Role of Information Sources in Vaccination Uptake: Insights From a Cross-Sectional Household Survey in Sierra Leone, 2019.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

There is limited understanding of the potential impact of information sources on vaccination attitudes and behaviors in low-income countries. We examined how exposure to immunization information sources may be associated with vaccination uptake in Sierra Leone.

Methods

In 2019, a household survey was conducted using multistage cluster sampling to randomly select 621 caregivers of children aged 12-23 months in 4 districts in Sierra Leone. We measured exposure to various sources of immunization information and 2 outcomes: (1) vaccination confidence using an aggregate score (from 12 Likert items, informed by previously validated scale) that was dichotomized into a binary variable; (2) uptake of the third dose of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus-hepatitis B-Haemophil

SUBMITTER: Kulkarni S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8885335 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature