Women's views and experiences of accessing pertussis vaccination in pregnancy and infant vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-methods study in the UK

  1. Helen Skirrow
  2. Sara Barnett
  3. Sadie Bell
  4. Sandra Mounier-Jack
  5. Beate Kampmann
  6. Beth Holder

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.06.076
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    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsIRB: Ethical approval: This study was approved by Imperial College Research Ethics Committee (ICREC) (Ref: 20IC6188).
    Consent: Informed written and verbal consent was obtained from participants.
    Sex as a biological variableWomen were also asked whether they felt it was important to have their baby vaccinated during the pandemic.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.

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    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

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    Consistent with the findings by Bell et al., we also observed that women from ethnic minorities were more likely to report physical limitations and feeling unsafe when accessing vaccines for their children during the pandemic (18). Different factors affect ethnic minorities living the UK having lower vaccine uptake including access barriers and vaccine confidence (27, 28). However, during COVID-19 the increased risk to ethnic-minority populations has been well publicised (29) and ethnic-minority pregnant women are also more likely to admitted to hospital with COVID-19 (30). Ethnic-minority women may have therefore been more nervous about attending healthcare settings for pregnancy vaccines. We found that more women were vaccinated at hospital antenatal settings during COVID-19 compared to previous pregnancies which supports previous work that antenatal hospital vaccine clinics play a key role in delivering pregnancy vaccines (15) and only 7.5% of women reported a hospital vaccine appointment being changed. Further evaluation of the impact of antenatally delivered vaccines on uptake, including during COVID-19 is required (14, 31). We also found that where women received pregnancy vaccines varied geographically across the UK nations and regionally. This could reflect variation in pre-existing maternal vaccine service provision prior to the pandemic, changes to services in response to the pandemic or transport variation. Mcquaid et al found that the impact of COVID-19 on routine...

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