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ReviewVaccines2020

Addressing Parental Vaccine Hesitancy towards Childhood Vaccines in the United States: A Systematic Literature Review of Communication Interventions and Strategies.

Olivia Olson, Corinne Berry, Nirbhay Kumar

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Review in Vaccines, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 109 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

109 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  8. Interventions for COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  16. A Cross-Sectional Study Examining Vaccine Uptake and Attitudes Among Parents Compared to Other Adults.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2026
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  18. Social Perception, Trust, and Reluctance Towards Vaccines: A Bibliometric Analysis (2019-2025).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Olivia OlsonDepartment of Global Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.
Corinne BerryCommunicateHealth, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2261-3644
Nirbhay KumarDepartment of Global Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0358-4924

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parental vaccine hesitancy is becoming an increasingly important public health concern in the United States. In March 2020, an assessment of the latest CDC National Immunization Survey data found that more than one-third of U.S. children between the ages of 19 and 35 months were not following the recommended early childhood immunization schedule. Furthermore, a 2019 national survey found that approximately 1 in 4 parents reported serious concerns towards vaccinating their children. Vaccine hesitancy is now associated with a decrease in vaccine coverage and an increase in vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks and epidemics in the United States. Many studies have focused on understanding and defining the new socio-medical term, vaccine hesitancy; few have attempted to summarize past and current health communication interventions and strategies that have been successful or unsuccessful in tackling this growing phenomenon. This systematic literature review will attempt to aid public health professionals with a catalogue of health communication interventions and strategies to ultimately address and prevent parental vaccine hesitancy in the long term. Out of 1239 search results, a total of 75 articles were included for analysis, ranging from systematic reviews, quantitative surveys, and experimental designs to ethnographic and qualitative studies. For the presentation of results, a taxonomy was used to organize communication interventions according to their intended purpose. The catalogue of interventions was further broken down into specific components and themes that were identified in the literature as essential to either the success or failure in preventing and addressing parental vaccine hesitancy towards childhood vaccines.

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campaignschildhood vaccineshealth communicationinterventionsmessagingstrategiesvaccine hesitancyvaccine literacy

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PMID33049956
PMCPMC7712553

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