Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0047-5359

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 8-1-2024

Abstract

This study examined the HPV vaccine landscape in Kenya and the USA with

a focus on if differences exist in the perceptions of HPV knowledge, vaccine

attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, and vaccine

intention among students across country and gender. It also provides useful

findings that can inform the design of persuasive health messages to promote

the uptake of HPV vaccines among college students in Kenya and the USA.

The study used surveys to recruit 1,033 participants (511 Kenyan and 522 USA

students). The two-way MANOVA analysis revealed that the multivariate

main effects showed no significant differences for gender, but the results

revealed a significant main effect for the country. However, the interaction

between gender and country of the participants was not significant. The

univariate analysis revealed that the participants of the two countries had

small significant differences in their subjective norms about HPV vaccination,

and perceived behavioural control. The correlation analysis showed that HPV

knowledge correlates with knowledge about the HPV vaccine and country,

but not with gender. The results also revealed that knowledge about the HPV

vaccine correlates with both gender and country. These results highlight the

most salient predictors of vaccination intentions among college students that

health communicators can focus on when designing and implementing HPV

vaccination campaigns targeting students in Kenya and the USA.

Publication Title

Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa

ISSN

2957-7950

DOI

https://doi.org/10.36615/jcsa. v43i1.2782

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