Parents’ Views About the Vaccination Program in Taiwan
To investigate parents’ views about new vaccines, we surveyed the attitudes and awareness toward immunization program among parents of children younger than 14 years in Taiwan. Methods: Parents of children were invited to complete a questionnaire in a tertiary referral medical center in Kaoshiung, s...
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| description | To investigate parents’ views about new vaccines, we surveyed the attitudes and awareness toward immunization program among parents of children younger than 14 years in Taiwan.
Methods: Parents of children were invited to complete a questionnaire in a tertiary referral medical center in Kaoshiung, southern Taiwan from 2006 to 2008. A total of 535 questionnaires were completed. We used descriptive data for the analysis of parents’ views and attitudes toward the current vaccination program in Taiwan.
Results: Of the 535 respondents, most parents (93%) did not think the current vaccination program was satisfactory. Few (approximately 8%) preferred self-paid vaccines. About 63% of parents believed that the new (self-paid) vaccines provided more protection, whereas 48% deemed them too expensive. The most popular reason for preferring the new vaccines was greater protection (73%). One-half of parents considered the new vaccines to be expensive. Regarding parental awareness of side effect of vaccination, fever was the most well known and of greatest concern (91%). Most parents (68%) had good awareness of conjugated pneumococcal vaccines, and only few (13%) had heard of the human papilloma virus vaccine. Most parental information of vaccines came from pamphlets at the hospital (56%).
Conclusion: We found the awareness of parents about new vaccines to be insufficient. They also considered the new vaccines to be expensive. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5f6cbe0e26c24d52b6842cc1be965fa22025-08-20T02:54:51ZengElsevierPediatrics and Neonatology1875-95722011-04-015229810210.1016/j.pedneo.2011.02.009Parents’ Views About the Vaccination Program in TaiwanChia-Wan Tang0Shih-Hui Huang1Ken-Pen Weng2Luo-Ping Ger3Kai-Sheng Hsieh4Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, TaiwanDepartment of Nursing, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung, TaiwanDepartment of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, TaiwanDepartment of Medical Education and Research, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, TaiwanDepartment of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, TaiwanTo investigate parents’ views about new vaccines, we surveyed the attitudes and awareness toward immunization program among parents of children younger than 14 years in Taiwan. Methods: Parents of children were invited to complete a questionnaire in a tertiary referral medical center in Kaoshiung, southern Taiwan from 2006 to 2008. A total of 535 questionnaires were completed. We used descriptive data for the analysis of parents’ views and attitudes toward the current vaccination program in Taiwan. Results: Of the 535 respondents, most parents (93%) did not think the current vaccination program was satisfactory. Few (approximately 8%) preferred self-paid vaccines. About 63% of parents believed that the new (self-paid) vaccines provided more protection, whereas 48% deemed them too expensive. The most popular reason for preferring the new vaccines was greater protection (73%). One-half of parents considered the new vaccines to be expensive. Regarding parental awareness of side effect of vaccination, fever was the most well known and of greatest concern (91%). Most parents (68%) had good awareness of conjugated pneumococcal vaccines, and only few (13%) had heard of the human papilloma virus vaccine. Most parental information of vaccines came from pamphlets at the hospital (56%). Conclusion: We found the awareness of parents about new vaccines to be insufficient. They also considered the new vaccines to be expensive.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1875957211000118awarenessparents’ attitudevaccine |
| spellingShingle | Chia-Wan Tang Shih-Hui Huang Ken-Pen Weng Luo-Ping Ger Kai-Sheng Hsieh Parents’ Views About the Vaccination Program in Taiwan Pediatrics and Neonatology awareness parents’ attitude vaccine |
| title | Parents’ Views About the Vaccination Program in Taiwan |
| title_full | Parents’ Views About the Vaccination Program in Taiwan |
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| title_short | Parents’ Views About the Vaccination Program in Taiwan |
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