Perceptions and attitudes among adults about childhood vaccination

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Κλινική Παιδιατρική & Νοσηλευτική - Έρευνα
Library of the School of Health Sciences
Deposit date:
2020-09-22
Year:
2020
Author:
Massa Maria
Supervisors info:
Κουτελέκος Ιωάννης, Επίκουρος Καθηγητής, Νοσηλευτική, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Μπακούλα-Τζουμάκα Χρύσα, Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Ευαγγέλου Ελένη, Καθηγήτρια, Νοσηλευτική, Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Original Title:
Αντιλήψεις και στάσεις για τους εμβολιασμούς παιδικής ηλικίας μεταξύ των ενηλίκων
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Perceptions and attitudes among adults about childhood vaccination
Summary:
Introduction: Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of parents seeking to exclude their children from vaccination. The purpose of this work was to explore the parental attitudes and perceptions regarding the necessity of childhood vaccination and the factors that influenced these attitudes and perceptions.

Material and Methods: A synchronous survey was conducted allowing the immediate gathering of information through self-filled questionnaires. The questionnaire that was created was distributed to affiliated persons who visited the Health Centre of Agia Sofia in Piraeus from 11 February 2019 up to 31 May 2019. Five hundred (500) affiliated parents were the sample of the present study. The statistical package IBM® SPSS® Statistics Version 21 for Social Sciences (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA) was used for the analysis. Component analysis was performed and multiple linear regression has been applied. In accordance with ethical and moral rules, the appropriate authorization has been obtained by the competent body. When not otherwise specified, the p< 0,05 value was considered as a statistical significance threshold.
Results: Initially, the distributed questionnaires were 518. However, 515 were the people who met the criteria for participation in the survey and eventually a total of 500 questionnaires were filled and returned to the researcher. The component analysis revealed that: The 1st component, called “Information on compulsory vaccination of children”, and the 2nd component, called “Restriction of infections through vaccination of children”, were associated with independent factors in order to interpret parents' views on the necessity of vaccination of children. The component “Information on compulsory vaccination of children” appears to have been interpreted by the independent factors with negative sign (a) “concern for inflicting pain” with p=0,010 and (b) “vaccine refusal” with p<0,001 and the positive independent factor “non-dose omission” with p=0.014. Those factors that interpreted the “Necessity of vaccines to reduce childhood infections” component were the positive ones: (a) “educational level” with p=0,026, (b) “positive parent coverage for tuberculosis” with p=0,009 and (c) “record keeping at the health booklet” with p=0,013 and those with negative sign (a) “refusal of vaccines” with p=0,007 and (b) “information from the internet” with p=0,046. The factors which overall interpreted parents' views on the necessity of vaccination of children and had a positive sign were: (a) “parental educational attainment” with p=0,015, (b) the positive assessment of their own vaccination coverage for rubella” with p=0,049 and for tuberculosis with p=0,014 and (c) “recording the vaccines at the child health booklet” with p=0,014 and one with a negative sign: “refusal of vaccines” with p=0,001.
Conclusion: The conducted survey demonstrated that parents have a positive attitude towards vaccinations, they trust the institutional bodies such as pediatricians, and prefer to be informed by them on immunization issues as they consider this information more authoritative and reliable than the Internet. They also consider that the benefits of vaccinations are greater than any of their side effects. However, it was found out that there is a need to devote more time to information by health providers about vaccinations. Moreover, our survey has shown that parental self-vaccination seems to have a positive correlation with the vaccination of their children.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Vaccines, Vaccination, Childhood vaccination, Parental attitudes, Perceptions, Behaviors
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
No
Number of references:
164
Number of pages:
92
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