1. Parents' reasoning about HPV vaccination in Sweden.
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Runngren, Eva, Eriksson, Mats, and Blomberg, Karin
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VACCINATION ,PARENT attitudes ,OCCUPATIONAL roles ,IMMUNIZATION ,SCHOOL health services ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,RESEARCH methodology ,INTERVIEWING ,MEDICAL protocols ,QUALITATIVE research ,HEALTH literacy ,HUMAN papillomavirus vaccines ,PATIENT-family relations ,DECISION making ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,NURSES ,PARENT-child relationships ,THEMATIC analysis ,DATA analysis software ,CONTENT analysis ,HEALTH promotion ,TRUST - Abstract
Introduction: The aim of this study was to describe parents' reasoning in making decisions about vaccinating their daughters against human papilloma virus (HPV), a part of the Swedish vaccination programme. Method: Twenty parents whose daughter had been offered HPV vaccination participated. Semi‐structured individual interviews were conducted and analysed using thematic analysis. Results: The findings reveal that the decision‐making process is complex. The parents trusted the vaccination programme and saw it as beneficial to society. They also described using different resources to decide about HPV vaccination, but they did not include their daughters in making the decision. Discussion: Parents need better vaccine and health literacy to be able to decide, based on evidence and in consultation with their daughters, on HPV vaccination. School nurses can play an important role in evidence‐based decision‐making about HPV vaccination and introducing children to this health‐promoting intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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