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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to predict HPV vaccination intentions of college men
Hannah Priest Catalano1, Adam P Knowlden2, David A Birch2
1a School of Health and Applied Human Sciences , University of North Carolina Wilmington , Wilmington , North Carolina , USA.
Objective:
The purpose of this study was to test Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) constructs in predicting human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination behavioral intentions of vaccine-eligible college men.
Participants:
Participants were unvaccinated college men aged 18-26 years attending a large public university in the southeastern United States during Spring 2015.
Methods:
A nonexperimental, cross-sectional study design was employed. Instrumentation comprised a qualitative elicitation study, expert panel review, pilot test, test-retest, and internal consistency, construct validity, and predictive validity assessments using data collected from an online self-report questionnaire.
Results:
The sample consisted of 256 college men, and the final structural model exhibited acceptable fit of the data. Attitude toward the behavior (β = .169) and subjective norm (β = 0.667) were significant predictors of behavioral intention, accounting for 58% of its variance.
Conclusions:
Practitioners may utilize this instrument for the development and evaluation of TPB-based interventions to increase HPV vaccination intentions of undergraduate college men.
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