Anti-COVID Vaccination for Adolescents: A Survey on Determinants of Vaccine Parental Hesitancy

Vaccine hesitancy has been considered one of the most severe threats to global health, as it represents an obstacle to achieving adequate vaccination coverage. Recent research studies aimed at investigating the propensity for anti-COVID vaccination among adults have found a high prevalence of vaccin...

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Autores principales:	Stefano Zona, Simonetta Partesotti, Andrea Bergomi, Cristiano Rosafio, Francesco Antodaro, Susanna Esposito
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:0371148615a042dfa88da7228385cb252021-11-25T19:11:11ZAnti-COVID Vaccination for Adolescents: A Survey on Determinants of Vaccine Parental Hesitancy10.3390/vaccines91113092076-393Xhttps://doaj.org/article/0371148615a042dfa88da7228385cb252021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/11/1309https://doaj.org/toc/2076-393XVaccine hesitancy has been considered one of the most severe threats to global health, as it represents an obstacle to achieving adequate vaccination coverage. Recent research studies aimed at investigating the propensity for anti-COVID vaccination among adults have found a high prevalence of vaccine hesitancy, but few data are available on parental vaccine hesitancy. We therefore built an anonymous online survey to investigate the factors related to the vaccine hesitancy of parents of adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age, with a special focus on demographic factors and the domains of confidence and complacency. The online survey was conducted by using the Crowd Signal platform from 15 July to 16 August 2021, in Italy. A total of 1799 analyzable questionnaires were analyzed. Overall, Favorable and Doubtful parents declared a higher level of confidence on safety and efficacy of pediatric vaccines and on confidence in health institutions than Hesitant/Reluctant ones (<i>p</i>-values < 0.001). The univariate multinomial logistic regression analysis and the multivariate multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that the Hesitant/Reluctant parents were younger than 40 years of age, with a secondary-school or three-year degree, free-lance, with a family income below €28,000, with an erroneous perception of the risk of COVID-19 as disease and with fear of anti-COVID vaccination. These results, which should be confirmed in a larger population and in different geographical areas, should lead Institutions and stakeholders to identify targeted communication tools to improve trust in health institutions, especially by younger parents.Stefano ZonaSimonetta PartesottiAndrea BergomiCristiano RosafioFrancesco AntodaroSusanna EspositoMDPI AGarticleadolescentsCOVID-19COVID-19 vaccinespediatric infectious diseasesvaccine hesitancyMedicineRENVaccines, Vol 9, Iss 1309, p 1309 (2021)
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spellingShingle	adolescents COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccines pediatric infectious diseases vaccine hesitancy Medicine R Stefano Zona Simonetta Partesotti Andrea Bergomi Cristiano Rosafio Francesco Antodaro Susanna Esposito Anti-COVID Vaccination for Adolescents: A Survey on Determinants of Vaccine Parental Hesitancy
description	Vaccine hesitancy has been considered one of the most severe threats to global health, as it represents an obstacle to achieving adequate vaccination coverage. Recent research studies aimed at investigating the propensity for anti-COVID vaccination among adults have found a high prevalence of vaccine hesitancy, but few data are available on parental vaccine hesitancy. We therefore built an anonymous online survey to investigate the factors related to the vaccine hesitancy of parents of adolescents between 12 and 17 years of age, with a special focus on demographic factors and the domains of confidence and complacency. The online survey was conducted by using the Crowd Signal platform from 15 July to 16 August 2021, in Italy. A total of 1799 analyzable questionnaires were analyzed. Overall, Favorable and Doubtful parents declared a higher level of confidence on safety and efficacy of pediatric vaccines and on confidence in health institutions than Hesitant/Reluctant ones (<i>p</i>-values < 0.001). The univariate multinomial logistic regression analysis and the multivariate multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that the Hesitant/Reluctant parents were younger than 40 years of age, with a secondary-school or three-year degree, free-lance, with a family income below €28,000, with an erroneous perception of the risk of COVID-19 as disease and with fear of anti-COVID vaccination. These results, which should be confirmed in a larger population and in different geographical areas, should lead Institutions and stakeholders to identify targeted communication tools to improve trust in health institutions, especially by younger parents.
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author	Stefano Zona Simonetta Partesotti Andrea Bergomi Cristiano Rosafio Francesco Antodaro Susanna Esposito
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title	Anti-COVID Vaccination for Adolescents: A Survey on Determinants of Vaccine Parental Hesitancy
title_short	Anti-COVID Vaccination for Adolescents: A Survey on Determinants of Vaccine Parental Hesitancy
title_full	Anti-COVID Vaccination for Adolescents: A Survey on Determinants of Vaccine Parental Hesitancy
title_fullStr	Anti-COVID Vaccination for Adolescents: A Survey on Determinants of Vaccine Parental Hesitancy
title_full_unstemmed	Anti-COVID Vaccination for Adolescents: A Survey on Determinants of Vaccine Parental Hesitancy
title_sort	anti-covid vaccination for adolescents: a survey on determinants of vaccine parental hesitancy
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/0371148615a042dfa88da7228385cb25
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Anti-COVID Vaccination for Adolescents: A Survey on Determinants of Vaccine Parental Hesitancy

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