Effect of Immunization Education Program on Parental Vaccine Hesitation

Not administering vaccines due to vaccine hesitancy is both a potential public health problem and a difficult and risky situation for healthcare professionals. Health sector workers play a very important role in vaccinating families. As public awareness increases, interest in these vaccines is likely to increase. Made works; It shows that healthcare professionals and physicians establishing trust and communicating effectively with vaccine recipients and parents is one of the most effective ways to eliminate vaccine hesitations. They stated that in order for childhood vaccines to be administered at a high rate, effective communication should first be established with parents. This project aimed to determine the effect of the immunization education program on parents' vaccine hesitancy. The project is designed as a randomized controlled study and will consist of experimental and control groups. An education program regarding immunization will be applied to the parents in the experimental group. The originality of this project is the evaluation of the effect of the immunization education program applied to parents whose children are hospitalized on vaccine hesitancy. Although studies on vaccine hesitancy in parents have increased in recent years, most of them consist of descriptive studies aimed at determining the level of vaccine hesitancy and affecting factors. No intervention studies on the effect of immunization education in parents on vaccine hesitancy have been found.

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AKDENİZ KUDUBEŞ, PHD  ·  5432715190  ·  asli.akdeniz@bilecik.edu.tr

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