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Adapting and piloting a vaccine hesitancy questionnaire in rural Guatemala
- Source :
- Vaccine. 39:180-184
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Introduction We sought to (i) adapt a Spanish-language vaccine hesitancy (VH) tool to rural Guatemala, (ii) pilot the tool with 150 parents of children ≤ 5 years, and (iii) measure if parent scores associated with child under-vaccination. Methods We used implementation science to develop the adapted Guatemalan Vaccine Attitudes (GuaVA) tool, piloting it with 150 parents of children ≤ 5 years, and performing descriptive and adjusted regression analyses. Results Of 150 parents (response rate 99%), 55% (n = 83) of parents expressed a degree of VH. Children of parents with highly hesitant scores (n = 22) had 2.5 times the odds (OR 2.5; 95% CI: 1.2, 5.4) of being undervaccinated at 19 months, referent children of non-hesitant parents (n = 67). Conclusions Vaccine hesitancy may be more prevalent in rural Guatemala than suspected. Implementation science facilitated the adaptation of a VH tool to rural Guatemala and may assist investigators in other settings.
- Subjects :
- Parents
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
medicine.medical_specialty
030231 tropical medicine
Odds
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Vaccination Refusal
Surveys and Questionnaires
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
Response rate (survey)
Vaccines
General Veterinary
General Immunology and Microbiology
business.industry
Vaccination
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Guatemala
Infectious Diseases
Family medicine
Molecular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0264410X
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Vaccine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....102e4525c7c2d519e75181ab1de16025