Vaccine Information Sources and Parental Trust in Their Child's Health Care Provider.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parental trust in their child's health care provider and the number and type of vaccine information sources are important dimensions of vaccine hesitancy and may suggest intervention components for future research.

Method

We conducted secondary analysis of survey data from mothers of healthy newborns in Washington State, and examined the association between parental trust in their child's health care provider and vaccine information sources.

Results

We found that mothers with less trust in their child's health care provider used more sources, more informal sources, and were less likely to consider their child's pediatrician their main source of vaccine information compared with more trusting mothers. However, less trusting mothers did not report more effort

SUBMITTER: Eller NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7872219 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature