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Personal risk or societal benefit? Investigating adults' support for COVID-19 childhood vaccination.
- Source :
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Vaccine . Jun2023, Vol. 41 Issue 25, p3683-3687. 5p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Parental hesitancy poses a serious threat to the success of the COVID-19 childhood vaccination campaign. We investigate whether adults' opinions on childhood vaccination can be influenced via two survey experiments in Italy (n = 3,633 participants) and the UK (n = 3,314 participants). Respondents were randomly assigned to: a "risk treatment" that highlighted the potential risks of COVID-19 to a child, a "herd immunity treatment" that emphasized the community benefits of pediatric vaccination, or a control message. Participants' probability of supporting COVID-19 childhood vaccination was then assessed on a 0–100 scale. We find that the "risk treatment" reduced the proportion of Italian parents strongly against vaccination by up to 29.6 %, while increasing the proportion of neutral parents by up to 45.0 %. The "herd immunity treatment", instead, was only effective among non-parents, resulting in a lower proportion of individuals against pediatric vaccination and a higher proportion of individuals in favor (both shifted by around 20 %). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *VACCINATION of children
*COVID-19 vaccines
*HERD immunity
*ADULTS
*VACCINATION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0264410X
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 25
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Vaccine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163995181
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.05.017