Testing the Persuasiveness of Pro-inoculation Arguments
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Conditions studied: Vaccination Hesitancy, Human Papillomavirus Vaccination, Vaccine Refusal
In brief
The investigators will recruit a national sample of parents of 7-10-year-olds to complete an argument strength ranking for either a simple forwarding message or between 3 and 6 randomly selected arguments from an overall set of 50 to 100 messages identified from various online sources. Parents will rate each message they see on measures of perceived argument strength/PME. Parents will also answer sociodemographic questions and then rank the believability of a set of anti-vaccine messages identified in a different study. Study findings will contribute valuable information to understanding the effectiveness of different inoculation messages.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05804825
- Run by
- University of Pennsylvania
- People needed
- 523
- Starts
- 2023-05-04
- Expected to finish
- 2023-05-24
- Last updated by the study team
- 2023-07-11
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Male or female parent or legal guardian of an adolescent ages 7-10
- Age eligible child has not yet received any doses of the HPV vaccine
- Resides in the United States
- English speaking
- Completed informed consent
You may not qualify if…
- Unable to read English at a 6th grade literacy level
- Age < 18
- Does not have a child within the age range of 7-10
- Age-eligible child has received 1 or more doses of the HPV vaccine
- Does not have a social media account on one or more of the following platforms OR does not read online news stories: Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook (feasibility testing only - survey participation will not have this exclusion criteria)
- Unwilling or unable to provide informed consent to study participation
Where it is running
- UPenn — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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