Face-to-face interventions for informing or educating parents about early childhood vaccination.

CONCLUSIONS: There is low- to moderate-certainty evidence suggesting that face-to-face information or education may improve or slightly improve children's vaccination status, parents' knowledge, and parents' intention to vaccinate.Face-to-face interventions may be more effective in populations where lack of awareness or understanding of vaccination is identified as a barrier (e.g. where people are unaware of new or optional vaccines). The effect of the intervention in a population where concerns about vaccines or vaccine hesitancy is the primary barrier is less clear. Reliable and validated scales for measuring more complex outcomes, such as attitudes or beliefs, are necessary in order to improve comparisons of the effects across studies. PMID: 29736980 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29736980?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - May 8, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kaufman J, Ryan R, Walsh L, Horey D, Leask J, Robinson P, Hill S Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research