Perinatal health care providers' approaches to recommending and providing pertussis vaccination in pregnancy: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2018, the Canadian National Advisory Committee on Immunization and the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada recommended a single dose of tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and reduced acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine in every pregnancy. To understand how perinatal health care providers in Canada are translating recent recommendations for universal antenatal Tdap vaccine into routine clinical practice, we examined health care providers' perceptions of what influences their ability to recommend and provide Tdap vaccine consistently to pregnant women.

Methods

Between June 2018 and July 2019, we conducted semistructured telephone interviews with perinatal health care providers (nurses, midwives, family physicians and obstetricians) from 5

SUBMITTER: Mijovic H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7239636 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature