ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2024
Use of narratives to enhance childhood vaccine acceptance: Results of an online experiment among Canadian parents.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Video-based interventions to promote HPV vaccination among individuals aged 9 to 26: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Tailoring educational interventions targeting parental vaccine hesitancy: a systematic review of quantitative studies.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- How the unvaccinated have been portrayed in the urban English-language Canadian popular press since the declared end of the COVID-19 pandemic emergency.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- From Stories to Action: How Framing, Perspective, and Identifiability in Personal Narratives Influence Vaccination Decisions.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2026Article
- Interactive, Narrative-Based Digital Health Interventions for Vaccine Communication: Scoping Review.Vaccines · 2025Review
- From hesitancy to confidence: Shaping the future of vaccine messaging.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2025Article
- Narratives as Mirrors and Doors: A Multiple-Method Pilot Evaluation of an Online, Family-Level Intervention for Families With Transgender and/or Nonbinary Youth.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2025Article
- Impact of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Basal Metabolic Rate on PTSD, Depression, and Emotional Instability.Brain sciences · 2024Article
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Abstract
Identifying effective interventions to promote children's vaccination acceptance is crucial for the health and wellbeing of communities. Many interventions can be implemented to increase parental awareness of the benefits of vaccination and positively influence their confidence in vaccines and vaccination services. One potential approach is using narratives as an intervention. This study aims to evaluate the effects of a narrative-based intervention on parents' attitudes and vaccination intentions. In a pre-post experiment, 2,000 parents of young children recruited from an online pan-Canadian panel were randomly exposed to one of the three videos presenting narratives to promote childhood vaccination or a control condition video about the importance and benefits of physical activity in children. Pre-post measures reveal a relatively modest but positive impact of the narratives on parents' attitudes and intention to vaccinate their child(ren). The results also suggest that narratives with more emotional content may be more effective in positively influencing vaccine attitudes than the more factual narrative. Using narratives to promote vaccination can positively influence parents' views and intentions toward childhood vaccines, but research is still required to identify the best components of such interventions.
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