COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Among 5 - 11-year-old Iranian Children’s Parents: What Are Underlying Beliefs?

Mollaie, Maryam; Mirahmadizadeh, Alireza; Dashti, Anahita Sanaei; Jalalpour, Amir Hossein; Jafari, Khoubyar

doi:10.5812/pedinfect-132673

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“…Additionally, other studies have generally examined associations between perceived knowledge (or information) and parents’ intentions to vaccinate their children, 28 and adaptive-maladaptive responses and parents’ intentions to vaccinate their children. 38 …”

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“…Some of the most common beliefs for not vaccinating children were future adverse effects of the vaccines including undesirable effects on children’s growth and future fertility. 38 Therefore, the findings of this study could be important to health experts and authorities regarding how to convey to parents information about vaccinations, specifically for COVID-19 and possibly other infectious diseases. To understand the reasons underlying parents’ intention to vaccinate their children, this study examined (1) associations between variables (i.e., perceived knowledge, coping appraisals, threat appraisals, adaptive responses, maladaptive responses, and intentions), and (2) possible variance across parents (mother or father) and COVID-19-like symptoms experiences regarding intentions to vaccinate their children.…”

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confidence: 92%

“… 37 However, parents’ hesitancy for the COVID-19 vaccine seemed to extend to children, although most Iranian parents had received COVID-19 vaccinations (i.e., 82.8% of mothers and 84.3% of fathers were vaccinated with 2–3 doses). 38 According to the head of the infectious disease management center of the Ministry of Health in Iran, the coverage of corona vaccination among the age group of 5–11 y is not very acceptable (maximum 10% of the age group) compared to those aged 12–18 y (75% of the age group) and above 18 y. 38 It seems that Iranian parents had doubts about vaccination and fear of its possible adverse effects on children under 12 y old.…”

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“… 38 According to the head of the infectious disease management center of the Ministry of Health in Iran, the coverage of corona vaccination among the age group of 5–11 y is not very acceptable (maximum 10% of the age group) compared to those aged 12–18 y (75% of the age group) and above 18 y. 38 It seems that Iranian parents had doubts about vaccination and fear of its possible adverse effects on children under 12 y old. Some of the most common beliefs for not vaccinating children were future adverse effects of the vaccines including undesirable effects on children’s growth and future fertility.…”

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Parental intention on getting children COVID-19 vaccinations: Invariance evaluation across parenting roles and COVID-19-like symptoms experiences among Iranians during the pandemic period

Ahorsu,

Potenza,

Lin

et al. 2024

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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Countries worldwide are facing challenges with increasing the COVID-19 vaccination rates for children. This study examined associations between perceived knowledge, coping appraisal, threat appraisal, adaptive response, maladaptive response, and intention, and possible variance across parents (mother or father) and COVID-19-like symptoms experiences regarding parental intentions to vaccinate their children. A total of 836 Iranian parents with children between the ages of 6 and 12 y completed measures assessing perceived knowledge, coping appraisals, threat appraisals, intentions, adaptive responses, and maladaptive responses. Multigroup structural equation modeling revealed that perceived knowledge was positively associated with both coping and threat appraisals, coping appraisals positively associated with adaptive responses, maladaptive responses, and intentions to vaccinate, threat appraisals positively associated with adaptive and maladaptive responses, and adaptive responses positively associated with intentions to vaccinate. The invariance evaluation revealed no differences across parents or COVID-19-like symptoms experiences in parental intentions to get their children vaccinated. The findings suggest that cogent information regarding childhood COVID-19 vaccination may boost parents’ knowledge influencing their appraisals, adaptive responses and intentions to vaccinate their children. Specifically, coping appraisals and adaptive responses appeared to be important mediators between knowledge and intentions to vaccinate. Furthermore, intentions to vaccinate children may not be strongly influenced by parental roles or COVID-19-like symptoms experiences. These findings may help multiple stakeholders promote COVID-19 vaccination rates among children, and countries should further examine ways of increasing rates based on their specific needs.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Parental intention on getting children COVID-19 vaccinations: Invariance evaluation across parenting roles and COVID-19-like symptoms experiences among Iranians during the pandemic period

Ahorsu,

Potenza,

Lin

et al. 2024

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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“…Parental acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination for children was associated with several factors, such as place, time, culture, religion, and race. Previous studies in Iran and other countries have reported some associated factors such as vaccine literacy [ 15 , 16 ], attitudes regarding vaccines [ 16 ], trust in scientists [ 13 ], Parents’ hesitancy to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for themselves [ 11 ], wrong beliefs [ 17 ] concerns about vaccine efficacy and safety [ 18 ], demographic characteristics, and social-economic status (SES) of parents [ 16 , 19 , 20 ].…”

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Predictors of Pediatric COVID-19 vaccination: a case-control study in Tabriz, Iran

Sarbakhsh,

Jafari,

Salemi

et al. 2023

BMC Pediatr

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Introduction COVID-19 vaccination of children can help reduce the severity of the infection and the death rate caused by it and also helps achieve herd immunity. The level of acceptance and high vaccination coverage is the main elements in the success of immunization programs. Children’s vaccination is dependent on their parent’s decision. This study aims to identify predictors of the children’s COVID-19 vaccination accomplishment by their parents. Method In this case-control study, 577 vaccinated children as cases and 366 un-vaccinated children as controls were randomly selected from the general population of Tabriz, Iran 2022, and their data were collected by telephone calls and interviews with the children’s parents. Cases and controls were compared in terms of clinical and demographic factors of the child as well as the socioeconomic status (SES) of their parents by using a multivariable mixed-effect logistic regression model. Results According to the results of the multivariable logistic regression, the age of the child (OR = 1.26 95% CI (1.14, 1.40), p-value < 0.001), previous COVID-19 infection of the child (OR = 1.92, 95% CI (1.21, 3.04), p-value < 0.001), having no underlying disease in the child (OR = 1.76, 95% CI (1.02, 3.02), p-value = 0.04), the dwelling place of the household (the high-level dwelling in compared to a low level (OR = 3.34, 95% CI (1.6, 6.64), p-value = 0.001), the middle level of dwelling compared with low level (OR = 4.87, 95% CI (2.46, 9.51), p-value < 0.001)), and Father’s job (Employee and technician Fathers compared to worker fathers (OR = 2.99, 95% CI (1.55, 5.77), p-value = 0.001)) were significant independent predictors of children COVID-19 vaccination. Conclusion Several demographic and socioeconomic factors were associated with children’s vaccination. Older children, children without any underlying disease, children with a history of COVID-19 infection, and children of parents with higher levels of SES were more likely to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This finding can be considered in children’s vaccination policymaking.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Among 5 - 11-year-old Iranian Children’s Parents: What Are Underlying Beliefs?

Cited by 2 publications

References 13 publications

Parental intention on getting children COVID-19 vaccinations: Invariance evaluation across parenting roles and COVID-19-like symptoms experiences among Iranians during the pandemic period

Parental intention on getting children COVID-19 vaccinations: Invariance evaluation across parenting roles and COVID-19-like symptoms experiences among Iranians during the pandemic period

Predictors of Pediatric COVID-19 vaccination: a case-control study in Tabriz, Iran

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