Factors Associated With Refusal of Childhood Vaccines Among Parents of School-aged Children

Abstract

Continued efforts must be made to educate parents about the utility and safety of vaccines, especially parents requesting nonmedical exemptions to school immunization requirements.

Information scanning and vaccine safety concerns among African American, Mexican American, and non-Hispanic White women

“…This finding differs from other studies which found associations between Internet use and anti-vaccine sentiment [3,13,14]. This discrepancy may underscore the difference between deliberate information seeking online and the casual information scanning that was examined in this study.…”

Parental Vaccine Safety Concerns in 2009

“…In contrast to previous studies 1,15 that found varicella to be the vaccine most likely to be refused by parents, our results demonstrated HPV in that position with varicella and meningococcal conjugate refused at roughly similar rates. The previous studies did not include HPV and meningococcal conjugate vaccines because they were not licensed and recommended at the time that the studies were conducted.…”

Risks, trust and knowledge: determinants of pregnant women's decisions regarding participation in a future Q fever screening and treatment program during a large epidemic in The Netherlands

“…Pregnant women's trust in the communication and competence of health professionals and authorities did not affect the intention to participate in the program. This finding is in contrast with previous studies on trust and parental protective behaviour, for example in studies on MMR immunization (Salmon et al , 2005; Casiday et al , 2006; Marlow et al , 2007; Smith et al , 2007). In the present study, the pregnant women overall expressed a considerable level of trust about the topic in health professionals and authorities.…”