Vaccination information fathers receive during pregnancy and determinants of infant vaccination timeliness.

ABSTRACT: The information fathers receive about infant vaccination may influence their decision to vaccinate. We describe fathers' sources of vaccination information and paternal determinants of timely infant vaccinations. Participants were from a child cohort study in New Zealand. The child cohort was established by enrolling pregnant women and their partners. During pregnancy, fathers (n = 4017) of the cohort children born 2009-2010 described information sources that encouraged or discouraged infant vaccination. The National Immunization Register provided infant vaccination data. Independent associations of the vaccination information received by fathers with the timeliness of their infant's vaccination were determined using multivariable logistic regression. Associations were described using adju

SUBMITTER: Gilchrist CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8903999 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature