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  • Risk Perception

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  • Vaccine hesitancy is a significant public health concern impacting childhood immunization rates.
  • Understanding parents' subjective risk judgments is crucial for developing effective communication strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore how vaccine-hesitant parents (VHPs) perceive risks and uncertainties of vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs).
  • To investigate how these perceptions influence decisions regarding childhood vaccinations.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study utilizing semistructured focus group interviews.
  • Involved 42 vaccine-hesitant parents (VHPs).
  • Elicited perceptions of vaccination/nonvaccination risks, information sources, and decision-making processes.

Main Results:

  • VHPs often perceive vaccination risks as greater than VPD risks.
  • Concerns about unreliable, conflicting, or missing information contribute to perceived ambiguity regarding vaccine harms.
  • Parents' decisions are influenced by aversion to perceived risks and ambiguity associated with vaccines.

Conclusions:

  • Vaccine hesitancy may stem from perceived risks and ambiguity surrounding vaccinations.
  • Mitigating hesitancy requires addressing these perceptions by providing evidence-based information on known and unknown vaccine risks.
  • Acknowledging true uncertainties is essential for rebuilding trust and encouraging vaccination.