The predictive role of parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability: A multi-country study on the relationship between parental vaccine hesitancy and financial well-being
Background and purposeRecent new mutations and increases in transmission of COVID-19 among adolescents and children highlight the importance of identifying which factors influence parental decisions regarding vaccinating their children. The current study aims to explore whether child vulnerability a...
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| author | Hamid Sharif Nia Kelly-Ann Allen Gökmen Arslan Gökmen Arslan Harpaljit Kaur Long She Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani Ozkan Gorgulu Erika Sivarajan Froelicher Erika Sivarajan Froelicher |
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| description | Background and purposeRecent new mutations and increases in transmission of COVID-19 among adolescents and children highlight the importance of identifying which factors influence parental decisions regarding vaccinating their children. The current study aims to explore whether child vulnerability and parents' attitudes toward vaccines mediate the association between perceived financial well-being and vaccine hesitancy among parents.MethodA predictive, cross-sectional, multi-country online questionnaire was administered with a convenience sample of 6,073 parents (Australia, 2,734; Iran, 2,447; China, 523; Turkey, 369). Participants completed the Parent Attitude About Child Vaccines (PACV), the Child Vulnerability Scale (CVS), a Financial Well-being (FWB) measure, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy (PVH) questionnaire.ResultsThe current study revealed that perceived financial well-being had significant and negative associations with parents' attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability among the Australian sample. Contrary to the Australian findings, results from Chinese participants indicated that financial well-being had significant and positive predictive effects on parent attitudes toward vaccines, child vulnerability, and parental vaccine hesitancy. The results of the Iranian sample revealed that parents' attitudes toward vaccines and child vulnerability significantly and negatively predicted parental vaccine hesitancy.ConclusionThe current study revealed that a parents' perceived financial well-being had a significant and negative relationship with parental attitudes about vaccines and child vulnerability; however, it did not significantly predict parental vaccine hesitancy among Turkish parents as it did for parents in Australia, Iran, and China. Findings of the study have policy implications for how certain countries may tailor their vaccine-related health messages to parents with low financial wellbeing and parents with vulnerable children. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-feda1655deef46f8a3aa2f06a0f9c1e12023-02-16T11:36:13ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652023-02-011110.3389/fpubh.2023.10851971085197The predictive role of parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability: A multi-country study on the relationship between parental vaccine hesitancy and financial well-beingHamid Sharif Nia0Kelly-Ann Allen1Gökmen Arslan2Gökmen Arslan3Harpaljit Kaur4Long She5Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani6Ozkan Gorgulu7Erika Sivarajan Froelicher8Erika Sivarajan Froelicher9Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research Center, Addiction Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, IranSchool of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaDepartment of Psychological Counselling and Guidance, Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, TürkiyeCentre for Wellbeing Science, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaSchool of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law, Taylor's University, Subang Jaya, MalaysiaFaculty of Business, Design and Arts, Swinburne University of Technology, Kuching, Sarawak, MalaysiaSchool of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IranDepartment of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Kirşehir Ahi Evran University Faculty of Medicine, Kırşehir, TürkiyeDepartment of Physiological Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States0Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United StatesBackground and purposeRecent new mutations and increases in transmission of COVID-19 among adolescents and children highlight the importance of identifying which factors influence parental decisions regarding vaccinating their children. The current study aims to explore whether child vulnerability and parents' attitudes toward vaccines mediate the association between perceived financial well-being and vaccine hesitancy among parents.MethodA predictive, cross-sectional, multi-country online questionnaire was administered with a convenience sample of 6,073 parents (Australia, 2,734; Iran, 2,447; China, 523; Turkey, 369). Participants completed the Parent Attitude About Child Vaccines (PACV), the Child Vulnerability Scale (CVS), a Financial Well-being (FWB) measure, and Parental Vaccine Hesitancy (PVH) questionnaire.ResultsThe current study revealed that perceived financial well-being had significant and negative associations with parents' attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability among the Australian sample. Contrary to the Australian findings, results from Chinese participants indicated that financial well-being had significant and positive predictive effects on parent attitudes toward vaccines, child vulnerability, and parental vaccine hesitancy. The results of the Iranian sample revealed that parents' attitudes toward vaccines and child vulnerability significantly and negatively predicted parental vaccine hesitancy.ConclusionThe current study revealed that a parents' perceived financial well-being had a significant and negative relationship with parental attitudes about vaccines and child vulnerability; however, it did not significantly predict parental vaccine hesitancy among Turkish parents as it did for parents in Australia, Iran, and China. Findings of the study have policy implications for how certain countries may tailor their vaccine-related health messages to parents with low financial wellbeing and parents with vulnerable children.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1085197/fullparental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccineschild vulnerabilityparental vaccine hesitancyfinancial well-beingmediation study |
| spellingShingle | Hamid Sharif Nia Kelly-Ann Allen Gökmen Arslan Gökmen Arslan Harpaljit Kaur Long She Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani Ozkan Gorgulu Erika Sivarajan Froelicher Erika Sivarajan Froelicher The predictive role of parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability: A multi-country study on the relationship between parental vaccine hesitancy and financial well-being Frontiers in Public Health parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines child vulnerability parental vaccine hesitancy financial well-being mediation study |
| title | The predictive role of parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability: A multi-country study on the relationship between parental vaccine hesitancy and financial well-being |
| title_full | The predictive role of parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability: A multi-country study on the relationship between parental vaccine hesitancy and financial well-being |
| title_fullStr | The predictive role of parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability: A multi-country study on the relationship between parental vaccine hesitancy and financial well-being |
| title_full_unstemmed | The predictive role of parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability: A multi-country study on the relationship between parental vaccine hesitancy and financial well-being |
| title_short | The predictive role of parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines and child vulnerability: A multi-country study on the relationship between parental vaccine hesitancy and financial well-being |
| title_sort | predictive role of parental attitudes toward covid 19 vaccines and child vulnerability a multi country study on the relationship between parental vaccine hesitancy and financial well being |
| topic | parental attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines child vulnerability parental vaccine hesitancy financial well-being mediation study |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1085197/full |
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