Anim-Larbi Matilda, Puplampu Vivian, Maposa Sithokozile, Mahani Akram, Chipanshi Mary
Faculty of Nursing, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada.
PLoS One. 2025 May 22;20(5):e0323186. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0323186. eCollection 2025.
Vaccine-preventable diseases continue to cause morbidity and mortality despite the introduction of childhood immunizations. Recent media reports from Canada and the United States of America (USA) have highlighted a rise in childhood illnesses like measles, which could have been prevented with vaccines. Parents play a pivotal role in ensuring their children receive timely vaccinations. Immunization reminders can help parents who forget or miss vaccination appointments. In the USA, current literature indicates that Black children have lower vaccination rates than other racialized children and vaccine reminders may improve measles vaccine uptake among Black parents. However, there is limited data in Canada on vaccine uptake in children of Black parents, with evidence suggesting vaccine hesitancy among the Black population.
This scoping review aims to map out existing literature on immunization reminder strategies among parents to identify their impact in improving childhood vaccination rates and promoting child health.
The review will include studies conducted in Canada and the United States of America that focus on immunization reminders for parents who have children under six years and published in English between 2015 and 2025.
Database and hand-searching of journals and gray literature will be carried out to retrieve pertinent articles. Studies that meet the inclusion criteria will be eligible for selection. The process of selecting eligible studies will then be summarized on a PRISMA-ScR chart. Collated in data-extraction tables will be authorship information, publication date, methods and findings. The findings, key arguments and themes will be analyzed using a thematic analysis and summarized using a narrative summary.
This review will contribute to the existing knowledge on parental preferences for vaccine reminder strategies and their usefulness in increasing childhood vaccination rates. The findings will inform and improve public health strategies aimed at boosting vaccine uptake among children.
尽管引入了儿童免疫接种，但疫苗可预防疾病仍在导致发病和死亡。加拿大和美利坚合众国（美国）最近的媒体报道突出了麻疹等儿童疾病的增加，而这些疾病本可通过疫苗预防。父母在确保孩子及时接种疫苗方面发挥着关键作用。免疫提醒可以帮助忘记或错过疫苗接种预约的父母。在美国，当前文献表明，黑人儿童的疫苗接种率低于其他种族儿童，疫苗提醒可能会提高黑人父母对麻疹疫苗的接种率。然而，加拿大关于黑人父母子女疫苗接种情况的数据有限，有证据表明黑人人群存在疫苗犹豫现象。
本范围综述旨在梳理有关父母免疫提醒策略的现有文献，以确定其对提高儿童疫苗接种率和促进儿童健康的影响。
该综述将包括在加拿大和美国进行的研究，这些研究聚焦于针对有6岁以下子女的父母的免疫提醒，并于2015年至2025年期间以英文发表。
将对数据库以及通过手工检索期刊和灰色文献来检索相关文章。符合纳入标准的研究将有资格入选。然后将在PRISMA-ScR图表上总结选择合格研究的过程。数据提取表中将整理作者信息、发表日期、方法和研究结果。将使用主题分析法分析研究结果、关键论点和主题，并使用叙述性摘要进行总结。
本综述将有助于丰富关于父母对疫苗提醒策略的偏好及其在提高儿童疫苗接种率方面的有用性的现有知识。研究结果将为旨在提高儿童疫苗接种率的公共卫生策略提供信息并加以改进。
