ReviewActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2022
Providing children with COVID-19 vaccinations is challenging due to lack of data and wide-ranging parental acceptance.
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- Factors ınfluencing vaccine refusal in children: an umbrella review on COVID-19 and childhood vaccinations.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Do we need to vaccinate every child against COVID-19: What evidence suggests-A systematic review of opinions.Frontiers in public health · 2022Pooled it
- An econometric examination of vaccine hesitancy among residents and their dependents in urban Ghana.Health economics review · 2025Review
- COVID-19 vaccination: challenges in the pediatric population.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Parents' Concerns, Behavior, Perception, and Hesitancy Regarding COVID-19 Vaccinations for Children in Central Saudi Arabia.Vaccines · 2023Article
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- Malaysian Parents' Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children against COVID-19 Infection and Their Perception of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Views on COVID-19 vaccination of young children in Ireland, results from a cross-sectional survey of parents.Vaccine · 2022Article
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- Parental perceptions and the 5C psychological antecedents of COVID-19 vaccination during the first month of omicron variant surge: A large-scale cross-sectional survey in Saudi Arabia.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Physicians' Perspective on Vaccine-Hesitancy at the Beginning of Israel's COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign and Public's Perceptions of Physicians' Knowledge When Recommending the Vaccine to Their Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Parents' Hesitancy to Vaccinate Their 5-11-Year-Old Children Against COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia: Predictors From the Health Belief Model.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- It Takes Two to Tango: How the COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign in Israel Was Framed by the Health Ministry vs. the Television News.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Parents' and guardians' acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey.PloS one · 2022Article
- Providing children with COVID-19 vaccinations is challenging due to lack of data and wide-ranging parental acceptance.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2022Review
- The COVID-19 pandemic in children and young people during 2020-2021: A complex discussion on vaccination.Journal of global healthArticle
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aimVaccines are vital to ending the COVID-19 pandemic and we reviewed the data on vaccinating children, and including them in clinical trials, as most of the activity has focused on adults.
methodsEnglish and Chinese databases, including PubMed, Elsevier Scopus, Web of Science, CNKI and CQVIP were searched, along with websites such as the World Health Organization and the University of Oxford.
resultsWe identified 44 papers and 16 news items about vaccinating children against the virus, published from 10 February 2020 to 14 July 2021. Child vaccination has been slow and only a few countries have included children in Phase II or III clinical trials. The data on children were much more limited than on adults, but most children were asymptomatic or had mild symptoms and some deaths had been recorded. More clinical trials are needed to assess the safety and efficacy of vaccinating children, as higher vaccination levels can help to build up herd immunity. The percentage of parents willing to vaccinate their children against the virus ranged from 48.2% to 72.6%, with much lower rates for letting them participate in clinical trials.
conclusionVaccines should be offered to children as soon as their safety and efficacy are established.
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