Caregivers' hesitancy and outright refusal toward children's COVID-19 vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A community-based cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Data from the global South show higher COVID-19-related mortality in children compared to the North. Parents' willingness to vaccinate their children once COVID-19 vaccines are available is poorly documented. We assessed parents' willingness to vaccinate their children in the DRC. A year after the vaccination program started, we conducted a population and online-based cross-sectional study, using the WHO modified Behavior and Social Drivers questionnaire among parents and caregivers in the eastern DRC. We performed Modified Poisson regressions to determine factors associated with vaccine hesitancy and outright refusal, focusing on the intention to vaccinate one's children as our primary outcome. Of the 1709 respondents aged 38 years, 82.56% were unwilling to vaccinate their children, of wh

SUBMITTER: Guillaume AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11562906 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature