Effect of Immunization Education Program on Parental Vaccine Hesitation

Bilecik Seyh Edebali Universitesi

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Nurse's Role

Treatments: Other: immunization education program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06495359

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Details and patient eligibility

About

Not administering vaccines due to vaccine hesitancy is both a potential public health problem and a difficult and risky situation for healthcare professionals. Health sector workers play a very important role in vaccinating families. As public awareness increases, interest in these vaccines is likely to increase. Made works; It shows that healthcare professionals and physicians establishing trust and communicating effectively with vaccine recipients and parents is one of the most effective ways to eliminate vaccine hesitations. They stated that in order for childhood vaccines to be administered at a high rate, effective communication should first be established with parents. This project aimed to determine the effect of the immunization education program on parents' vaccine hesitancy. The project is designed as a randomized controlled study and will consist of experimental and control groups. An education program regarding immunization will be applied to the parents in the experimental group. The originality of this project is the evaluation of the effect of the immunization education program applied to parents whose children are hospitalized on vaccine hesitancy. Although studies on vaccine hesitancy in parents have increased in recent years, most of them consist of descriptive studies aimed at determining the level of vaccine hesitancy and affecting factors. No intervention studies on the effect of immunization education in parents on vaccine hesitancy have been found.

Full description

The aim of the research will be carried out using a parallel group (experiment-control) randomized controlled design, which is one of the experimental methods, to determine the effect of the immunization education program on parents' vaccine hesitancy.

Goals:

• To examine the effect of the immunization education program on parents' vaccine hesitancy,
• To compare the average scores of the vaccine hesitancy scale between the parents in the experimental group and the control group in the project.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having a child between the ages of 0-6,
• admitted to the pediatric ward,
• who have not previously received training on immunization
• Parents who volunteered to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• illiterate
• parents with mental retardation, vision and hearing impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Researchers will administer the immunization education program to parents.

Treatment:

Other: immunization education program

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention