Interventions simultaneously targeting parents through educational brochures and students through teacher-based interventions enhanced adolescent vaccine acceptance among predominantly African American adolescents attending middle school and high school, according to findings presented during the 2013 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Meeting.
Lisa M. Gargano, PhD, of the department of medicine, division of infectious diseases at Emory University, and colleagues evaluated results from the first-year implementation of a multicomponent intervention intended to enhance adolescent vaccine acceptance in one county in Georgia.
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