Addressing personal parental values in decisions about childhood vaccination: Measure development.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Evidence-based strategies to address vaccine hesitancy are lacking. Personal values are a measurable psychological construct that could be used to deliver personalized messages to influence vaccine hesitancy and behavior. Our objectives were to develop a valid, reliable self-report survey instrument to measure vaccine values based on the Schwartz theory of basic human values, and to test the hypothesis that vaccine values are distinct from vaccine attitudes and are related to vaccine hesitancy and behavior.

Methods

Parental Vaccine Values (PVV) scale items were generated using formative qualitative research and expert input, yielding 24 items for testing. 295 parents of children aged 14-30 months completed a self-report survey with measures of Schwartz's global val

SUBMITTER: Cataldi JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6752201 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature