Parental preferences for a mandatory vaccination scheme in England: A discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mandatory vaccination has been mooted to combat falling childhood vaccine uptake rates in England. This study investigated parental preferences for a mandatory vaccination scheme.

Methods

Discrete choice experiment. Six attributes were investigated: vaccine, child age group, incentive, penalty, ability to opt out, and compensation scheme. Mixed effects conditional logit regression models were used to investigate parental preferences and relative importance of attributes.

Findings

Participants were 1,001 parents of children aged 5 years and under in England (53% female; mean age=33·6 years, SD=7·1; 84% white). Parental preferences were mostly based on incentives (30·7% relative importance; 80·9% [95% confidence interval 76·3-85·0%] preference for parent and

SUBMITTER: Smith LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9097614 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature