Tags

Type your tag names separated by a space and hit enter

Parent/guardian intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19 in the United States.
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2022 11 30; 18(5):2071078.HV

Abstract

Vaccination is critical for protecting adults and children from COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death. Analyzing subsamples of parent/guardians of children age 0-11 (n = 343) and 12-17 (n = 322) from a larger national survey of US adults (n = 2,022), we aimed to assess intentions to vaccinate children and how intentions might vary across parent/guardian sociodemographic characteristics, healthcare coverage, vaccination status, political affiliation, prior COVID-19 infection, exposure to COVID-19 death(s) of family or friends, perceived norms of vaccination, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. We also report the prevalence of vaccinated children for parents whose oldest child was eligible for vaccination at the time of the survey. More than one third of parents whose oldest child was not yet eligible for vaccination (11 or younger) planned to get them vaccinated right away when a vaccine became available to them. Among parents whose child was eligible to be vaccinated (age 12-17 years), approximately a third reported their child had already been vaccinated and approximately a third planned to do so right away. Intentions to vaccinate children age 0 to 11 were significantly associated with age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, COVID-19 vaccination, political affiliation, social norms, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Intentions to vaccinate children age 12 to 17 were significantly associated with age, education, healthcare coverage, COVID-19 vaccination, political affiliation, social norms, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. We discuss implications for public health officials and for future research.

Links

Authors+Show Affiliations

College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Fayetteville, AR, USA.

College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Fayetteville, AR, USA.

Office of Community Health and Research, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Fayetteville, AR, USA.

College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Fayetteville, AR, USA.

Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Fayetteville, AR, USA.

College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Fayetteville, AR, USA.

College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Northwest, Fayetteville, AR, USA.

MeSH

AdolescentAdultCOVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesChildChild, PreschoolHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansInfantInfant, NewbornIntentionParentsUnited StatesVaccination

Pub Type(s)

Journal Article

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Language

eng

PubMed ID

35506876

Citation

Willis, Don E., et al. "Parent/guardian Intentions to Vaccinate Children Against COVID-19 in the United States." Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, vol. 18, no. 5, 2022, p. 2071078.

Willis DE, Schootman M, Shah SK, et al. Parent/guardian intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19 in the United States. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2022;18(5):2071078.

Willis, D. E., Schootman, M., Shah, S. K., Reece, S., Selig, J. P., Andersen, J. A., & McElfish, P. A. (2022). Parent/guardian intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19 in the United States. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 18(5), 2071078. https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2022.2071078

Willis DE, et al. Parent/guardian Intentions to Vaccinate Children Against COVID-19 in the United States. Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2022 11 30;18(5):2071078. PubMed PMID: 35506876.

* Article titles in AMA citation format should be in sentence-case

TY - JOUR T1 - Parent/guardian intentions to vaccinate children against COVID-19 in the United States. AU - Willis,Don E, AU - Schootman,Mario, AU - Shah,Sumit K, AU - Reece,Sharon, AU - Selig,James P, AU - Andersen,Jennifer A, AU - McElfish,Pearl A, Y1 - 2022/05/04/ PY - 2022/5/5/pubmed PY - 2022/7/23/medline PY - 2022/5/4/entrez KW - COVID-19 KW - COVID-19 vaccine KW - child KW - parent/guardian KW - vaccine hesitancy SP - 2071078 EP - 2071078 JF - Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics JO - Hum Vaccin Immunother VL - 18 IS - 5 N2 - Vaccination is critical for protecting adults and children from COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death. Analyzing subsamples of parent/guardians of children age 0-11 (n = 343) and 12-17 (n = 322) from a larger national survey of US adults (n = 2,022), we aimed to assess intentions to vaccinate children and how intentions might vary across parent/guardian sociodemographic characteristics, healthcare coverage, vaccination status, political affiliation, prior COVID-19 infection, exposure to COVID-19 death(s) of family or friends, perceived norms of vaccination, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. We also report the prevalence of vaccinated children for parents whose oldest child was eligible for vaccination at the time of the survey. More than one third of parents whose oldest child was not yet eligible for vaccination (11 or younger) planned to get them vaccinated right away when a vaccine became available to them. Among parents whose child was eligible to be vaccinated (age 12-17 years), approximately a third reported their child had already been vaccinated and approximately a third planned to do so right away. Intentions to vaccinate children age 0 to 11 were significantly associated with age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, COVID-19 vaccination, political affiliation, social norms, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Intentions to vaccinate children age 12 to 17 were significantly associated with age, education, healthcare coverage, COVID-19 vaccination, political affiliation, social norms, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. We discuss implications for public health officials and for future research. SN - 2164-554X UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/35506876/Parent/guardian_intentions_to_vaccinate_children_against_COVID_19_in_the_United_States_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -