Community members trusted by African American parents for vaccine advice
Exposure to pro-vaccination messages from nonmedical peers and others perceived to share a similar value system for society (referred to as worldview outlook) improves vaccination attitudes. Nonetheless, a minority of African American parents have friends and family members who provide them with vac...
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| description | Exposure to pro-vaccination messages from nonmedical peers and others perceived to share a similar value system for society (referred to as worldview outlook) improves vaccination attitudes. Nonetheless, a minority of African American parents have friends and family members who provide them with vaccine advice. The aims of the current study were to identify the presumed worldview outlook of eight types of community figures as perceived by African American parents, and determine parents’ trust in these figures for vaccine advice, and whether trust varied according to the figures’ racial concordance. A cross-sectional survey was administered to 110 African American parents in 2015. Parents perceived the community figures to represent a spectrum of worldview outlooks. Although levels of trust in the community figures differed overall (p < .001), it was high in the school nurse, pediatrician, mother, father, disease survivor, and vaccine scientist. All trusted figures except the father were perceived to hold a communitarian outlook. Parents shown race-concordant figures had higher levels of trust in them than those who were shown race-discordant equivalents (p < .01). These findings suggest that vaccination campaigns geared toward African American parents may be strengthened by including other nonmedical, African American spokespersons who convey their community contributions in messages. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9fb2b32e01e54422a5057b5d59dceab22023-11-08T11:55:19ZengTaylor & Francis GroupHuman Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics2164-55152164-554X2019-08-01157-81715172210.1080/21645515.2019.15815531581553Community members trusted by African American parents for vaccine adviceLinda Y. Fu0Rachel Haimowitz1Danielle Thompson2Children’s National Health SystemChildren’s National Health SystemChildren’s National Health SystemExposure to pro-vaccination messages from nonmedical peers and others perceived to share a similar value system for society (referred to as worldview outlook) improves vaccination attitudes. Nonetheless, a minority of African American parents have friends and family members who provide them with vaccine advice. The aims of the current study were to identify the presumed worldview outlook of eight types of community figures as perceived by African American parents, and determine parents’ trust in these figures for vaccine advice, and whether trust varied according to the figures’ racial concordance. A cross-sectional survey was administered to 110 African American parents in 2015. Parents perceived the community figures to represent a spectrum of worldview outlooks. Although levels of trust in the community figures differed overall (p < .001), it was high in the school nurse, pediatrician, mother, father, disease survivor, and vaccine scientist. All trusted figures except the father were perceived to hold a communitarian outlook. Parents shown race-concordant figures had higher levels of trust in them than those who were shown race-discordant equivalents (p < .01). These findings suggest that vaccination campaigns geared toward African American parents may be strengthened by including other nonmedical, African American spokespersons who convey their community contributions in messages.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1581553african americanssocial valuessocial behaviorpatient compliancevaccinationtrustinterpersonal relationspersuasive communicationhealth communication |
| spellingShingle | Linda Y. Fu Rachel Haimowitz Danielle Thompson Community members trusted by African American parents for vaccine advice Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics african americans social values social behavior patient compliance vaccination trust interpersonal relations persuasive communication health communication |
| title | Community members trusted by African American parents for vaccine advice |
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| title_short | Community members trusted by African American parents for vaccine advice |
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| topic | african americans social values social behavior patient compliance vaccination trust interpersonal relations persuasive communication health communication |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2019.1581553 |
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