Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
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Hum Vaccin Immunother · Feb 2013
Does the relative importance of MMR vaccine concerns differ by degree of parental vaccine hesitancy?: An exploratory study.
There has been a rise in the number of vaccine-hesitant parents (VHPs) in the US, many of whom express reservations about administering the MMR vaccine to their children. We studied the relative importance of attitudinal barriers to MMR vaccination among VHPs with differing levels of MMR vaccine-hesitancy. ⋯ In this exploratory study we found that vaccine-specific concerns have varying salience for parents based on their vaccination intention. Thus, future educational programs likely should tailor messages based on the degree of vaccine hesitancy expressed in their target populations in order to improve their overall effectiveness.