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Table 5 Degree of importance the mothers rated the message points when making a decision concerning their daughters’ actual HPV vaccination

From: Development of an efficient strategy to improve HPV immunization coverage in Japan

  1. Group A: Mothers who would vaccinate their daughters without preconditions, even under recommendation suspension (Group A-willing), and those who would vaccinate their daughters immediately after a recommendation restart, without other preconditions (Group A-restart) Group B: Mothers who would vaccinate their daughters only after inoculation of close friends and acquaintances Group C: Mothers who would vaccinate their daughters only after inoculation of many other girls of the same age group Group D: Mothers who would stipulate other preconditions before they will vaccinate their daughters Group E: Mothers who wouldn’t inoculate their daughters under any circumstances The answers for each question were scored and the average score was compared for each group. Scoring was as follows: Very applicable: 2, Applicable: 1, Intermediate: 0, Inapplicable: -1, Not applicable at all: -2