Vaccine Hesitancy and Concerns About Vaccine Safety and Effectiveness in Shanghai, China.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Rapidly urbanizing communities in middle-income countries could be sources of vaccine hesitancy, and may create hot spots of low vaccination coverage. This study characterizes vaccine hesitancy in Shanghai and identifies disparities in vaccine safety and efficacy concerns by residency status-a marker for recent migration into the city.

Methods

Parents of children aged ≤18 years from immunization clinics in Shanghai were enrolled in summer 2019, with the data analyzed during winter 2019-2020. The paper questionnaire used the Parental Attitudes towards Childhood Vaccines scale, which included questions about vaccine safety and efficacy concerns. The primary independent variable was residency-whether an individual was a Shanghai local or a recent migrant (i.e., non

SUBMITTER: Wagner AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7877188 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature