Parents' or legal guardians' beliefs and attitudes about childhood vaccination: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

to map scientific evidence about perceptions, beliefs, knowledge and attitudes of parents or legal guardians of children under 5 years of age regarding routine childhood vaccination.

Methods

a scoping review, conducted in accordance with the JBI framework. The searches were carried out in the PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, Scopus and LILACS databases. A total of 5,535 studies were returned and 77 were selected, which met the inclusion criteria.

Results

perceptions related to interaction with healthcare professionals and services, with family organization and structure, with social interaction and public policies, cultural, religious and personal beliefs, knowledge about vaccination schedule, vaccination and immunization process and sources of information ar

SUBMITTER: Lima MMO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11382679 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature