scholarly journals Newspaper coverage before and after the HPV vaccination crisis began in Japan: a text mining analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsuyoshi Okuhara ◽  
Hirono Ishikawa ◽  
Masafumi Okada ◽  
Mio Kato ◽  
Takahiro Kiuchi
2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 548-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudith Pierre-Victor ◽  
Mary Jo Trepka ◽  
Timothy F. Page ◽  
Tan Li ◽  
Dionne P. Stephens ◽  
...  

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommends routine human papillomavirus (HPV) immunization for 11- to 12-year-old adolescents. In 2008, Louisiana required the school boards to distribute HPV vaccine information to parents or guardian of students in Grades 6 to 12. This article investigates the impact of this policy on HPV vaccination among 13- to 17-year-old female adolescents using National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) data. Drawing on the data from the 2008 to 2012 NIS-Teen, we compared the difference in proportions of females who have been vaccinated before and after the policy. Using difference-indifference estimation, we explored the change in vaccination rates before and after the policy implementation in Louisiana compared with Alabama and Mississippi, two states that did not have such a policy in place. The difference-in-differences estimates for HPV vaccination were not significant. Physician recommendation for HPV vaccination was significantly associated with vaccination among females in Louisiana and Alabama (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] = 7.74; 95% confidence interval [CI; 5.22, 11.5]), and for those in Louisiana and Mississippi (aOR = 7.05; 95% CI [4.6, 10.5]). Compared to the proportion of female adolescents who had received physician recommendation in Alabama or Mississippi, the proportion in Louisiana did not increase significantly in the postpolicy period. HPV vaccination rates did not increase significantly in Louisiana compared to Alabama or Mississippi following the implementation of the policy. Despite Louisiana’s policy, physician recommendation remains the key determinant of HPV vaccination. HPV vaccine awareness does not necessarily result in HPV vaccination.


2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-218
Author(s):  
F Hussain ◽  
MS Flora ◽  
K Nahar ◽  
M Khan

Background: The field of cervical cancer prevention is  rapidly evolving because of identification of Human  Papilloma Virus (HPV) as the necessary cause of disease.  HPV vaccines are now in the market. For successful  triggering of cervical cancer prevention program, HPV  informations should be communicated to health care  providers whose understanding about HPV has lagged  behind the scientific and technical advances.Objective: The objective of this intervention study was to  identify gap and educate health care providers delivering  services to women and adolescents in Medical Colleges on  HPV related issues and vaccination.Methods: The study was done from July 2007 to June 2008  where 3 advocacy workshops were conducted. The  knowledge level of 106 participants were assessed before  and after intervention. Updated informations about HPV  and vaccine was given to participants as intervention.Results: Wide knowledge gap was identified among  participants on HPV related insues, but significant  improvement was observed following intervention. The  pretest and post test score of knowledge was 28.09 and 38.60  respectively showing an average increase of 10 after  intervention.Conclusions: HPV education should be extensively  disseminated to health care providers to obtain public health  benefits of HPV vaccination program. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbcps.v29i4.11329 J Bangladesh Coll Phys Surg 2011; 29: 213-218


2020 ◽  
Vol 110 (S3) ◽  
pp. S305-S311
Author(s):  
Jeanine P. D. Guidry ◽  
Emily K. Vraga ◽  
Linnea I. Laestadius ◽  
Carrie A. Miller ◽  
Aurora Occa ◽  
...  

Objectives. To compare how human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination was portrayed on Pinterest before and after the platform acted to moderate vaccine-related search results to understand (1) what the information environment looked like previously and (2) whether Pinterest’s policy decisions improved this environment in terms of sources and content. Methods. In this quantitative content analysis, we compared 2 samples of 500 HPV vaccine–focused Pinterest posts (“pins”) collected before and after Pinterest’s actions to provide more reliable vaccine-related information. Pins were based on search results and were analyzed using the Health Belief Model. Results. The majority of preaction search results leaned toward vaccine skepticism, specifically focused on perceived vaccine barriers. Few pins were published by public health–related Pinterest accounts. Postaction search results showed a significant shift to HPV vaccination benefits, and the number of pins by government or medical accounts increased. However, the proportion of pins in search results containing HPV content of any type was significantly lower. Conclusions. Pinterest’s efforts to moderate vaccination discussions were largely successful. However, the ban also appeared to limit HPV vaccination search results overall, which may contribute to confusion or an information vacuum.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Ogilvie ◽  
Robine Donken ◽  
Heather Pedersen ◽  
Julie Bettinger ◽  
Ran Goldman ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 220-236
Author(s):  
Ainis Azreen Rosli ◽  
◽  
Mohd Azizuddin Mohd Sani ◽  

This article explores the mainstream media favorability towards political parties in the context of newspaper coverage in Malaysia during the 14th general election in 2018 (GE-14). The newspapers selected for this study are three Malay, two English, two Mandarin and two Tamil newspapers namely: 'Utusan Malaysia,' 'Berita Harian', 'Sinar Harian', 'New Straits Times', 'The Star', 'Nanyang Siang Pau', 'Sin Chew Daily', 'Nanban' and 'Osai'. The background of the newspapers was explored in order to understand the ownerships and approaches in covering the news about GE-14. This study was carried out in two separate phases, in which the data were derived from both periods before and after the GE-14. The data were classified into few categories based on reports on Barisan Nasional (BN), Pakatan Harapan (PH), Gagasan Sejahtera (GS) through the frequencies and percentages of the positive, negative, and neutral forms of coverage. The result of this study implies that in 2018, most of the mainstream media reporting was pro-government, which attributed to the linkage to political parties. Surprisingly, the unprecedented victory of the opposition can be seen to relate to the growth of positive coverage towards Pakatan Harapan, subsequently after the general election. Through content analysis of these selected newspapers, the author discussed gender-related coverage and general issues during the chosen period of the study. Keywords: Mainstream media, media ownership, political partisanship, general election, Malaysia.


2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Rahimian ◽  
Jeremy L. Warner ◽  
Sandeep K. Jain ◽  
Roger B. Davis ◽  
Jessica A. Zerillo ◽  
...  

PURPOSE OpenNotes is a national movement established in 2010 that gives patients access to their visit notes through online patient portals, and its goal is to improve transparency and communication. To determine whether granting patients access to their medical notes will have a measurable effect on provider behavior, we developed novel methods to quantify changes in the length and frequency of use of n-grams (sets of words used in exact sequence) in the notes. METHODS We analyzed 102,135 notes of 36 hematology/oncology clinicians before and after the OpenNotes debut at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. We applied methods to quantify changes in the length and frequency of use of sequential co-occurrence of words ( n-grams) in the unstructured content of the notes by unsupervised hierarchical clustering and proportional analysis of n-grams. RESULTS The number of significant n-grams averaged over all providers did not change, but for individual providers, there were significant changes. That is, all significant observed changes were provider specific. We identified eight providers who were late note signers. This group significantly reduced its late signing behavior after OpenNotes implementation. CONCLUSION Although the number of significant n-grams averaged over all providers did not change, our text-mining method detected major content changes in specific providers’ documentation at the n-gram level. The method successfully identified a group of providers who decreased their late note signing behavior.


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