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Article: STI vaccines: efficacy is most important to parents: parents respond positively about vaccines, even those that target sexually transmitted infections.(Infectious Diseases)(sexually transmitted infections)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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Parents of adolescents appear to accept the idea of vaccinating their teens against sexually transmitted infections, expressing the most concern about the efficacy of the vaccine and the severity of the infection it could prevent, rather than the mode of transmission, Gregory D. Zimet, Ph.D., and his colleagues have reported.
Some surveys have suggested that physicians and others who provide care to adolescents might be reluctant to recommend STI vaccines, perhaps because of concerns about how parents might react. "The high acceptability ratings reported by most parents in this study suggest that most parents would not react negatively to the suggestion," said ...