The relationship between parent attitudes about childhood vaccines survey scores and future child immunization status: a validation study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Acceptance of childhood vaccinations is waning, amplifying interest in developing and testing interventions that address parental barriers to immunization acceptance.

Objective

To determine the predictive validity and test-retest reliability of the Parent Attitudes About Childhood Vaccines survey (PACV), a recently developed measure of vaccine hesitancy.

Design, setting, and participants

Prospective cohort of English-speaking parents of children aged 2 months and born from July 10 through December 10, 2010, who belonged to an integrated health care delivery system based in Seattle and who returned a completed baseline PACV. Parents who completed a follow-up survey 8 weeks later were included in the reliability analysis. Parents who remained continuous membe

SUBMITTER: Opel DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4957941 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature