Vaccine hesitancy among paediatric nurses: Prevalence and associated factors.
PLoS One
; 16(5): e0251735, 2021.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1238768
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
This study describes the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy associated with the Catalan systematic childhood vaccination calendar and some related psychosocial determinants among paediatric primary care nurses in Barcelona (Spain).METHODS:
Cross-sectional descriptive study. In 2017 we invited the paediatric nurses (N = 165) working in Barcelona public primary health centres with paediatric departments (N = 41) to participate. They answered a questionnaire with sociodemographic and behavioural variables severity and perceived probability of contracting the diseases of the vaccines in the vaccination schedule; safety and protection offered by each vaccine; and beliefs, social norms, and knowledge about vaccines. Outcome variable was vaccine hesitancy, dichotomized into not hesitant (nurses who would vaccinate their own offspring), and hesitant (including those who would not vaccinate them, those who had doubts and those who would delay the administration of one or more vaccines). We performed bivariate analysis and adjusted logistic regression models.RESULTS:
83% of paediatric nurses (N = 137) agreed to participate. 67.9% had the intention to vaccinate their children of all the vaccines in the systematic schedule. 32.1% of nurses experienced vaccine hesitancy, especially about the HPV (21.9%) and varicella (17.5%) vaccines. The multivariate analysis suggests associations between hesitancy and low perception of the severity of whooping cough (aOR 3.88; 95%CI1.32-11.4), low perception of safety of the HPV vaccine (aOR8.5;95%CI1.24-57.8), the belief that vaccines are administered too early (aOR6.09;95%CI1.98-18.8), and not having children (aOR4.05;95%CI1.22-13.3).CONCLUSIONS:
Although most paediatric nurses had the intention to vaccinate their own children, almost one-third reported some kind of vaccine hesitancy, mainly related to doubts about HPV and varicella vaccines, as well as some misconceptions. These factors should be addressed to enhance nurses' fundamental role in promoting vaccination to families.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Immunization Programs
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Vaccination Refusal
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Nurses, Pediatric
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
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Systematic review/Meta Analysis
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Journal:
PLoS One
Journal subject:
Science
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Medicine
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Journal.pone.0251735
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