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Identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in Australian children
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: We aimed to understand the risk factors associated with incomplete vaccination, which may help to identify and prioritise opportunities to intervene. METHODS: Consenting parents of children <6 years old attending an outpatient clinic completed a questionnaire, which captured...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6668241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31384732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2019.100010 |
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author | Lim, Christopher Currie, Grace E. Waddington, Claire S. Wu, Yue Setijo, Sharon Leask, Julie Marsh, Julie A. Snelling, Thomas L. |
author_facet | Lim, Christopher Currie, Grace E. Waddington, Claire S. Wu, Yue Setijo, Sharon Leask, Julie Marsh, Julie A. Snelling, Thomas L. |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: We aimed to understand the risk factors associated with incomplete vaccination, which may help to identify and prioritise opportunities to intervene. METHODS: Consenting parents of children <6 years old attending an outpatient clinic completed a questionnaire, which captured demographic information and their level of agreement with belief statements about vaccination using a 7-point Likert scale. Vaccination status was determined from the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register and deemed either “complete” (no doses overdue) or “incomplete” (1 or more doses overdue) at the time of questionnaire completion. RESULTS: Of 589 children of respondents, 116 (20%) had an incomplete vaccination status. Of these, nearly two-thirds (63%) of parents believed that their child was, in fact, fully-vaccinated. Compared to those with a complete vaccine status, children with an incomplete vaccine status were more likely to be born overseas (p < 0.001), have a larger family size (p = 0.02) and to have parents with lower educational attainment (p = 0.001). Parents of children with an incomplete status reported more doubt about the importance of vaccination and greater concern about vaccine safety, compared to parents of children with a complete status. CONCLUSION: Most parents are supportive of vaccination. Sociodemographic factors may contribute more to the risk of incomplete vaccination than attitudes or beliefs. Some parents are unaware of their child’s vaccination status, suggesting that simple and modern reminders may assist parents to keep up to date. |
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spelling | pubmed-66682412019-08-05 Identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in Australian children Lim, Christopher Currie, Grace E. Waddington, Claire S. Wu, Yue Setijo, Sharon Leask, Julie Marsh, Julie A. Snelling, Thomas L. Vaccine X Regular paper BACKGROUND AND AIMS: We aimed to understand the risk factors associated with incomplete vaccination, which may help to identify and prioritise opportunities to intervene. METHODS: Consenting parents of children <6 years old attending an outpatient clinic completed a questionnaire, which captured demographic information and their level of agreement with belief statements about vaccination using a 7-point Likert scale. Vaccination status was determined from the Australian Childhood Immunisation Register and deemed either “complete” (no doses overdue) or “incomplete” (1 or more doses overdue) at the time of questionnaire completion. RESULTS: Of 589 children of respondents, 116 (20%) had an incomplete vaccination status. Of these, nearly two-thirds (63%) of parents believed that their child was, in fact, fully-vaccinated. Compared to those with a complete vaccine status, children with an incomplete vaccine status were more likely to be born overseas (p < 0.001), have a larger family size (p = 0.02) and to have parents with lower educational attainment (p = 0.001). Parents of children with an incomplete status reported more doubt about the importance of vaccination and greater concern about vaccine safety, compared to parents of children with a complete status. CONCLUSION: Most parents are supportive of vaccination. Sociodemographic factors may contribute more to the risk of incomplete vaccination than attitudes or beliefs. Some parents are unaware of their child’s vaccination status, suggesting that simple and modern reminders may assist parents to keep up to date. Elsevier 2019-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6668241/ /pubmed/31384732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2019.100010 Text en © 2019 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Regular paper Lim, Christopher Currie, Grace E. Waddington, Claire S. Wu, Yue Setijo, Sharon Leask, Julie Marsh, Julie A. Snelling, Thomas L. Identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in Australian children |
title | Identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in Australian children |
title_full | Identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in Australian children |
title_fullStr | Identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in Australian children |
title_full_unstemmed | Identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in Australian children |
title_short | Identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in Australian children |
title_sort | identification of the determinants of incomplete vaccination in australian children |
topic | Regular paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6668241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31384732 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2019.100010 |
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