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Parents’ and guardians’ acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey

Few studies have examined the intentions of parents and guardians to vaccinate their children younger than 18 years against COVID-19 in Ghana. Parents are the decision makers for children younger than 18 years; therefore, we examined parents’ and guardians’ intentions to accept the COVID-19 vaccines...

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Autores principales: Kyei-Arthur, Frank, Kyei-Gyamfi, Sylvester, Agyekum, Martin Wiredu, Afrifa-Anane, Grace Frempong, Amoh, Bernard Akyeampong
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9423663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36037233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272801
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author Kyei-Arthur, Frank
Kyei-Gyamfi, Sylvester
Agyekum, Martin Wiredu
Afrifa-Anane, Grace Frempong
Amoh, Bernard Akyeampong
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description Few studies have examined the intentions of parents and guardians to vaccinate their children younger than 18 years against COVID-19 in Ghana. Parents are the decision makers for children younger than 18 years; therefore, we examined parents’ and guardians’ intentions to accept the COVID-19 vaccines for their children. An online survey was conducted among 415 parents and guardians in Ghana. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25 was used to analyse the data. We found that 73.3% of parents/guardians would allow their children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The binary logistic regression analysis shows that parents/guardians with Senior High School education, those who believed COVID-19 could not be cured, and those who agreed and those who neither agreed nor disagreed with the statement “once the vaccine is available and approved, it would be safe” were less likely to accept COVID-19 vaccine for their children. Also, parents/guardians who neither agreed nor disagreed that “the best way to avoid the complications of COVID-19 is by being vaccinated”, those who agreed that “I am of the notion that physiological/natural community is better compared to vaccine-induced immunity” and “I believe the vaccine programming may be likened to the new world order” were less likely to accept COVID-19 vaccine for their children. There is a need for public health practitioners to intensify education on the benefits and side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as provide regular and up-to-date information about vaccines’ safety to parents and guardians.
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spelling pubmed-94236632022-08-30 Parents’ and guardians’ acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey Kyei-Arthur, Frank Kyei-Gyamfi, Sylvester Agyekum, Martin Wiredu Afrifa-Anane, Grace Frempong Amoh, Bernard Akyeampong PLoS One Research Article Few studies have examined the intentions of parents and guardians to vaccinate their children younger than 18 years against COVID-19 in Ghana. Parents are the decision makers for children younger than 18 years; therefore, we examined parents’ and guardians’ intentions to accept the COVID-19 vaccines for their children. An online survey was conducted among 415 parents and guardians in Ghana. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25 was used to analyse the data. We found that 73.3% of parents/guardians would allow their children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The binary logistic regression analysis shows that parents/guardians with Senior High School education, those who believed COVID-19 could not be cured, and those who agreed and those who neither agreed nor disagreed with the statement “once the vaccine is available and approved, it would be safe” were less likely to accept COVID-19 vaccine for their children. Also, parents/guardians who neither agreed nor disagreed that “the best way to avoid the complications of COVID-19 is by being vaccinated”, those who agreed that “I am of the notion that physiological/natural community is better compared to vaccine-induced immunity” and “I believe the vaccine programming may be likened to the new world order” were less likely to accept COVID-19 vaccine for their children. There is a need for public health practitioners to intensify education on the benefits and side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as provide regular and up-to-date information about vaccines’ safety to parents and guardians. Public Library of Science 2022-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9423663/ /pubmed/36037233 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272801 Text en © 2022 Kyei-Arthur et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Parents’ and guardians’ acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey
title_fullStr Parents’ and guardians’ acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey
title_full_unstemmed Parents’ and guardians’ acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey
title_short Parents’ and guardians’ acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey
title_sort parents’ and guardians’ acceptability of covid-19 vaccination for children in ghana: an online survey
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9423663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36037233
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272801
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