Parents’ intention to vaccinate their child for COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey (CoVAccS – wave 3)
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Abstract
Objectives
To investigate UK parents’ vaccination intention at a time when COVID-19 vaccination was available to some children.
Study design
Data reported are from the second wave of a prospective cohort study.
Methods
Online survey of 270 UK parents (conducted 4-15 October 2021). At this time, vaccination was available to 16- and 17-year-olds and had become available to 12- to 15- year-olds two weeks prior. We asked participants whose child had not yet been vaccinated how likely they were to vaccinate their child for COVID-19. Linear regression analyses were used to investigate factors associated with intention. Parents were also asked for their main reasons behind vaccination intention. Open-ended responses were analysed using content analysis.
Results
Parental vaccination intention was mixed (likely: 39.3%, 95% CI 32.8%, 45.7%; uncertain: 33.9%, 27.7%, 40.2%; unlikely: 26.8%, 20.9%, 32.6%). Intention was associated with: parental COVID-19 vaccination status; greater perceived necessity and social norms regarding COVID-19 vaccination; greater COVID-19 threat appraisal; and lower vaccine safety and novelty concerns. In those who intended to vaccinate their child, the main reasons for doing so were to protect the child and others. In those who did not intend to vaccinate their child, the main reason was safety concerns.
Conclusions
Parent COVID-19 vaccination and psychological factors explained a large percentage of the variance in vaccination intention for one’s child. How fluctuating infection rates, more children being vaccinated, and the UK’s reliance on vaccination as a strategy to live with COVID-19 may impact parents’ intention to vaccinate their child requires further study.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2022.05.20.22275350: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Ethics: We obtained ethical approval for this study from Keele University’s Research Ethics Committee (reference: PS-200129). Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis Power: We conducted a post-hoc power analysis based on linear regression analyses. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did …
SciScore for 10.1101/2022.05.20.22275350: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics IRB: Ethics: We obtained ethical approval for this study from Keele University’s Research Ethics Committee (reference: PS-200129). Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis Power: We conducted a post-hoc power analysis based on linear regression analyses. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.
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