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Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in the UAE: Children COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on the Choice of Distance versus Face-to-Face Learning Modalities: An In-Depth Analysis of a National Study
This study addresses the crucial aspect of childhood COVID-19 vaccination and its impact on parental decisions concerning learning modalities during the pandemic. This study aimed to gauge parental hesitancy towards vaccinating their children and its influence on choosing between distance and face-t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37897000 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11101598 |
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author | Kharaba, Zelal Alfoteih, Yassen Alzoubi, Karem H. Al-Azzam, Sayer Al-Azayzih, Ahmad Al-Obaidi, Hala J. Awad, Ahmed Bahaaeldin Dallal Bashi, Yahya H. Ahmed, Rahaf Khalil, Alaa M. Al Ahmad, Raneem Aldeyab, Mamoon A. Jirjees, Feras |
author_facet | Kharaba, Zelal Alfoteih, Yassen Alzoubi, Karem H. Al-Azzam, Sayer Al-Azayzih, Ahmad Al-Obaidi, Hala J. Awad, Ahmed Bahaaeldin Dallal Bashi, Yahya H. Ahmed, Rahaf Khalil, Alaa M. Al Ahmad, Raneem Aldeyab, Mamoon A. Jirjees, Feras |
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description | This study addresses the crucial aspect of childhood COVID-19 vaccination and its impact on parental decisions concerning learning modalities during the pandemic. This study aimed to gauge parental hesitancy towards vaccinating their children and its influence on choosing between distance and face-to-face learning options. Following STROBE guidelines for cross-sectional studies, this study surveyed 1973 parents in the United Arab Emirates using Google Forms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results revealed that while more than half of the parents (51.6%) were willing to vaccinate their children if the COVID-19 vaccine was accessible and affordable, a significant majority (91.2%) expressed concerns about the rapid vaccine development process, which was the primary reason for vaccine rejection. Interestingly, a sizable portion (55.3%) had experienced online learning in the previous academic term, and, of those, 59.6% believed it negatively influenced their children’s academic performance. Consequently, 66.4% expressed intent to shift their children back to face-to-face learning once feasible. Significantly, parents with medical backgrounds were more inclined (91.6%) to opt for face-to-face schooling compared to those without such backgrounds. Logistic regression analysis indicated associations between sociodemographic characteristics, educational level and background, and the decision to return children to face-to-face learning. Interestingly, when it comes to vaccine hesitancy, a noteworthy connection exists between the parents’ reluctance to vaccinate their children and their preference for distance learning. In fact, parents who responded negatively to vaccinating their children against COVID-19, if the vaccine was available, showed a clear preference for the distance learning modality (p-value < 0.0001). This study underscores the complex interplay of factors and community perspectives shaping parental acceptance of childhood COVID-19 vaccination. The development pace of vaccines significantly influences parents’ attitudes and beliefs about vaccination programs. Parents’ medical backgrounds exhibit a clear correlation with their perceptions of sending children back to school safely. This highlights the potential impact of parental medical knowledge on decision making, emphasizing the need to consider parents’ professional backgrounds when devising education- and vaccination-related policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-106110972023-10-28 Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in the UAE: Children COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on the Choice of Distance versus Face-to-Face Learning Modalities: An In-Depth Analysis of a National Study Kharaba, Zelal Alfoteih, Yassen Alzoubi, Karem H. Al-Azzam, Sayer Al-Azayzih, Ahmad Al-Obaidi, Hala J. Awad, Ahmed Bahaaeldin Dallal Bashi, Yahya H. Ahmed, Rahaf Khalil, Alaa M. Al Ahmad, Raneem Aldeyab, Mamoon A. Jirjees, Feras Vaccines (Basel) Article This study addresses the crucial aspect of childhood COVID-19 vaccination and its impact on parental decisions concerning learning modalities during the pandemic. This study aimed to gauge parental hesitancy towards vaccinating their children and its influence on choosing between distance and face-to-face learning options. Following STROBE guidelines for cross-sectional studies, this study surveyed 1973 parents in the United Arab Emirates using Google Forms during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results revealed that while more than half of the parents (51.6%) were willing to vaccinate their children if the COVID-19 vaccine was accessible and affordable, a significant majority (91.2%) expressed concerns about the rapid vaccine development process, which was the primary reason for vaccine rejection. Interestingly, a sizable portion (55.3%) had experienced online learning in the previous academic term, and, of those, 59.6% believed it negatively influenced their children’s academic performance. Consequently, 66.4% expressed intent to shift their children back to face-to-face learning once feasible. Significantly, parents with medical backgrounds were more inclined (91.6%) to opt for face-to-face schooling compared to those without such backgrounds. Logistic regression analysis indicated associations between sociodemographic characteristics, educational level and background, and the decision to return children to face-to-face learning. Interestingly, when it comes to vaccine hesitancy, a noteworthy connection exists between the parents’ reluctance to vaccinate their children and their preference for distance learning. In fact, parents who responded negatively to vaccinating their children against COVID-19, if the vaccine was available, showed a clear preference for the distance learning modality (p-value < 0.0001). This study underscores the complex interplay of factors and community perspectives shaping parental acceptance of childhood COVID-19 vaccination. The development pace of vaccines significantly influences parents’ attitudes and beliefs about vaccination programs. Parents’ medical backgrounds exhibit a clear correlation with their perceptions of sending children back to school safely. This highlights the potential impact of parental medical knowledge on decision making, emphasizing the need to consider parents’ professional backgrounds when devising education- and vaccination-related policies. MDPI 2023-10-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10611097/ /pubmed/37897000 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11101598 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kharaba, Zelal Alfoteih, Yassen Alzoubi, Karem H. Al-Azzam, Sayer Al-Azayzih, Ahmad Al-Obaidi, Hala J. Awad, Ahmed Bahaaeldin Dallal Bashi, Yahya H. Ahmed, Rahaf Khalil, Alaa M. Al Ahmad, Raneem Aldeyab, Mamoon A. Jirjees, Feras Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in the UAE: Children COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on the Choice of Distance versus Face-to-Face Learning Modalities: An In-Depth Analysis of a National Study |
title | Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in the UAE: Children COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on the Choice of Distance versus Face-to-Face Learning Modalities: An In-Depth Analysis of a National Study |
title_full | Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in the UAE: Children COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on the Choice of Distance versus Face-to-Face Learning Modalities: An In-Depth Analysis of a National Study |
title_fullStr | Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in the UAE: Children COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on the Choice of Distance versus Face-to-Face Learning Modalities: An In-Depth Analysis of a National Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in the UAE: Children COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on the Choice of Distance versus Face-to-Face Learning Modalities: An In-Depth Analysis of a National Study |
title_short | Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in the UAE: Children COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Its Impact on the Choice of Distance versus Face-to-Face Learning Modalities: An In-Depth Analysis of a National Study |
title_sort | lessons learned from the pandemic in the uae: children covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and its impact on the choice of distance versus face-to-face learning modalities: an in-depth analysis of a national study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10611097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37897000 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11101598 |
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