Parental hesitancy towards vaccinating their children with a booster dose against COVID-19: Real-world evidence from Taizhou, China

Huang, Li-Li; Yang, Yupei; Mao, Huiping; Hu, Wei-Wei; Jiang, Yan-Hong; Jiesisibieke, Zhu Liduzi; Tung, Tao‐Hsin

doi:10.1016/j.jiph.2022.08.002

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“…Gender predicted CBVH in 10 studies (23.8%). Several studies indicated that females are more likely to be hesitant to receive a COVID-19 booster vaccine than males [ 5 , 8 , 26 , 35 , 37 , 39 ]. On the contrary, Bendezu-Quispe et al [ 12 ] found that females are associated with lower booster hesitancy.…”

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Why Some People Are Hesitant to Receive COVID-19 Boosters: A Systematic Review

Limbu

Huhmann

2023

TropicalMed

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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and transitions to an endemic stage, booster vaccines will play an important role in personal and public health. However, convincing people to take boosters continues to be a key obstacle. This study systematically analyzed research that examined the predictors of COVID-19 booster vaccine hesitancy. A search of PubMed, Medline, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Scopus uncovered 42 eligible studies. Globally, the average COVID-19 booster vaccination hesitancy rate was 30.72%. Thirteen key factors influencing booster hesitancy emerged from the literature: demographics (gender, age, education, income, occupation, employment status, ethnicity, and marital status), geographical influences (country, region, and residency), adverse events, perceived benefit/efficacy, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, prior history of COVID-19 infection, vaccination status, vaccination recommendations, health status, knowledge and information, skepticism/distrust/conspiracy theories, and vaccine type. Vaccine communication campaigns and interventions for COVID boosters should focus on factors influencing booster confidence, complacency, and convenience.

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“…Seven studies (16.67%) reported that COVID-19 booster hesitancy was higher among individuals who believed that boosters were unnecessary [ 21 , 26 , 35 , 43 , 44 , 49 ] or who were skeptical of the need for booster doses [ 42 ]. Distrust in the government, CDC, and health care system [ 31 ] also increased hesitancy.…”

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Why Some People Are Hesitant to Receive COVID-19 Boosters: A Systematic Review

Limbu

Huhmann

2023

TropicalMed

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“…Another study in Taizhou, China, showed that 41.8% of parents were undecided on whether to give their children COVID-19 vaccine boosters or not [ 67 ]. This means that better health advising, awareness, and education are required.…”

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COVID-19 Vaccination in Pediatrics: Was It Valuable and Successful?

Raslan

Shehata

et al. 2023

Vaccines

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Background: The mass vaccination of children against coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) has been frequently debated. The risk–benefit assessment of COVID-19 vaccination versus infection in children has also been debated. Aim: This systematic review looked for answers to the question “was the vaccination of our children valuable and successful?”. Methods: The search strategy of different articles in the literature was based on medical subject headings. Screening and selection were based on inclusion/exclusion criteria. Results and Discussion: The search results revealed that the majority of the reported adverse events after COVID-19 vaccination in pediatrics were mild to moderate, with few being severe. Injection site discomfort, fever, headache, cough, lethargy, and muscular aches and pains were the most prevalent side effects. Few clinical studies recorded significant side effects, although the majority of these adverse events had nothing to do with vaccination. In terms of efficacy, COVID-19 disease protection was achieved in 90–95% of cases for mRNA vaccines, in 50–80% of cases for inactivated vaccines, and in 58–92% of cases for adenoviral-based vaccines in children and adolescents. Conclusions: Based on available data, COVID-19 immunizations appear to be safe for children and adolescents. Furthermore, multiple studies have proven that different types of vaccines can provide excellent protection against COVID-19 in pediatric populations. The efficacy of vaccines against new SARS-CoV-2 variants and the reduction in vaccine-related long-term adverse events are crucial for risk–benefit and cost-effectiveness assessments; therefore, additional safety studies are required to confirm the long-term safety and effectiveness of vaccinations in children.

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“…Second, although most of the activities were always evidence-based and oriented towards infection prevention and management in a pandemic setting [ 45 ], other activities and groups, such as the promotion of physical activity [ 46 ], college students [ 47 ], and the ‘emotional well-being’ intervention [ 48 ], could have been taken more into account. On the contrary, it was decided not to focus solely on encouraging vaccination, as was done in many countries [ 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 ], since in Spain, the public response to the vaccine was very favorable, probably due to high confidence in the vaccination and in the health system [ 57 ].…”

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Understanding COVID: Collaborative Government Campaign for Citizen Digital Health Literacy in the COVID-19 Pandemic

López-Ventoso¹,

González²,

Fernández-García³

et al. 2023

Life

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The strategy “Understanding COVID” was a Public Health campaign designed in 2020 and launched in 2021 in Asturias-Spain to provide reliable and comprehensive information oriented to vulnerable populations. The campaign involved groups considered socially vulnerable and/or highly exposed to COVID-19 infection: shopkeepers and hoteliers, worship and religious event participants, school children and their families, and scattered rural populations exposed to the digital divide. The purpose of this article was to describe the design of the “Understanding COVID” strategy and the evaluation of the implementation process. The strategy included the design and use of several educational resources and communication strategies, including some hundred online training sessions based on the published studies and adapted to the language and dissemination approaches, that reached 1056 people of different ages and target groups, an accessible website, an informative video channel, posters and other pedagogical actions in education centers. It required a great coordination effort involving different public and third-sector entities to provide the intended pandemic protection and prevention information at that difficult time. A communication strategy was implemented to achieve different goals: reaching a diverse population and adapting the published studies to different ages and groups, focusing on making it comprehensible and accessible for them. In conclusion, given there is a common and sufficiently important goal, it is possible to achieve effective collaboration between different governmental bodies to develop a coordinated strategy to reach the most vulnerable populations while taking into consideration their different interests and needs.

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Parental hesitancy towards vaccinating their children with a booster dose against COVID-19: Real-world evidence from Taizhou, China

Cited by 9 publications

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Why Some People Are Hesitant to Receive COVID-19 Boosters: A Systematic Review

Why Some People Are Hesitant to Receive COVID-19 Boosters: A Systematic Review

COVID-19 Vaccination in Pediatrics: Was It Valuable and Successful?

Understanding COVID: Collaborative Government Campaign for Citizen Digital Health Literacy in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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