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Research has been done on vaccinations and also imparticular the Gardasil vaccination over the years. Vaccinations are administrated all over the world for preventative measures such as for the prevention of cancer. The purpose of this study is to explorer the knowledge and attitudes of parents of middle school age. This researcher plans to determine if the attitudes and knowledge of parents impacts whether or not their children receive the Gardasil vaccination.

Research Design

The research being conducted will be a quantitative experimental study (Gray, Grove, & Sutherland, 2017). A questionnaire will be distributed, by a middle school faculty teacher. The questionnaire will be disseminated after the IRB is cleared by the school board and a presentation and teaching on what the project is regarding, then the questionnaire will be distributed by faculty to the parents of the middle school children. The middle school children are between the ages of 11-15years of age. The parents will have a time frame of one week to complete the short questionnaires’ and send the completed forms back with their child to the teacher. The completed forms will be picked up by this researcher to ascertain review the results. According to the schoolboard data obtained, there is over 700 middle school children attending this one site.

Sampling design

A nonprobability convenience sampling design will be utilized with this study in order to select the participants which was constructed to focus on the hypothesis or question: What is the Knowledge and Attitudes towards Gardasil Vaccination among Parents for Their Children? (Gray, Grove, & Sutherland, 2017) The participants are parents of children at one middle school within the state of Florida. The sample is a non-probability sample because the individuals involved in this study would have to be parents of the children at the middle school the questionnaires’ were distributed at. All participants will have an equal opportunity to participate in said study indicated. The sample will consist of 25 or more participants. The participants can be of any race, age or gender. Exclusion criteria for participating in this research study include if the parents do not have middle school aged children at this middle school which the questionnaires were distributed.

References Gray, J. R., Grove, S. K., & Sutherland, S. (2017). Nursing Research (8th ed.). Philadelphia: Saunders.