The effects of parents' vaccine hesitancy and COVID-19 vaccine literacy on attitudes toward vaccinating their children during the pandemic.
İlknur Bektas, Murat Bektas
PMID 37142496WHAT IT FOUND
Parents' lack of confidence and perceived vaccine risk were linked to attitudes about vaccinating children.
Vaccine literacy was not linked to them. Nurses should target confidence and safety concerns, not just information.
Key findings
01Pandemic vaccine hesitancy and vaccine literacy scores together explained 25.4% of parents' attitudes toward vaccinating children against COVID-19.
02Lack of confidence and perceived risk were associated with parents' vaccination attitudes, while vaccine literacy sub-scores were not.
03Of parents with children over 12, 68.8% had not vaccinated their child against COVID-19.
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What it does not show
The parents were recruited through social media as a convenience sample, so they may not represent all parents. 46.2% of the sample were healthcare workers, which may make the results less applicable to the general parent population. The study was cross-sectional, so it can show associations between hesitancy, literacy, and attitudes, but it cannot show that changing hesitancy or literacy changes vaccination decisions.
Declared interests
The authors declared no financial or personal conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that improving vaccine literacy will make parents vaccinate their children. The study found vaccine literacy sub-scores were not significantly associated with attitudes. Because the survey was cross-sectional, it cannot show that changing literacy changes vaccination behavior.