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Parents’ Uptake and Willingness towards Recommended Vaccinations for Their Children with Underlying Chronic Medical Conditions in Italy

This cross-sectional survey was conducted to investigate the willingness and uptake of recommended vaccinations against influenza, meningococcal B and ACWY, pneumococcal, rotavirus and the influencing factors among 565 parents of children aged 6 months to 5 years with chronic medical conditions in I...

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Autores principales: Della Polla, Giorgia, Miraglia del Giudice, Grazia, Postiglione, Mario, Angelillo, Italo Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10536001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37766100
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11091423
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author Della Polla, Giorgia
Miraglia del Giudice, Grazia
Postiglione, Mario
Angelillo, Italo Francesco
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description This cross-sectional survey was conducted to investigate the willingness and uptake of recommended vaccinations against influenza, meningococcal B and ACWY, pneumococcal, rotavirus and the influencing factors among 565 parents of children aged 6 months to 5 years with chronic medical conditions in Italy. Only 34.9% of the sample received all vaccinations. Parents whose selected child was vaccinated against the five diseases were those who had received recommendations from physicians, who did not believe that children should get fewer vaccinations at the same time, those whose child was aged 2–3 and 4–5 years compared to 6 months–1 year, and those who acquired information from physicians. Only 17.9% were willing to vaccinate their child. Parents with a university degree, those who acquired information from physicians, and those whose child had a more recent diagnosis were more likely to be willing to vaccinate their child. Parents who believed that children should get fewer vaccines at the same time, those without a university degree, and those who did not acquire information from physicians were more likely to not have vaccinated their child because they were concerned about vaccines’ side effects. Public health policymakers should provide efforts to promote the uptake for an adequate protection of this high-risk group.
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spelling pubmed-105360012023-09-29 Parents’ Uptake and Willingness towards Recommended Vaccinations for Their Children with Underlying Chronic Medical Conditions in Italy Della Polla, Giorgia Miraglia del Giudice, Grazia Postiglione, Mario Angelillo, Italo Francesco Vaccines (Basel) Article This cross-sectional survey was conducted to investigate the willingness and uptake of recommended vaccinations against influenza, meningococcal B and ACWY, pneumococcal, rotavirus and the influencing factors among 565 parents of children aged 6 months to 5 years with chronic medical conditions in Italy. Only 34.9% of the sample received all vaccinations. Parents whose selected child was vaccinated against the five diseases were those who had received recommendations from physicians, who did not believe that children should get fewer vaccinations at the same time, those whose child was aged 2–3 and 4–5 years compared to 6 months–1 year, and those who acquired information from physicians. Only 17.9% were willing to vaccinate their child. Parents with a university degree, those who acquired information from physicians, and those whose child had a more recent diagnosis were more likely to be willing to vaccinate their child. Parents who believed that children should get fewer vaccines at the same time, those without a university degree, and those who did not acquire information from physicians were more likely to not have vaccinated their child because they were concerned about vaccines’ side effects. Public health policymakers should provide efforts to promote the uptake for an adequate protection of this high-risk group. MDPI 2023-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10536001/ /pubmed/37766100 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11091423 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Parents’ Uptake and Willingness towards Recommended Vaccinations for Their Children with Underlying Chronic Medical Conditions in Italy
title Parents’ Uptake and Willingness towards Recommended Vaccinations for Their Children with Underlying Chronic Medical Conditions in Italy
title_full Parents’ Uptake and Willingness towards Recommended Vaccinations for Their Children with Underlying Chronic Medical Conditions in Italy
title_fullStr Parents’ Uptake and Willingness towards Recommended Vaccinations for Their Children with Underlying Chronic Medical Conditions in Italy
title_full_unstemmed Parents’ Uptake and Willingness towards Recommended Vaccinations for Their Children with Underlying Chronic Medical Conditions in Italy
title_short Parents’ Uptake and Willingness towards Recommended Vaccinations for Their Children with Underlying Chronic Medical Conditions in Italy
title_sort parents’ uptake and willingness towards recommended vaccinations for their children with underlying chronic medical conditions in italy
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10536001/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37766100
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11091423
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