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Vaccine hesitancy among mothers of under-five children in Coastal South India: a facility-based cross-sectional study

Background: Vaccine hesitancy (VH) has been identified by the World Health Organization as one among the top ten threats to global public health. There is limited literature regarding VH from developing countries like India. Methods: In this facility based cross-sectional study, 172 mothers of under...

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Autores principales: Thapar, Rekha, Kumar, Nithin, Surendran, Priya, Shahdiya, Aleemath, Mahendran, Vibha, Ramesh, Ranjitha, Shetty, Deepali J., Unnikrishnan, Bhaskaran, Mithra, Prasanna, Holla, Ramesh, Bhagwan, Darshan, Kumar, Avinash
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Publicado: F1000 Research Limited 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631015
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.28293.3
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author Thapar, Rekha
Kumar, Nithin
Surendran, Priya
Shahdiya, Aleemath
Mahendran, Vibha
Ramesh, Ranjitha
Shetty, Deepali J.
Unnikrishnan, Bhaskaran
Mithra, Prasanna
Holla, Ramesh
Bhagwan, Darshan
Kumar, Avinash
author_facet Thapar, Rekha
Kumar, Nithin
Surendran, Priya
Shahdiya, Aleemath
Mahendran, Vibha
Ramesh, Ranjitha
Shetty, Deepali J.
Unnikrishnan, Bhaskaran
Mithra, Prasanna
Holla, Ramesh
Bhagwan, Darshan
Kumar, Avinash
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description Background: Vaccine hesitancy (VH) has been identified by the World Health Organization as one among the top ten threats to global public health. There is limited literature regarding VH from developing countries like India. Methods: In this facility based cross-sectional study, 172 mothers of under-five children were assessed regarding VH using the parental attitude towards childhood vaccination questionnaire (PACV). Results: The prevalence of VH was 3.4% (n=6). Only 7.6% (n=13) of the study participants had ever refused vaccination for their child and the most common reason cited for their refusal was that they thought it was not safe (n=6). Government health facilities was the place of routine immunization for 60.5% (n=104) participants. Health care providers (n =79, 46%) were the major source of information regarding vaccines. Conclusions: Our study highlights the presence of very low prevalence of VH in Mangalore compared to similar studies from India and other parts of the world. The limited number of participants had refused vaccination due to concerns related to vaccine safety.
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spelling pubmed-84773502021-10-07 Vaccine hesitancy among mothers of under-five children in Coastal South India: a facility-based cross-sectional study Thapar, Rekha Kumar, Nithin Surendran, Priya Shahdiya, Aleemath Mahendran, Vibha Ramesh, Ranjitha Shetty, Deepali J. Unnikrishnan, Bhaskaran Mithra, Prasanna Holla, Ramesh Bhagwan, Darshan Kumar, Avinash F1000Res Research Article Background: Vaccine hesitancy (VH) has been identified by the World Health Organization as one among the top ten threats to global public health. There is limited literature regarding VH from developing countries like India. Methods: In this facility based cross-sectional study, 172 mothers of under-five children were assessed regarding VH using the parental attitude towards childhood vaccination questionnaire (PACV). Results: The prevalence of VH was 3.4% (n=6). Only 7.6% (n=13) of the study participants had ever refused vaccination for their child and the most common reason cited for their refusal was that they thought it was not safe (n=6). Government health facilities was the place of routine immunization for 60.5% (n=104) participants. Health care providers (n =79, 46%) were the major source of information regarding vaccines. Conclusions: Our study highlights the presence of very low prevalence of VH in Mangalore compared to similar studies from India and other parts of the world. The limited number of participants had refused vaccination due to concerns related to vaccine safety. F1000 Research Limited 2021-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8477350/ /pubmed/34631015 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.28293.3 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Thapar R et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Thapar, Rekha
Kumar, Nithin
Surendran, Priya
Shahdiya, Aleemath
Mahendran, Vibha
Ramesh, Ranjitha
Shetty, Deepali J.
Unnikrishnan, Bhaskaran
Mithra, Prasanna
Holla, Ramesh
Bhagwan, Darshan
Kumar, Avinash
Vaccine hesitancy among mothers of under-five children in Coastal South India: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title Vaccine hesitancy among mothers of under-five children in Coastal South India: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_full Vaccine hesitancy among mothers of under-five children in Coastal South India: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Vaccine hesitancy among mothers of under-five children in Coastal South India: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Vaccine hesitancy among mothers of under-five children in Coastal South India: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_short Vaccine hesitancy among mothers of under-five children in Coastal South India: a facility-based cross-sectional study
title_sort vaccine hesitancy among mothers of under-five children in coastal south india: a facility-based cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8477350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34631015
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.28293.3
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