Willingness of Brazilian caregivers in having their children and adolescents vaccinated against Covid-19.

Autor: Fernandes Nehab M; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil. Electronic address: rcio.nehab@iff.fiocruz.br., Gonçalves Camacho K; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil., Teixeira Reis A; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil. Electronic address: adriana.reis@iff.fiocruz.br., Junqueira-Marinho MF; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil., Marques Abramov D; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil. Electronic address: dimitri.abramov@iff.fiocruz.br., Almeida de Azevedo ZM; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil., Dos Santos Salú M; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil., Farias Meira de Vasconcelos Z; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil. Electronic address: zilton.vasconcelos@iff.fiocruz.br., Dos Santos Gomes Junior SC; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil., Carvalho da Silva Filho O; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil., Candida de Oliveira Salvador PT; School of Health at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Avenue Senador Salgado Filho, s/n - Lagoa Nova, Natal, RN zip code: 59078-970, Brazil., Andrade Alves KY; School of Health at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Avenue Senador Salgado Filho, s/n - Lagoa Nova, Natal, RN zip code: 59078-970, Brazil., Silva de Carvalho KR; Secretary of State for Public Health of Rio Grande do Norte, Avenue Deodoro da Fonseca, 730 - Cidade Alta, Natal, RN 59025-600, Brazil., Campelo Batalha Cox Moore D; National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira, FIOCRUZ, Avenue Rui Barbosa, 716, Flamengo, Rio de Janeio, RJ zip code 22250-020, Brazil; Federal Fluminense University, Faculty of Medicine, Internal Medicine Department, Brazil. Electronic address: daniella.moore@iff.fiocruz.br.
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Zdroj: Vaccine [Vaccine] 2023 Jan 16; Vol. 41 (3), pp. 735-743. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Dec 09.
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.11.077
Abstrakt: Background: The vaccination of children and adolescents for the prevention of Covid-19 is important to:decrease in deaths and hospitalizations, prevent multisystem inflammatory syndrome, avoid long-term complications and decrease the suspension of on-site classes. Despite of these benefits, some studies have shown that some caregivers are still hesitancy.
Methods: This is a voluntary and anonymous online survey conducted from November 17 to December 14, 2021, in Brazil, through a free-of-charge platform with a link provided on social networks. A bivariate analysis was conducted with the independent variables, with vaccine hesitancy as the outcome variable, and a multivariate logistic model was used to calculated adjusted odds ratios.
Results: The sample included 15,297 respondents. Approximately 13.3 % (2,028) of the caregivers were hesitant to vaccinate their children and adolescents against Covid-19 in at least one age group. The vaccination hesitanty rate of caregivers of children aged 0-4 years, 5-11 years and adolescents were 16 %, 13 %, 15 %, respectively. The principal factors associated with vaccine hesitancy were the following: belief that they need to wait longer, belief that children that had natural infection doesn't need to vaccinate and belief that vaccine has long term adverse effects.
Interpretation: The present study showed that the willingness of caregivers to have their children and adolescents vaccinated in Brazil is high compared to data from adult and pediatric international studies. This study provides a profile of the hesitant caregivers considering their perspectives and beliefs regarding vaccines that can help the elaboration of strategies to increase vaccine adherence.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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