Parents' and guardians' acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination for children in Ghana: An online survey.

ABSTRACT: Few studies have examined the intentions of parents and guardians to vaccinate their children younger than 18 years against COVID-19 in Ghana. Parents are the decision makers for children younger than 18 years; therefore, we examined parents' and guardians' intentions to accept the COVID-19 vaccines for their children. An online survey was conducted among 415 parents and guardians in Ghana. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25 was used to analyse the data. We found that 73.3% of parents/guardians would allow their children to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The binary logistic regression analysis shows that parents/guardians with Senior High School education, those who believed COVID-19 could not be cured, and those who agreed and those who neither agreed nor disagreed wi

SUBMITTER: Kyei-Arthur F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9423663 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature