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Editor, Senior Moderator
Expert Rev Vaccines. 2018 Mar 23. doi: 10.1080/14760584.2018.1456921. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Educating children and adolescents about vaccines: A review of current literature.[/h] Maisonneuve AR[SUP]1[/SUP], Wilson K[SUP]2[/SUP], Witteman H[SUP]3[/SUP], Brehaut J[SUP]4[/SUP], Dub? ?[SUP]5[/SUP].
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[h=3]Abstract[/h] Until recently, research on vaccine hesitancy has focused primarily on parent populations. Although adolescent knowledge and views are gaining momentum within the literature, particularly as they pertain to the Human Papillomavirus and influenza, children remain a virtually unstudied population with regards to vaccine hesitancy. Areas Covered: This review focuses on the lack of literature in this area and argues for more vaccine hesitancy research involving child and adolescent populations. It also outlines special issues to consider when framing health promotion messages for children and adolescents. Finally, we explore the use of new and existing technologies as delivery mechanisms for education on vaccines and immunizations in populations of children and adolescents. Expert Commentary: Children ongoing cognitive development and experiences with vaccines (e.g. pain or education) have the potential to create future attitudes towards vaccines. This can influence future vaccine behaviour, including their participation in decision-making around adolescent vaccines, their decisions to vaccinate themselves when they are adults and their decisions to vaccinate their own children. Interventions aimed at children, such as education, can create positive attitudes towards vaccines. These can also potentially influence their parent's attitudes towards vaccine as the children convey this knowledge to them. Both of these impacts require further study.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] attitudes; behaviors; children; knowledge; technology; vaccines
PMID: 29569498 DOI: 10.1080/14760584.2018.1456921
[h=1]Educating children and adolescents about vaccines: A review of current literature.[/h] Maisonneuve AR[SUP]1[/SUP], Wilson K[SUP]2[/SUP], Witteman H[SUP]3[/SUP], Brehaut J[SUP]4[/SUP], Dub? ?[SUP]5[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h]
[h=3]Abstract[/h] Until recently, research on vaccine hesitancy has focused primarily on parent populations. Although adolescent knowledge and views are gaining momentum within the literature, particularly as they pertain to the Human Papillomavirus and influenza, children remain a virtually unstudied population with regards to vaccine hesitancy. Areas Covered: This review focuses on the lack of literature in this area and argues for more vaccine hesitancy research involving child and adolescent populations. It also outlines special issues to consider when framing health promotion messages for children and adolescents. Finally, we explore the use of new and existing technologies as delivery mechanisms for education on vaccines and immunizations in populations of children and adolescents. Expert Commentary: Children ongoing cognitive development and experiences with vaccines (e.g. pain or education) have the potential to create future attitudes towards vaccines. This can influence future vaccine behaviour, including their participation in decision-making around adolescent vaccines, their decisions to vaccinate themselves when they are adults and their decisions to vaccinate their own children. Interventions aimed at children, such as education, can create positive attitudes towards vaccines. These can also potentially influence their parent's attitudes towards vaccine as the children convey this knowledge to them. Both of these impacts require further study.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] attitudes; behaviors; children; knowledge; technology; vaccines
PMID: 29569498 DOI: 10.1080/14760584.2018.1456921