ArticleJournal of community health2020
Vaccine-Hesitant and Vaccine-Refusing Parents' Reflections on the Way Parenthood Changed Their Attitudes to Vaccination.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling.Nature human behaviour · 2023Pooled 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
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- The influence of audience's regulatory focus on the persuasive effect of different pro-vaccine messages.PloS one · 2025Article
- Hesitation towards the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States: a digital ethnographic study.Salud colectiva · 2024Article
- Knowledge, Beliefs, and Behaviors of Turkish Parents about Childhood Vaccination.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Vaccination Among Parents in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2023Article
- Evaluating COVID-19 vaccination intentions and vaccine hesitancy among parents of children with autism spectrum disorder.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Hepatitis B eradication: vaccine as a key player.American journal of translational research · 2023Review
- Investigating the Potential Connection Between Cyberchondria and Vaccine Hesitancy in High School Students.Cureus · 2023Article
- Psychological mechanisms and interventions directed at vaccination attitudes.Frontiers in sociology · 2023Review
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- Understanding parents' views toward the newly enacted HPV vaccine school entry policy in Puerto Rico: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2021Article
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- Vaccine Hesitancy and Illness Perceptions: Comparing Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to other Parent Groups.Children's health care : journal of the Association for the Care of Children's Health · 2020Article
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Abstract
Having children compels parents to examine their vaccine beliefs, particularly if they are vaccine-hesitant or refuse all vaccines. Presently, little is known about the specific ways in which having children influences the vaccine beliefs of parents. This research examined how having children changed the attitudes of Australian vaccine-hesitant and vaccine-refusing parents towards childhood vaccination. We asked 904 Australian parents who believed that having children changed their attitudes to vaccination to describe these changes. Parents' responses were inductively, iteratively coded and thematically analysed. Themes were compared between parents who believed all vaccines should be refused, parents with varying degrees of vaccine hesitancy, and parents who were fully vaccine-accepting. Low numbers of responses from fully vaccine-accepting parents meant that this paper focused on mostly vaccine-hesitant and vaccine-refusing vaccine parents. Five themes were identified. Having children prompted all parents to learn about vaccine choices. Hesitant and refusing parents' interpreted vaccine choices through a lens of distrust of pharmaceutical companies and regulatory bodies overseeing vaccine safety. The distrust fuelled parents' fears about vaccination risks, such as side effects. Parents became concerned about the scheduled timing of vaccinations, particularly of the Hepatitis B vaccine. Parents among the three groups that believed some or all vaccines should be refused reported that a vaccine permanently injured their child. This research contributes to understanding how having children affects the vaccine attitudes among vaccine-hesitant and vaccine-refusing parents. Greater support for parents with negative vaccination experiences may prevent hesitant attitudes. The vaccination schedule needs to be communicated to parents better.
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