Sarıçam District Health Department, Adana, Türkiye.
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye.
PeerJ. 2024 May 20;12:e17409. doi: 10.7717/peerj.17409. eCollection 2024.
The global health landscape is increasingly challenged by the rejection of childhood vaccines. This study investigates vaccination reservations and refusal among pregnant women.
A cross-sectional study was conducted in Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye, spanning January to March 2019, entailing face to face interviews with 938 pregnant women. The questionnaire collected sociodemographic data and probed vaccination attitudes. The decision to vaccinate the baby was treated as the dependent variable, analyzed alongside sociodemographic factors and other variables. Data underwent evaluation descriptive analysis, the Chi-square test, and binary logistic regression.
Participants had a mean age of 27.6 years. Among them 20 (2.1%) expressed intent to either abstain from or partially vaccinate their babies, with 70% citing apprehensions regarding potential vaccine-related harm. Statistical analysis unveiled that higher economic income, elevated parental education level, fewer than two children, reliance on the Internet for vaccination information, and a lack of trust in physicians significantly correlated with vaccine refusal among pregnant women ( < 0.05).
The study concludes that dissemination of vaccination information by the healthcare professionals, complemented by the enactment of pro-vaccine internet policies holds promise in shaping vaccination behavior.
全球健康领域正日益受到儿童疫苗接种被拒的挑战。本研究调查了孕妇的疫苗接种保留和拒绝情况。
2019 年 1 月至 3 月，在土耳其卡赫拉曼马拉什进行了一项横断面研究，对 938 名孕妇进行了面对面访谈。问卷收集了社会人口统计学数据，并探讨了疫苗接种态度。将婴儿接种疫苗的决定视为因变量，与社会人口统计学因素和其他变量一起进行分析。对数据进行评估，包括描述性分析、卡方检验和二元逻辑回归。
参与者的平均年龄为 27.6 岁。其中 20 人（2.1%）表示有意拒绝或部分接种婴儿疫苗，其中 70%的人表示担心潜在的疫苗相关伤害。统计分析显示，较高的经济收入、较高的父母教育水平、子女少于两个、依赖互联网获取疫苗接种信息以及对医生的不信任与孕妇拒绝接种疫苗显著相关（<0.05）。
研究得出结论，医疗保健专业人员传播疫苗接种信息，并辅以制定支持疫苗接种的互联网政策，有望影响疫苗接种行为。
