Combating Vaccine Hesitancy: Teaching the Next Generation to Navigate Through the Post Truth Era

Arede, Margarida; Bravo-Araya, Maria; Bouchard, Émilie; Gill, Gurlal Singh; Plajer, Valerie; Shehraj, Adiba; Shuaib, Yassir Adam

doi:10.3389/fpubh.2018.00381

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“…Educating and creating awareness about immunisation and fostering critical thinking on associated risks and benefits could have a tremendous impact on overcoming hesitant behaviour in a population [ 63 ]. Such an approach has proven advantageous in a different context, i.e., reduced use of polluting firecrackers during the Diwali festival [ 64 , 65 ].…”

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Vaccine Hesitancy as a Challenge or Vaccine Confidence as an Opportunity for Childhood Immunisation in India

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Vaccines have contributed substantially to decreasing the morbidity and mortality rates of many infectious diseases worldwide. Despite this achievement, an increasing number of parents have adopted hesitant behaviours towards vaccines, delaying or even refusing their administration to children. This has implications not only on individuals but also society in the form of outbreaks for e.g. measles, chicken pox, hepatitis A, etc. A review of the literature was conducted to identify the determinants of vaccine hesitancy (VH) as well as vaccine confidence and link them to challenges and opportunities associated with vaccination in India, safety concerns, doubts about the need for vaccines against uncommon diseases and suspicions towards new vaccines were identified as major vaccine-specific factors of VH. Lack of awareness and limited access to vaccination sites were often reported by hesitant parents. Lastly, socio-economic level, educational level and cultural specificities were contextual factors of VH in India. Controversies and rumours around some vaccines (e.g., human papillomavirus) have profoundly impacted the perception of the risks and benefits of vaccination. Challenges posed by traditions and cultural behaviours, geographical specificities, socio-demographic disparities, the healthcare system and vaccine-specific features are highlighted, and opportunities to improve confidence are identified. To overcome VH and promote vaccination, emphasis should be on improving communication, educating the new generation and creating awareness among the society. Tailoring immunisation programmes as per the needs of specific geographical areas or communities is also important to improve vaccine confidence. Fig. 1 Plain language summary

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Vaccine Hesitancy as a Challenge or Vaccine Confidence as an Opportunity for Childhood Immunisation in India

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“…An institutional based cross sectional study was conducted using complete enumeration method with self-administered q u e s t i o n n a i r e . Q u e s t i o n n a i r e w a s p r e p a r e d b y conceptualizing the different similar international studies, concept and components in Nepalese context and National [8][9][10][11] Immunization Guidelines of Nepal. The questionnaire was pretested to ensure the validity of the instruments and used st th among the medical students of 1 to 4 year, at Universal College of Medical Sciences.…”

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Immunization among Medical Students

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INTRODUCTION: Prevention of disease is the necessity of today's life. Immunization is the most important component of preventive medicine. Knowledge and attitude of health professionals have significant role in increasing the acceptance of immunization. This study is aimed to determine the association between knowledge and attitude towards immunization and its practice among medical students and emphasis on the need of immunization education intervention among medical students. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Institutional based cross-sectional study among 397 medical students studying Bachelor in Medicine and Bachelor in Surgery (MBBS) was conducted in Universal College of Medical Sciences, Bhairahawa, Nepal. Purposively 1st to 4th year medical students were selected. RESULTS: Among 397 students, 59% had good knowledge regarding immunization, 63% had positive attitude and 47% had applied the knowledge and attitude in practice. Level of knowledge, attitude as well as practice regarding immunization was found statistically significant among medical students with their year of study. The analysis found that level of knowledge was more with 4th year students 89.47±7.92 and least with 1st year students 62.82±13.01. Third year and 4th year students had good attitude with mean score of 85.66±9.13 and 85.49 ± 9.51 respectively. Similarly, practice level was found more among 3rd and 4th year student, while least among 1st year students 39.89±21.16. There is statistically weekly positive correlation between knowledge, attitude and practice in overall among the medical students. CONCLUSION: The acceptance of immunization can be increased by increasing the level of knowledge and attitude regarding immunization thus providing a foundation to include a comprehensive immunization education to medical students.

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“…In this sense, vaccine hesitancy and resistance might also be linked to the more general development of a populist post-truth society (Kakutani, 2018). Scientific facts have become the object of chronic debate and contestation and social media has been important in this, offering an opportunity to spread potentially false interpretations or information and to gain and unite a significant audience (Arede et al, 2019). There is certainly evidence that vaccine-hesitant parents utilise online information more so than those parents who have had their children vaccinated (Kata, 2012).…”

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