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Examining word association networks: A cross-country comparison of women’s perceptions of HPV testing and vaccination
In this study, we examined the perceptual associations women hold with regard to cervical cancer testing and vaccination across two countries, the U.S. and Australia. In a large-scale online survey, we presented participants with ‘trigger’ words, and asked them to state sequentially other words that...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28982130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185669 |
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author | Schmid, Bernd C. Carlson, Jamie Rezniczek, Günther A. Wyllie, Jessica Jaaback, Kenneth Vencovsky, Filip |
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description | In this study, we examined the perceptual associations women hold with regard to cervical cancer testing and vaccination across two countries, the U.S. and Australia. In a large-scale online survey, we presented participants with ‘trigger’ words, and asked them to state sequentially other words that came to mind. We used this data to construct detailed term co-occurrence network graphs, which we analyzed using basic topological ranking techniques. The results showed that women hold divergent perceptual associations regarding trigger words relating to cervical cancer screening tools, i.e. human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and vaccination, which indicate health knowledge deficiencies with non-HPV related associations emerging from the data. This result was found to be consistent across the country groups studied. Our findings are critical in optimizing consumer education and public service announcements to minimize misperceptions relating to HPV testing and vaccination in order to maximize adoption of cervical cancer prevention tools. |
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spelling | pubmed-56288492017-10-20 Examining word association networks: A cross-country comparison of women’s perceptions of HPV testing and vaccination Schmid, Bernd C. Carlson, Jamie Rezniczek, Günther A. Wyllie, Jessica Jaaback, Kenneth Vencovsky, Filip PLoS One Research Article In this study, we examined the perceptual associations women hold with regard to cervical cancer testing and vaccination across two countries, the U.S. and Australia. In a large-scale online survey, we presented participants with ‘trigger’ words, and asked them to state sequentially other words that came to mind. We used this data to construct detailed term co-occurrence network graphs, which we analyzed using basic topological ranking techniques. The results showed that women hold divergent perceptual associations regarding trigger words relating to cervical cancer screening tools, i.e. human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and vaccination, which indicate health knowledge deficiencies with non-HPV related associations emerging from the data. This result was found to be consistent across the country groups studied. Our findings are critical in optimizing consumer education and public service announcements to minimize misperceptions relating to HPV testing and vaccination in order to maximize adoption of cervical cancer prevention tools. Public Library of Science 2017-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5628849/ /pubmed/28982130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185669 Text en © 2017 Schmid et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Schmid, Bernd C. Carlson, Jamie Rezniczek, Günther A. Wyllie, Jessica Jaaback, Kenneth Vencovsky, Filip Examining word association networks: A cross-country comparison of women’s perceptions of HPV testing and vaccination |
title | Examining word association networks: A cross-country comparison of women’s perceptions of HPV testing and vaccination |
title_full | Examining word association networks: A cross-country comparison of women’s perceptions of HPV testing and vaccination |
title_fullStr | Examining word association networks: A cross-country comparison of women’s perceptions of HPV testing and vaccination |
title_full_unstemmed | Examining word association networks: A cross-country comparison of women’s perceptions of HPV testing and vaccination |
title_short | Examining word association networks: A cross-country comparison of women’s perceptions of HPV testing and vaccination |
title_sort | examining word association networks: a cross-country comparison of women’s perceptions of hpv testing and vaccination |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5628849/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28982130 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185669 |
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