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Parents' attitudes and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations in Sicily, Italy
BACKGROUND: Since a long time, Italy has maintained a dual system to administer childhood immunisations, that is a certain number of mandatory vaccinations and a number of recommended vaccinations. The study aimed to explore the issues surrounding parental acceptance or non-acceptance of the recomme...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3107180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21569424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-305 |
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author | Coniglio, Maria Anna Platania, Marco Privitera, Donatella Giammanco, Giuseppe Pignato, Sarina |
author_facet | Coniglio, Maria Anna Platania, Marco Privitera, Donatella Giammanco, Giuseppe Pignato, Sarina |
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description | BACKGROUND: Since a long time, Italy has maintained a dual system to administer childhood immunisations, that is a certain number of mandatory vaccinations and a number of recommended vaccinations. The study aimed to explore the issues surrounding parental acceptance or non-acceptance of the recommended vaccinations for children. METHODS: Parents of children aged 3-5 years of day-care centres in Sicily were asked to fill out an anonymous questionnaire. Determinants of the attitude towards recommended vaccinations and social influence on the decision-making process were assessed using logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Of the 1,500 selected parents, 81.0% participated in the study. Prior to the survey, the majority of children (97.6%) received recommended vaccines. Most parents (74.4%) received information about vaccinations from Family Paediatricians, showed a good knowledge about the side effects of the vaccines (73.1%), did not worry about their potential dangerousness (53.0%) and would have accepted their children to be vaccinated even if it was not required for day care (84.1%). The majority (79.9%) were not disposed to follow the advises of the anti-vaccination movements. Parents' background characteristics, sources of information and social influence were not significantly associated with parental acceptance of recommended vaccines for childhood. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that health information by Family Paediatricians is significantly associated with parental acceptance of recommended vaccinations. |
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spelling | pubmed-31071802011-06-03 Parents' attitudes and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations in Sicily, Italy Coniglio, Maria Anna Platania, Marco Privitera, Donatella Giammanco, Giuseppe Pignato, Sarina BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Since a long time, Italy has maintained a dual system to administer childhood immunisations, that is a certain number of mandatory vaccinations and a number of recommended vaccinations. The study aimed to explore the issues surrounding parental acceptance or non-acceptance of the recommended vaccinations for children. METHODS: Parents of children aged 3-5 years of day-care centres in Sicily were asked to fill out an anonymous questionnaire. Determinants of the attitude towards recommended vaccinations and social influence on the decision-making process were assessed using logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: Of the 1,500 selected parents, 81.0% participated in the study. Prior to the survey, the majority of children (97.6%) received recommended vaccines. Most parents (74.4%) received information about vaccinations from Family Paediatricians, showed a good knowledge about the side effects of the vaccines (73.1%), did not worry about their potential dangerousness (53.0%) and would have accepted their children to be vaccinated even if it was not required for day care (84.1%). The majority (79.9%) were not disposed to follow the advises of the anti-vaccination movements. Parents' background characteristics, sources of information and social influence were not significantly associated with parental acceptance of recommended vaccines for childhood. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that health information by Family Paediatricians is significantly associated with parental acceptance of recommended vaccinations. BioMed Central 2011-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3107180/ /pubmed/21569424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-305 Text en Copyright ©2011 Coniglio et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Coniglio, Maria Anna Platania, Marco Privitera, Donatella Giammanco, Giuseppe Pignato, Sarina Parents' attitudes and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations in Sicily, Italy |
title | Parents' attitudes and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations in Sicily, Italy |
title_full | Parents' attitudes and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations in Sicily, Italy |
title_fullStr | Parents' attitudes and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations in Sicily, Italy |
title_full_unstemmed | Parents' attitudes and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations in Sicily, Italy |
title_short | Parents' attitudes and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations in Sicily, Italy |
title_sort | parents' attitudes and behaviours towards recommended vaccinations in sicily, italy |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3107180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21569424 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-305 |
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