Effects of socioeconomic status and health care access on low levels of human papillomavirus vaccination among Spanish-speaking Hispanics in California.
cross_sectional · Level IV
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- Also identified by DOI 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300920 and PMC identifier 3558782.
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Abstract
Little is known about the effect of language preference, socioeconomic status, and health care access on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. We examined these factors in Hispanic parents of daughters aged 11 to 17 years in California (n = 1090). Spanish-speaking parents were less likely to have their daughters vaccinated than were English speakers (odds ratio [OR] = 0.55; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.31, 0.98). Adding income and access to multivariate analyses made language nonsignificant (OR = 0.68; 95% CI = 0.35, 1.29). This confirms that health care use is associated with language via income and access. Low-income Hispanics, who lack access, need information about free HPV vaccination programs.
Medical subject headings
- Health Services Accessibility
- Language
- Papillomavirus Infections
- Papillomavirus Vaccines
- Social Class
- Uterine Cervical Neoplasms