The Influence of the COVID-19 Epidemic on Prevention and Vaccination Behaviors Among Chinese Children and Adolescents: Cross-sectional Online Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 epidemic and the related containment strategies may affect parental and pediatric health behaviors.

Objective

The goal of this study was to assess the change in children's and adolescents' prevention and vaccination behaviors amid China's COVID-19 epidemic.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional online survey in mid-March 2020 using proportional quota sampling in Wuhan (the epidemic epicenter) and Shanghai (a nonepicenter). Data were collected from 1655 parents with children aged 3 to 17 years. Children's and adolescents' prevention behaviors and regular vaccination behaviors before and during the epidemic were assessed. Descriptive analyses were used to investigate respondents' characteristics, public health prevention behaviors, unproven prot

SUBMITTER: Hou Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8158530 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature