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Education level modifies parental hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccinations for their children

It is important to encourage parental acceptance of children’s vaccination against COVID-19 to ensure population immunity and mitigate morbidity and mortality. This study drew upon protection motivation theory (PMT) to explore the factors of parental hesitancy about vaccinating their children. A nat...

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Autores principales: Tang, Shuning, Liu, Xin, Jia, Yingnan, Chen, Hao, Zheng, Pinpin, Fu, Hua, Xiao, Qianyi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9705202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36494253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.11.060
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author Tang, Shuning
Liu, Xin
Jia, Yingnan
Chen, Hao
Zheng, Pinpin
Fu, Hua
Xiao, Qianyi
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Chen, Hao
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description It is important to encourage parental acceptance of children’s vaccination against COVID-19 to ensure population immunity and mitigate morbidity and mortality. This study drew upon protection motivation theory (PMT) to explore the factors of parental hesitancy about vaccinating their children. A national online survey was performed in China. A total of 2054 Chinese parents of children aged 6–12 years were included in this study. They reported on measures that assessed hesitancy about children’s vaccination against COVID-19, PMT constructs (susceptibility, severity, response efficacy, self-efficacy, and response costs) and sociodemographic characteristics. Chinese parents reported a hesitancy rate of 29.4% for children’s vaccination. Parents with higher level education were more likely to hesitate to vaccinate their children against COVID-19. After controlling for parents’ and children’s demographic variables, logistic regression showed that parents’ hesitancy about their children’s vaccination increased if parents had lower levels of susceptibility, response efficacy or self-efficacy, as well as higher levels of response costs. In addition, a high educational level can significantly increase the promotive effect of response cost and the protective effect of response efficacy on vaccine hesitancy. In conclusion, our findings suggested that PMT can explain parents' vaccine hesitancy and that education level can modify the effect of copying appraisal, but not threat appraisal, on parental hesitancy. This study will help public health officials send targeted messages to parents to improve the rate of COVID-19 vaccination in children aged 6–12 years and thus reach a higher level of immunity in the population.
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spelling pubmed-97052022022-11-29 Education level modifies parental hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccinations for their children Tang, Shuning Liu, Xin Jia, Yingnan Chen, Hao Zheng, Pinpin Fu, Hua Xiao, Qianyi Vaccine Article It is important to encourage parental acceptance of children’s vaccination against COVID-19 to ensure population immunity and mitigate morbidity and mortality. This study drew upon protection motivation theory (PMT) to explore the factors of parental hesitancy about vaccinating their children. A national online survey was performed in China. A total of 2054 Chinese parents of children aged 6–12 years were included in this study. They reported on measures that assessed hesitancy about children’s vaccination against COVID-19, PMT constructs (susceptibility, severity, response efficacy, self-efficacy, and response costs) and sociodemographic characteristics. Chinese parents reported a hesitancy rate of 29.4% for children’s vaccination. Parents with higher level education were more likely to hesitate to vaccinate their children against COVID-19. After controlling for parents’ and children’s demographic variables, logistic regression showed that parents’ hesitancy about their children’s vaccination increased if parents had lower levels of susceptibility, response efficacy or self-efficacy, as well as higher levels of response costs. In addition, a high educational level can significantly increase the promotive effect of response cost and the protective effect of response efficacy on vaccine hesitancy. In conclusion, our findings suggested that PMT can explain parents' vaccine hesitancy and that education level can modify the effect of copying appraisal, but not threat appraisal, on parental hesitancy. This study will help public health officials send targeted messages to parents to improve the rate of COVID-19 vaccination in children aged 6–12 years and thus reach a higher level of immunity in the population. Elsevier Ltd. 2023-01-09 2022-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9705202/ /pubmed/36494253 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.11.060 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. 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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title Education level modifies parental hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccinations for their children
title_full Education level modifies parental hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccinations for their children
title_fullStr Education level modifies parental hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccinations for their children
title_full_unstemmed Education level modifies parental hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccinations for their children
title_short Education level modifies parental hesitancy about COVID-19 vaccinations for their children
title_sort education level modifies parental hesitancy about covid-19 vaccinations for their children
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9705202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36494253
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.11.060
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