 8, 16 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40900-022-00349-7
  4. Fisher H, Audrey S, Chantler T, Dominey M, Evans K, Henden L, et al. Towards successful implementation of public health research into practice: Experiences and lessons learned from EDUCATE. Public Health in Practice 2023 Vol. 6 Pages 100447 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2023.100447

Improving communication with parents

The study was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB).

We carried out a project which aims to co-design an intervention to improve parental confidence, and increase adolescent’s access to the HPV vaccination programme. As part of this, we have developed a series of films about the HPV vaccine. The content, style and format of the COMMUNICATE films are intended to address vaccine misinformation and were informed by the preferences of vaccine hesitant, ethnically diverse parents.

Publications

  1. Fisher H, Chantler T, Denford S, Finn A, Hickman M, Mounier-Jack S, Roderick M, Tucker L, Yates, J, Audrey S. Development of a multicomponent intervention to increase parental vaccine confidence and young people’s access to the universal HPV vaccination programme in England: protocol for a co-design study. BMJ Open. 2022 Apr 6;12(4):e062050. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-062050
  2. Fisher H, Denford S, Chantler T, et al Developing films to support vaccine-hesitant, ethnically diverse parents’ decision-making about the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine: a codesign study BMJ Open 2024;14:e079539. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-079539
  3. Fisher H, Denford S, Audrey S, et al. Information needs of ethnically diverse, vaccine-hesitant parents during decision-making about the HPV vaccine for their adolescent child: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health 24, 91 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17540-4