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Parents' perception of COVID-19 risk of infection and intention to vaccinate their children

BACKGROUND: Parent's perception of the COVID-19 vaccines is very important to protect themselves and their children and achieve maximum effect of vaccination programs. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the perception and attitude of parents towards COVID-19 risk of infection and intentions to vaccinate their...

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Autores principales: Sabra, Hamdy Khaled, Bakr, Mostafa Abdulraheem, Rageh, Omar El Sayed Mohmed, Khaled, Asmaa, Elbakliesh, Omnia Mohamed, Kabbash, Ibrahim Ali
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9424507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36062027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacun.2022.07.004
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author Sabra, Hamdy Khaled
Bakr, Mostafa Abdulraheem
Rageh, Omar El Sayed Mohmed
Khaled, Asmaa
Elbakliesh, Omnia Mohamed
Kabbash, Ibrahim Ali
author_facet Sabra, Hamdy Khaled
Bakr, Mostafa Abdulraheem
Rageh, Omar El Sayed Mohmed
Khaled, Asmaa
Elbakliesh, Omnia Mohamed
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description BACKGROUND: Parent's perception of the COVID-19 vaccines is very important to protect themselves and their children and achieve maximum effect of vaccination programs. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the perception and attitude of parents towards COVID-19 risk of infection and intentions to vaccinate their children. METHOD: Cross-sectional study including 1032 participants who have children aged from 5 to 18 years using a structured questionnaire. RESULTS: Overall, 65.0% of participants or their family members suffered from comorbidities that poses them at risk for COVID-19 infection such as hypertension (25.1%) and diabetes mellitus (16.1%). The prevalence of tobacco smoking in the studied families was 36.9%. Among participants, 40.6% had a family member with history of confirmed COVID-19 infection. Nearly one-half of studied parents (48.2%) reported COVID-19 as a serious infection and the majority were worried about getting a family member infected (86.8%). Among participants 62.0% of male parents and 57.8% of female parents agreed that vaccine information is reliable. Participants reporting safety of COVID-19 vaccination represented 45.3%. If vaccine is available, 40.1% of parents intended to vaccinate their children. The main factors associated with the willingness to vaccinate children were vaccine is not suitable for children under 18 years (OR = 11.508), concern about vaccination safety (OR = 8.678), doubts about reliability of vaccine information (OR = 7.811) and ability of vaccine to prevent infection (OR = 5.766). CONCLUSION: Our study provides a brief insight about how parents think about COVID-19 vaccines and acceptance to vaccinate their children.
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spelling pubmed-94245072022-08-30 Parents' perception of COVID-19 risk of infection and intention to vaccinate their children Sabra, Hamdy Khaled Bakr, Mostafa Abdulraheem Rageh, Omar El Sayed Mohmed Khaled, Asmaa Elbakliesh, Omnia Mohamed Kabbash, Ibrahim Ali Vacunas Original BACKGROUND: Parent's perception of the COVID-19 vaccines is very important to protect themselves and their children and achieve maximum effect of vaccination programs. OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the perception and attitude of parents towards COVID-19 risk of infection and intentions to vaccinate their children. METHOD: Cross-sectional study including 1032 participants who have children aged from 5 to 18 years using a structured questionnaire. RESULTS: Overall, 65.0% of participants or their family members suffered from comorbidities that poses them at risk for COVID-19 infection such as hypertension (25.1%) and diabetes mellitus (16.1%). The prevalence of tobacco smoking in the studied families was 36.9%. Among participants, 40.6% had a family member with history of confirmed COVID-19 infection. Nearly one-half of studied parents (48.2%) reported COVID-19 as a serious infection and the majority were worried about getting a family member infected (86.8%). Among participants 62.0% of male parents and 57.8% of female parents agreed that vaccine information is reliable. Participants reporting safety of COVID-19 vaccination represented 45.3%. If vaccine is available, 40.1% of parents intended to vaccinate their children. The main factors associated with the willingness to vaccinate children were vaccine is not suitable for children under 18 years (OR = 11.508), concern about vaccination safety (OR = 8.678), doubts about reliability of vaccine information (OR = 7.811) and ability of vaccine to prevent infection (OR = 5.766). CONCLUSION: Our study provides a brief insight about how parents think about COVID-19 vaccines and acceptance to vaccinate their children. Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2023 2022-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9424507/ /pubmed/36062027 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacun.2022.07.004 Text en © 2022 Elsevier España, S.L.U. 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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Bakr, Mostafa Abdulraheem
Rageh, Omar El Sayed Mohmed
Khaled, Asmaa
Elbakliesh, Omnia Mohamed
Kabbash, Ibrahim Ali
Parents' perception of COVID-19 risk of infection and intention to vaccinate their children
title Parents' perception of COVID-19 risk of infection and intention to vaccinate their children
title_full Parents' perception of COVID-19 risk of infection and intention to vaccinate their children
title_fullStr Parents' perception of COVID-19 risk of infection and intention to vaccinate their children
title_full_unstemmed Parents' perception of COVID-19 risk of infection and intention to vaccinate their children
title_short Parents' perception of COVID-19 risk of infection and intention to vaccinate their children
title_sort parents' perception of covid-19 risk of infection and intention to vaccinate their children
topic Original
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9424507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36062027
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacun.2022.07.004
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