Parental Attitudes, Beliefs, and Experiences Related to Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination.

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• Alternative Title:
  Vaccine, 2025, v. 62: Parental Attitudes, Beliefs, and Experiences Related to Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccination.
• Journal Article:
  Vaccine
• Personal Author:
  Kang, Yoonjae ; Zhang, Fan ; Vogt, Tara M
• Description:
  To assess parental attitudes, beliefs, and experiences related to pediatric COVID-19 vaccination.
  
  An online, national survey of 2005 U.S. parents aged 18 and older was conducted during August 17-25, 2023. Parental attitudes and beliefs about pediatric COVID-19 vaccination, receipt of a COVID-19 vaccination recommendation for their child, and reasons for not getting their child vaccinated against COVID-19 were assessed. Factors associated with child's COVID-19 vaccination were also assessed.
  
  Less than half (46.1 %) of responding parents strongly or somewhat agreed that COVID-19 vaccine is generally safe for children; agreement was higher among parents of 12-17-year-olds (54.2 %) vs. 0-4-year-olds (35.4 %), children with private (52.8 %) vs. Medicaid/CHIP health insurance (41.0 %), and those living in urban (54.2 %) vs. rural areas (29.8 %) (p-values<0.0001). Approximately 60 % of parents reported that their child's health care provider (HCP) recommended COVID-19 vaccination for their child, with higher proportions reporting a recommendation among those with 12-17-year-olds (73.1 %) vs. 0-4-year-olds (43.1 %) (p-value<0.0001), children with private (65.6 %) vs. Medicaid/CHIP health insurance (58.2 %) (p-value = 0.0013), and those living in urban (67.3 %) vs. rural areas (51.6 %) (p-value<0.0001). The top three reported reasons for not getting their child vaccinated against COVID-19 were 1) worry about serious/unknown long-term health problems from the vaccine (52.8 %), 2) a belief that COVID-19 vaccination is not effective at preventing COVID-19 (36.3 %), and 3) child/family has already had COVID-19 (19.3 %). Parents who had received COVID-19 vaccine themselves were more likely to vaccinate their child against COVID-19 (received bivalent vaccine dose: OR = 25.8 15.9, 41.7; received at least one dose, but not bivalent vaccine dose: OR = 11.1 6.8, 18.2).
  
  Parental concerns around serious/unknown long-term health problems related to COVID-19 vaccination were observed. In addition, a significant proportion of parents reported not having received a COVID-19 vaccination recommendation. Addressing parents' concerns regarding vaccine safety remains important, especially in rural areas.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • Parents
  • Child
  • COVID-19 Vaccines
  • COVID-19
  • Adolescent
  • Male
  • Female
  • Child, Preschool
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  More +
• Keywords:
  • pediatric COVID-19 vaccination
  • parental vaccination attitudes/beliefs
  • COVID-19 vaccination
• Source:
  Vaccine, 2025, v. 62
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127043
• ISSN:
  0264-410X ; 1873-2518
• Pubmed ID:
  40716145
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC12448224
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  127043 (17 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  62
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/261226/cdc_261226_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 463.42 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4fe103fa24d08e4dc7d0b425e1f3d3dcfe47f8030c9541ffe34578fe0eb1bfa9dec5426c09275c5b31c4531c654a2a776cf5c1a99e81f8e5f68038dc6306645e