How parents are informed about children´s vaccination benefits

ABSTRACT How parents are informed about children?s vaccination benefits Inoculation is a very effective protection of children and adults against not only diseases but their consequences as well. In spite of that it is often discussed and it has a number of opponents. The bachelor thesis ,,How parents are informed about children?s vaccination benefits?? consists of a theoretical and practical sections. The theoretical one includes basic information about vaccination. There you can find information on composition of vaccination substances and indications to inoculate, on possible undesirable post-vaccination reactions, on counter-indications as well as on vaccination substances used in the Czech Republic within the framework of compulsory and optional vaccination. The practical part includes results achieved. A quantitative research strategy was used for processing the data. The questioning method ? questionnaires ? was used for data collection. The questionnaire was intended for parents with children under 15 years. The research was carried out in nine general practitioners? surgeries for children and young people in Mladá Boleslav. 150 questionnaires were distributed, 140 were returned. 15 of them could not be used due to incorrect or incomplete completion. So the rate of return was 83.3%. 125 of them were used for the research. The investigation took place in the spring of 2011. The objective of the thesis was to map how parents were informed about compulsory children?s vaccination at the age of 0 to 15 years old in Mladá Boleslav. Moreover, the objective also was to confirm or disconfirm four hypotheses. H1 hypothesis supposed that parent?s education influenced their awareness. It was confirmed. H2 hypothesis expected that parents received most information about vaccination from a paediatrician. That hypothesis was also confirmed on the basis of the results found. H3 hypothesis said that parents would welcome extension of the existing vaccination calendar, especially TB inoculation should be added. That hypothesis was confirmed partially. H4 hypothesis suggested that parents with only one child were less informed. The results did not confirm it. I would like my thesis to be a clear information source for parents and to be a stimulus for their increased interest in those problems