Parents' Intentions to Vaccinate Their Children Against COVID-19.
Kristine M Ruggiero, John Wong, Casey Fryer Sweeney and 4 others
PMID 34217553WHAT IT FOUND
Most surveyed parents planned flu vaccination, but many were more hesitant about a new COVID vaccine.
Trust in vaccine information was linked to intent, so ask families about trust and side-effect concerns.
Key findings
01Of 427 responding parents, 81.61% had already or planned to vaccinate their child against flu, but 44.17% planned to vaccinate against COVID when a vaccine was available.
02Trust in vaccine information was linked to higher odds of intent for flu vaccination (12.239) and COVID vaccination (6.120).
03Concern about serious vaccine side effects was linked to lower odds of intent for flu vaccination (0.107) and COVID vaccination (0.270).
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What it does not show
Parents were surveyed from November 2020 to January 2021, during the height of the pandemic, so the results may not apply later. The sample was mostly White, English-speaking, insured, college-educated and suburban, and no Spanish-speaking participants took part, so it may not reflect diverse families. The survey was distributed through social media snowball sampling, so parents who saw it may not represent all families. It measured stated intentions, not actual vaccination, and it was not a trial of counseling or vaccine communication. The authors noted collinearity between predictor variables, which can make associations harder to separate.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the odds ratios as proof that trust or counseling causes vaccination intent. This was a cross-sectional web survey of parents' stated plans, not a randomized trial or an intervention study.