ArticleJournal of epidemiology and community health2000
Low immunisation uptake: is the process the problem?
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- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Physical Interventions Administered Orally for Infants for Reducing Distress During Vaccine Injections.The Clinical journal of pain · 2026Pooled it
- Factors that influence parents' and informal caregivers' views and practices regarding routine childhood vaccination: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Parents' and informal caregivers' views and experiences of communication about routine childhood vaccination: a synthesis of qualitative evidence.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
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- Moments that matter: childhood pain treatment shapes pain for life-we can do better every time in every child.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Parental/guardians' satisfaction with vaccination service and its associated factors: a cross-sectional study from Eastern China.BMC public health · 2024Article
- UK parents' attitudes towards meningococcal group B (MenB) vaccination: a qualitative analysis.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Maternal satisfaction about childhood immunization in primary health care center, Egypt.The Pan African medical journal · 2014Article
- Mothers' beliefs about analgesia during childhood immunization.Paediatrics & child health · 2010Article
- Can I risk using public services? Perceived consequences of seeking help and health care among households living in poverty: qualitative study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2007Article
- Factors influencing African-American mothers' concerns about immunization safety: a summary of focus group findings.Journal of the National Medical Association · 2005Article
- Concerns about immunisation. Breast feeding should be promoted.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2000Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine mothers' satisfaction with the process of immunisation and its possible contribution to suboptimal immunisation uptake.
designIn depth interviews with mothers.
settingTwo Community Care Areas, Dublin city, Ireland.
participantsIn depth interviews of 23 mothers of children 1-2 years old, recruited purposively from a birth cohort born in 1994. MAIN
resultsMothers preferred general practice to Health Centre immunisation (11:5) for predominantly emotional compared with practical reasons (4:1). Health Centre immunisation was seen, at times, as unacceptably rough and inhuman. Many mothers experienced severe emotional distress at the prospect of inflicting the pain of immunisation on their babies. The non-empathic stance of some immunising doctors was unacceptable to mothers. They valued attempts by health professionals to acknowledge the pain of immunisation and to engage with their baby. Adverse experiences contributed to deferral of future visits and to defaulting behaviour.
conclusionsLow empathy mass immunisation in clinic type settings may be unacceptable to mothers in the 1990s, and may in part explain suboptimal uptake in health care systems that use such clinics.
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