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EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH
卷 45, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
KOREAN SOC EPIDEMIOLOGY
DOI: 10.4178/epih.e2023004
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SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19 vaccines; Child; Adolescents
资金
- Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency [2021-10-023]
Providing accurate and reliable information on vaccine effectiveness and safety is important to increase the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in children. Differential or targeted approaches to parents according to gender, age, and their children's age are necessary for effective communication about vaccination in children.
OBJECTIVES: Vaccination is one of the most important strategies to contain the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Vaccination in children is dependent on their parents, making it important to understand parents' awareness and attitudes to-ward vaccines in order to devise strategies to raise vaccination rates in children.METHODS: A web-based nationwide survey was conducted among Korean parents of 7-year-old to 18-year-old children in August 2021 to estimate parents' intention to vaccinate their children against COVID-19 and identify key factors affecting pa -rental acceptance and hesitancy through regression analysis.RESULTS: Approximately 56.4% (575/1,019) were willing to vaccinate their children against COVID-19. Contributing factors to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy were being a mother (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 0.36; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.25 to 0.52), a lower education level (aOR, 0.83; 95% CI, 0.70 to 0.97), hesitancy to other childhood vaccines (aOR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.64 to 0.96), and refusal to vaccinate themselves (aOR, 0.08; 95% CI, 0.02 to 0.20). Having older children (aOR, 1.20; 95% CI, 1.13 to 1.28), trusting the child's doctor (aOR, 1.19; 95% CI, 1.07 to 1.32), positive perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine's effective-ness (aOR, 2.60; 95% CI, 1.90 to 3.57) and perceiving the COVID-19 vaccine as low-risk (aOR, 1.68; 95% CI, 1.27 to 2.24) were associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. Concerns about adverse reactions were the most common cause of hesitancy.CONCLUSIONS: Providing parents with accurate and reliable information on vaccine effectiveness and safety is important to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake in children. Differential or targeted approaches to parents according to gender, age, and their children's age are necessary for effective communication about vaccination in children.
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