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April 15-16, 2019 | Frankfurt, Germany
Oncology Nursing and Cancer Care
16
th
International Conference on
Journal of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics | Volume 4
Tablet-based patient education regarding Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination
for patients in colposcopy clinic - A prospective study of patient knowledge and
satisfaction
Allison Gockley, Nancy Pena, Kelly Welch, Eileen Lind, Sarah Feldman
Harvard Medical School, USA
Objective:
Theaimof thestudy is toassess theefficacy
of electronic tablet-based education regarding
human papilloma virus infection and prophylactic
vaccination among women presenting for their initial
appointment in a specialized pap smear evaluation
clinic.
Methods:
A prospective study was conducted
of all new patients presenting to the pap smear
evaluation clinic. Each new patient was approached
by a patient navigator and, if willing to participate,
took a 4 question pre-test and then completed an
education module on the electronic tablet followed
by a 5 question post-test. The questions and module
focusedon thepathogenesis of cervical abnormalities
and the connection betweenHPV and cervical cancer.
All materials were available in both English and
Spanish.
Results:
Between June 2017 and December 2017
118 patients voluntarily participated in the tablet
education. One-hundred and nine patients (92%)
wereEnglishspeaking. Following thetableteducation,
108 (92%) of women identified cervical cancer as a
problem that can be caused by HPV, as compared to
104women (88%) in the pre-test. Knowledge of head
and neck cancer as a problem that could be caused
by HPV was also increased from 10% to 77%. Before
the module, 76% of women answered that they
would definitively recommend the HPV vaccine for a
child in their family. In the post-test 83% of women
answered “definitely would”. Eighty-nine percent of
patients rated the tablet module as “extremely” or
“very” helpful.
Conclusions:
Tablet-based education improves
patient knowledge of HPV-associated cancers and is
feasible in an outpatient clinic setting.
e
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eileen_duffey-lind@dfci.harvard.e