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ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2021

Attitudes and beliefs of parents about routine childhood vaccination in Greece.

Despoina Gkentzi, Charalampia Tsagri, Eirini Kostopoulou, Sotirios Fouzas, Apostolos Vantarakis, Gabriel Dimitriou, Anastasia Varvarigou

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Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Despoina GkentziDepartment of Paediatrics, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Charalampia TsagriDepartment of Paediatrics, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Eirini KostopoulouDepartment of Paediatrics, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Sotirios FouzasDepartment of Paediatrics, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Apostolos VantarakisDepartment of Public Health, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Gabriel DimitriouDepartment of Paediatrics, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Anastasia VarvarigouDepartment of Paediatrics, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
University of Patras · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccine hesitancy remains one of the 10 major global threats as per the WHO report in 2019. The aim of the present study is to assess attitudes and perceptions of vaccine hesitant parents in Greece with a view to implementing strategies to increase vaccine uptake. A cross-sectional questionnaire-based prospective survey was conducted between September 2019 and June 2020 on parents of children attending primary education in the city of Patras in Western Greece. Data on parental attitudes and beliefs about vaccinations were collected and analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression was used to investigate factors associated with vaccine uptake. Out of 2154 distributed questionnaires, 1227 were completed and returned (response rate 56.9%). The main vaccine information source for Greek parents was their primary care pediatrician (90.8%). Doubts still exist amongst approximately one-third of them (33.5%) regarding a possible relationship between vaccines and autism. Of note, 44% of the study participants believe that unvaccinated children could attend school. 84.6% of the parents in our cohort admitted that they had fully vaccinated their children. In the multivariable analysis, marital status (

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeParentsChildCross-Sectional StudiesGreeceHumansPatient Acceptance of Health CareProspective StudiesSurveys and QuestionnairesVaccinationGreeceparentsschool-aged childrenVaccine hesitancyvaccine uptake

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PMCPMC8381791
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