Vaccine hesitancy among paediatric nurses: Prevalence and associated factors
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- dc.contributor.author Elizondo-Alzola, Usue
- dc.contributor.author Carrasco, Mireia G.
- dc.contributor.author Pinós, Laia
- dc.contributor.author Picchio, Camila Andrea
- dc.contributor.author Rius, Cristina
- dc.contributor.author Diez, Èlia
- dc.date.accessioned 2022-06-01T05:31:52Z
- dc.date.available 2022-06-01T05:31:52Z
- dc.date.issued 2021
- dc.description.abstract Objective: This study describes the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy associated with the Catalan systematic childhood vaccination calendar and some related psychosocial determinants among paediatric primary care nurses in Barcelona (Spain). Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive study. In 2017 we invited the paediatric nurses (N = 165) working in Barcelona public primary health centres with paediatric departments (N = 41) to participate. They answered a questionnaire with sociodemographic and behavioural variables: severity and perceived probability of contracting the diseases of the vaccines in the vaccination schedule; safety and protection offered by each vaccine; and beliefs, social norms, and knowledge about vaccines. Outcome variable was vaccine hesitancy, dichotomized into not hesitant (nurses who would vaccinate their own offspring), and hesitant (including those who would not vaccinate them, those who had doubts and those who would delay the administration of one or more vaccines). We performed bivariate analysis and adjusted logistic regression models. Results: 83% of paediatric nurses (N = 137) agreed to participate. 67.9% had the intention to vaccinate their children of all the vaccines in the systematic schedule. 32.1% of nurses experienced vaccine hesitancy, especially about the HPV (21.9%) and varicella (17.5%) vaccines. The multivariate analysis suggests associations between hesitancy and low perception of the severity of whooping cough (aOR: 3.88; 95%CI:1.32-11.4), low perception of safety of the HPV vaccine (aOR:8.5;95%CI:1.24-57.8), the belief that vaccines are administered too early (aOR:6.09;95%CI:1.98-18.8), and not having children (aOR:4.05;95%CI:1.22-13.3). Conclusions: Although most paediatric nurses had the intention to vaccinate their own children, almost one-third reported some kind of vaccine hesitancy, mainly related to doubts about HPV and varicella vaccines, as well as some misconceptions. These factors should be addressed to enhance nurses' fundamental role in promoting vaccination to families.
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- dc.identifier.citation Elizondo-Alzola U, G Carrasco M, Pinós L, Picchio CA, Rius C, Diez E. Vaccine hesitancy among paediatric nurses: Prevalence and associated factors. PLoS One. 2021 May 19;16(5):e0251735. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0251735
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251735
- dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53332
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- dc.relation.ispartof PLoS One. 2021 May 19;16(5):e0251735
- dc.rights © 2021 Elizondo-Alzola et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- dc.subject.keyword Vaccines
- dc.subject.keyword Vaccination and immunization
- dc.subject.keyword Nurses
- dc.subject.keyword MMR vaccine
- dc.subject.keyword Pediatrics
- dc.subject.keyword Attenuated vaccines
- dc.subject.keyword Varicella zoster virus
- dc.subject.keyword Pertussis
- dc.title Vaccine hesitancy among paediatric nurses: Prevalence and associated factors
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