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Parents’ Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children With COVID-19 Vaccine: Results of a Survey in Italy

PURPOSE: This cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the parents’ willingness to vaccinate their children with the COVID-19 vaccine and related determinants with specific attention to willingness for adolescents as compared to younger children. METHODS: Data were collected through a confident...

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Autores principales: Di Giuseppe, Gabriella, Pelullo, Concetta Paola, Volgare, Andrea Salvatore, Napolitano, Francesco, Pavia, Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35305792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.01.003
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author Di Giuseppe, Gabriella
Pelullo, Concetta Paola
Volgare, Andrea Salvatore
Napolitano, Francesco
Pavia, Maria
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Pelullo, Concetta Paola
Volgare, Andrea Salvatore
Napolitano, Francesco
Pavia, Maria
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description PURPOSE: This cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the parents’ willingness to vaccinate their children with the COVID-19 vaccine and related determinants with specific attention to willingness for adolescents as compared to younger children. METHODS: Data were collected through a confidential online questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 607 parents agreed to participate. More than two-thirds of the parents had good knowledge about the modes of transmission of COVID-19, knew that subjects of any age may be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and 85.5% correctly indicated the main behavioral preventive measures against COVID-19. With regard to attitudes, 78.7% agreed that COVID-19 is a serious disease, whereas only 42.3% agreed that it is preventable. Overall, 68.5% were willing to vaccinate their children with the COVID-19 vaccine, specifically 74.5% of parents of adolescents and 65.5% of those of younger children, and the results of the multivariate analysis showed that parents of adolescents aged 12–15 years or 16–18 years compared to those of children aged 11 years or less, those who had more than two children, those who reported that their children had been visited by the primary care pediatrician/physician in the previous 12 months, those who agreed that COVID-19 is a serious disease, considered very useful the COVID-19 vaccine, had been vaccinated against influenza in the previous season, and had received at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to be willing to vaccinate their children. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, a relevant proportion of parents are willing to vaccinate their children, with the parents of adolescents showing a higher willingness compared to those of younger children. However, there is still room for reducing hesitancy and refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine in this strategic population group by promoting communication to mitigate concerns toward the COVID-19 vaccine.
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spelling pubmed-87679032022-01-19 Parents’ Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children With COVID-19 Vaccine: Results of a Survey in Italy Di Giuseppe, Gabriella Pelullo, Concetta Paola Volgare, Andrea Salvatore Napolitano, Francesco Pavia, Maria J Adolesc Health Original Article PURPOSE: This cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the parents’ willingness to vaccinate their children with the COVID-19 vaccine and related determinants with specific attention to willingness for adolescents as compared to younger children. METHODS: Data were collected through a confidential online questionnaire. RESULTS: A total of 607 parents agreed to participate. More than two-thirds of the parents had good knowledge about the modes of transmission of COVID-19, knew that subjects of any age may be susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and 85.5% correctly indicated the main behavioral preventive measures against COVID-19. With regard to attitudes, 78.7% agreed that COVID-19 is a serious disease, whereas only 42.3% agreed that it is preventable. Overall, 68.5% were willing to vaccinate their children with the COVID-19 vaccine, specifically 74.5% of parents of adolescents and 65.5% of those of younger children, and the results of the multivariate analysis showed that parents of adolescents aged 12–15 years or 16–18 years compared to those of children aged 11 years or less, those who had more than two children, those who reported that their children had been visited by the primary care pediatrician/physician in the previous 12 months, those who agreed that COVID-19 is a serious disease, considered very useful the COVID-19 vaccine, had been vaccinated against influenza in the previous season, and had received at least one shot of COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to be willing to vaccinate their children. CONCLUSION: In conclusion, a relevant proportion of parents are willing to vaccinate their children, with the parents of adolescents showing a higher willingness compared to those of younger children. However, there is still room for reducing hesitancy and refusal of the COVID-19 vaccine in this strategic population group by promoting communication to mitigate concerns toward the COVID-19 vaccine. Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 2022-04 2022-01-19 /pmc/articles/PMC8767903/ /pubmed/35305792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.01.003 Text en © 2022 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Di Giuseppe, Gabriella
Pelullo, Concetta Paola
Volgare, Andrea Salvatore
Napolitano, Francesco
Pavia, Maria
Parents’ Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children With COVID-19 Vaccine: Results of a Survey in Italy
title Parents’ Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children With COVID-19 Vaccine: Results of a Survey in Italy
title_full Parents’ Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children With COVID-19 Vaccine: Results of a Survey in Italy
title_fullStr Parents’ Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children With COVID-19 Vaccine: Results of a Survey in Italy
title_full_unstemmed Parents’ Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children With COVID-19 Vaccine: Results of a Survey in Italy
title_short Parents’ Willingness to Vaccinate Their Children With COVID-19 Vaccine: Results of a Survey in Italy
title_sort parents’ willingness to vaccinate their children with covid-19 vaccine: results of a survey in italy
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35305792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.01.003
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