Active Health Education to Increase HPV Vaccine Coverage in Youth: A Stepped-wedge, Cluster, and Randomized Trial

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Conditions studied: Vaccine Refusal, Vaccine Hesitancy

In brief

This study aims to evaluate the impact of active health education methodologies on increasing adherence to the HPV vaccine among schoolchildren. The project will involve 196 schools across Brazil, encompassing a total of 5,000 students. A stepped-wedge implementation design will be applied, with clusters being randomized every two months to one of four interventions. Each intervention will be implemented in 48 schools.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06513494

Run by

Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein

People needed

5000

Starts

2025-03-24

Expected to finish

2026-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-11-18

Who can join

Age: 9 and older, up to 14. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Students of both sexes aged 9 to 14 years old.

You may not qualify if…

• Students with a complete HPV vaccination (two doses) received.
• Criteria for Clusters
• Inclusion Criteria:
• The school has enrolled students aged 9 to 14 years old.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• Schools that do not have students aged between 9 and 14;
• Schools that provided only distance education

Where it is running

• Dom Vicente de Paula Araujo Matos — Crato, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)
• EEIEF Maria Yara de Brito Gonçalves CAIC — Crato, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)
• EEIF Antonio Antuérpio Gonzaga de Melo — Crato, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)
• EEF José Ferreira Menezes — Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)
• EEF Raimundo Pessoa — Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)
• EEF Zila Belem — Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)
• Emef Mário Da Silva Bem — Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)
• Emef Professora Maria de Lourdes Lopes de Sousa — Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)
• EMEIF Maria Do Socorro Cardoso — Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)
• CED 4 do Guará — Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (enrolling)
• CEF 04 Ceilandia — Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (enrolling)
• CEF 2 da estrutural — Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (enrolling)
• CEF 3 da Estrutural — Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (enrolling)
• CEF 4 Guará — Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (enrolling)
• CEF Lobo Guará — Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (enrolling)
• CEF Santos Dumont — Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (enrolling)
• CEF Telebrasília — Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (enrolling)
• CEF Vargem Bonita — Brasília, Federal District, Brazil (enrolling)
• Cei 02 - Prof João Crisóstomo de Figueiredo — Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (enrolling)
• Ee Ana Maria Do Couto — Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (enrolling)
• Ee Mariana Luiza Moreira — Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (enrolling)
• EE PROFª DIVA HUGUENEY DE SIQUEIRA BASTOS — Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (enrolling)
• EE PROFº RAFAEL RUEDA — Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil (enrolling)
• Ee Deputado Milton Figueiredo — Várzea Grande, Mato Grosso, Brazil (enrolling)
• Cel Filemon Fernandes Teles — Crato, Ceará, Brazil (enrolling)

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