A Values-Tailored Web-Based Intervention for New Mothers to Increase Infant Vaccine Uptake: Development and Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Vaccine hesitancy among parents leads to childhood undervaccination and outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease. As the reasons for vaccine hesitancy are diverse, there is often not enough time during regular clinical visits for medical providers to adequately address all the concerns that parents have. Providing individually tailored vaccine information via the internet before a clinical visit may be a good mechanism for effectively allaying parents' vaccination concerns while also being time efficient. Including tailoring based on values is a promising, but untested, approach to message creation. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to describe the process by which we developed a Web-based intervention that is being used in an ongoing randomized controlled trial aimed at improving the

SUBMITTER: Dempsey A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7082734 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature