Developing a practical tool for measuring parental vaccine hesitancy: A people-centered validation approach in Dutch.

ABSTRACT: Vaccine hesitancy (VH) about routine childhood vaccinations drives falling vaccine uptake rates. This is a major public health challenge and therefore important to monitor uniformly. The challenge is that different methods are used to measure VH and that, in non-English language, there may not be an unequivocal translation of VH terminology. We aimed to develop and validate a method to assess VH in a simple and self-reported manner, with a mixed-methods study using a people-centered approach with a diverse group of parents and illustrated in Dutch. In the quantitative part, parents were asked to rate experienced vaccine hesitancy on a 10-point Likert scale, using five differently worded Dutch translations for VH. We analyzed internal consistency with Cronbach's alpha and correlation with t

SUBMITTER: Bussink-Voorend D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11834527 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature