ArticleAmerican journal of health promotion : AJHP2024
Parents' Trust in COVID-19 Messengers and Implications for Vaccination.
Article in American journal of health promotion : AJHP, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Beyond seeking information: Lessons learned from a qualitative investigation of the information practices of parents about COVID-19 vaccination in Canada.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- COVID-19 and Influenza Vaccine Uptake Among Nurses and Children Living in Their Households: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Effectiveness of Group and Individual Counselling Interventions on COVID-19 Vaccination Intention Among Industrial Employees in Romania.Patient preference and adherence · 2025Article
- When clinicians and patients disagree on vaccination: what primary care clinicians can learn from COVID-19-vaccine-hesitant patients about communication, trust, and relationships in healthcare.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Parents' Perceptions of Schools' COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies: A Phenomenological Study.The Journal of school health · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeTo characterize factors associated with parents' trust in messengers of COVID-19 guidance and determine whether trust in their doctors is associated with COVID-19 vaccination.
designWeb-based and mailed survey (January-June 2022).
settingMaryland, USA. SUBJECTS: 567 parents/caregivers of public elementary and middle school students. MEASURES: Parents rated trust in 9 messengers on a 4-point scale ["not at all" (0) to "a great deal" (3)], dichotomized into low (0-1) vs high (2-3). They reported on health insurance, income, race, ethnicity, education, sex, urbanicity, political affiliation, and COVID-19 vaccination. ANALYSIS: ANOVA and t-tests were computed to compare overall trust by parent characteristics. Multivariable logistic regression was run to evaluate factors associated with high trust for each messenger. Multivariable logistic regression was used to evaluate the relationship between trust in doctors and odds of COVID-19 vaccination.
resultsMost trusted messengers were doctors (M = 2.65), family members (M = 1.87), and schools (M = 1.81). Parents' trust varied by racial identity, sex, urbanicity, health insurance, and political affiliation. Greater trust in their or their child's doctor was associated with greater odds of child (aOR: 2.97; 95% CI: 1.10, 7.98) and parent (aOR: 3.30; 95% CI: 1.23, 1.47) vaccination.
conclusionParent characteristics were associated with trust, and trust was linked to vaccination. Public health professionals should anticipate variability in trusted messengers to optimize uptake of public health guidance.
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