Parent Attitudes Towards Childhood Vaccines After the Onset of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States.
Acad Pediatr
; 22(8): 1407-1413, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1914088
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To understand the influence of a novel infectious disease epidemic on parent general attitudes about childhood vaccines.METHODS:
We conducted a natural experiment utilizing cross-sectional survey data from parents of infants in Washington and Colorado participating in a larger trial that began on September 27, 2019. At enrollment, parents completed the short version of the Parental Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines (PACV-SF), a validated survey scored from 0 to 4, with higher scores representing more negative attitudes. The exposure variable was onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in the United States, with the before-period defined as September 27, 2019 to February 28, 2020 and the after-period defined as April 1, 2020-December 10, 2020, with the after-period further separated into proximate (April 1, 2020-July 31, 2020) and distant periods (August 1, 2020-December 10, 2020). The outcome variable was parent negative attitudes about childhood vaccines, defined as a score of ≥2 on the PACV-SF. We estimated the probability of the outcome after (vs before) the exposure using log-binomial regression with generalized estimating equations adjusted for demographic confounding variables.RESULTS:
Among 4562 parents, the risk of negative attitudes was lower immediately after (vs before) SARS-CoV-2 onset (adjusted risk ratio [aRR] = 0.58; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.36, 0.94; P = .027), but by August-December 2020, the average rate of negative attitudes was 35% higher than during April-July 2020 (aRR 1.35; 95% CI 1.13, 1.61; P = .0009).CONCLUSIONS:
A reduced risk of negative general vaccine attitudes observed immediately after SARS-CoV-2 onset was quickly attenuated.Keywords
Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Vaccines
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
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Randomized controlled trials
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Child
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Humans
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Infant
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Acad Pediatr
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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