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Background: Understanding parents’ decisions or intentions regarding HPV vaccination for their daughters in Jakarta, Indonesia is important, and provides insight into factors that have contributed to uptake to inform future program development. Method: This research is a concurrent mixed method study. In the quantitative component, 680 parents or guardians of year 6 female students from 33 primary schools who were offered free HPV vaccination were invited to complete a questionnaire. Multivariate multilevel logistic regression analysis was done in two groups: the ‘Decided’ Group (those p...

The Indonesian government has provided free HPV vaccines for female students in years 5–6 in Jakarta since 2016. We examined parents’ beliefs, attitudes and intentions to allow their daughters to receive the HPV vaccine, as well as the uptake of the vaccine. This cross-sectional study was conducted between September and November 2019 in Jakarta. We invited 680 parents or guardians of year 6 female students from 33 primary schools who were offered the free HPV vaccine to complete a questionnaire; 484 (71%) responded. Analysis was done in two groups: the ‘Decided’ Group (those parents wh...