Parent's attitude to vaccinations

Świątoniowska Natalia, Tylak Paulina, Sarzyńska Kathie, Rozensztrauch Anna. Parent's attitude to vaccinations. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(1):61-68. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2535948 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6449 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 23.12.2018. Revised: 07.01.2019. Accepted: 09.01.2019. Parent's attitude to vaccinations Natalia Świątoniowska1, Paulina Tylak2, Kathie Sarzyńska2, Anna Rozensztrauch3 1Department of Clinical Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland 2Peadiatric Nursing Student Association, Faculty of Health Science, Wroclaw Medical University 3Department of Peadiatric, Division of Neonatology, Faculty of Health Science, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland Summary Introduction. Vaccination is an important primary prevention of infectious diseases. Their main task is to prevent infectious diseases and their complications. High excretion causes the development of collective resistance, extremely important in reducing the risk of disease of the entire population. According to the WHO, vaccinations save around 2.5 million people a year. The negative perception of vaccination by parents can be an important barrier during making vaccination decisions. The aim of the study was to assess the parents' relation to immunization. Material and methods. 98 people were examined: 91 women and 7 men from July to October 2018 using the CAWI method. The own questionnaire consisted of two parts - sociodemographic and parental relation to protective vaccinations. Results. In the comparative analysis people living in the city significantly more often thought about the legitimacy of vaccinations adopted in childhood compared to people living in rural areas (59.7% vs. 40.3%, p=0.021), while people with secondary education level significantly less often compared to people with higher and professional education level (63.4% vs. 37% vs. 33.3%, p=0.022). Parents with one child were less likely to recall vaccinations for reasons other than illness or allergy compared to parents of two or three / four children (14.3% vs. 23.9% vs. 16.7%, p=0.012, respectively). Parents with two children were more often convinced that the diseases they prevent vaccination are not serious compared to the parents of one or three / four children (respectively 15.2% vs. 9.5% vs. 0, p=0.020). Gender, age, occupational activity and occupation did not differentiate the group's opinion in a statistically significant manner (p> 0.05). Conclusions. Secondary education, living in the countryside and having one child had positive impact on the parents' opinion on immunization of children. The parents' attitude did not depend on age, sex, professional activity and occupation. Key words: parents' attitude, opinion, vaccination