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Home > The behind-the-scenes activity of parental decision-making discourse regarding childhood vaccination

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 16:05
Authors 
Gesser-Edelsburg A, Walter N, Shir-Raz Y, Sassoni Bar-Lev O, Rosenblat S.
Target 
Decision Makers [1]
Government and Public Health [2]
Healthcare Professionals [3]
Topic 
Stakeholders [4]
Vaccination [5]
Tags 
Antivaccination parents [6]
hesitant parents [7]
provaccination [8]
risk communication [9]

Gesser-Edelsburg A, Walter N, Shir-Raz Y, Sassoni Bar-Lev O, Rosenblat S.  Am J Infect Control. 2017 Mar 1;45(3):267-271. 

Background: Vaccine compliance has long been a cause for concern for health authorities throughout the world. However very little effort has been made to examine parental discourse during the decision-making process.

Methods: An online survey was conducted (N = 437) to examine predictors of parents' attitudes regarding childhood vaccination.

Results: Hesitant parents were 4 times more likely to conduct intrafamily discussion regarding vaccination compared with provaccination parents (Exp[B] = 4.26). There were no significant differences between hesitant and antivaccination parents with respect to intrafamily discussion. Hesitant parents were also 4 times more likely than provaccination parents to report intrafamily disagreements regarding vaccination (Exp[B] = 4.27). They were also twice as likely as antivaccination parents to express disagreements regarding vaccination within their families (Exp[B] = 2.33). Likewise, Jewish parents were significantly more likely to define themselves as vaccination-hesitant, whereas Muslim parents were significantly more likely to be provaccination.

Conclusion: To improve the way health organizations communicate information about vaccines and increase parental trust in immunization programs, we should not only look at the level of understanding, perceptions, and biases of different groups, but also thoroughly examine parents' decision-making processes and the discourse during this process. We must communicate risk to all groups, including the provaccination group, to improve parents' decision making and the process of informed consent.

Link to full text [10]

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612236.

Source URL: http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/outputs/published-papers/behind-scenes-activity-parental-decision-making-discourse-regarding

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[1] http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/target/decision-makers
[2] http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/target/government-and-public-health
[3] http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/target/healthcare-professionals
[4] http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/topic/stakeholders
[5] http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/topic/vaccination
[6] http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/tags/antivaccination-parents
[7] http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/tags/hesitant-parents
[8] http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/tags/provaccination
[9] http://www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu/tags/risk-communication
[10] http://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(16)30962-2/abstract