ABSTRACT
CONCLUSIONS:
It was determined that the reasons for this were negative attitudes towards vaccines, religious beliefs, lack of knowledge about vaccines and diseases. It may be suggested that those working in the field of child health and development should elaborate on the practices and research on the findings.
RESULTS:
Socio-demographic data of 276 participants were evaluated. 87% of the participants are women, 22% are in the 20-30 age group and 55% are in the 31-40 age group, 32.6% have 2 children, 21% have 3 children, 43.5% are primary education. She was a graduate 25.4% of the mothers had attended vaccine information seminars. Participants were found to have a high vaccine hesitation level. There was no significant difference in vaccine hesitation levels of the participants according to age, number of children, education level and seminar status(p> 0.05). Qualititative research findings that vaccines are unfavorable to religion (n: 16, 64%), source and content of disease are harmful(n: 18, 72%), vaccines are useless(n: 16, 64%), insufficient information is given about vaccines(n: 14, 56%), that social media are ineffective in their decisions(n: 17, 68%), infectious diseases are not dangerous(n: 13, 52%), they are hesitant about vaccination(n: 18, 72%).
MATERIALS and METHODS:
The research designed mixed pattern as research methods in 2020. Family health centers in 4 districts in Istanbul. Population of the study, 276 parents are living Istanbul. Sampling criteria are having children aged 5 years or younger. The Vaccine Hesitation Scale was used to measure the level of vaccicine hesitation level. For qualitative research, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted face-to-face with 25 parents refused vaccine application. Content analysis method was used to evaluate qualitative data. Quantitative data were analyzed SPSS program.
INTRODUCTION:
It was aimed to determine the parents' level of hesitation about childhood vaccinations and the individual concerns and reasons underlying vaccination refusal.