Attitudinal and demographic predictors of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine acceptance: development and validation of an evidence-based measurement instrument.

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Parents' attitudes toward MMR vaccine and measles, mumps and rubella infections relate to their child's MMR status, therefore improving these attitudes is central to improving current suboptimal MMR uptake. However, no study has yet combined evidence-based, comprehensive and psychometrically validated assessment of these attitudes with reliable objective MMR status data, in order to identify through multivariate analyses the strongest attitudinal predictors of MMR u...

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Authors: Brown, K; Shanley, R; Cowley, N; van Wijgerden, J; Toff, P

• Journal: Vaccine
• Volume: 29
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 1700-1709
• Publication date: 2011-02-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2010.12.030
• EISSN: 1873-2518
• ISSN: 0264-410X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Parents; Vaccination; Adolescent; Multivariate Analysis; Evidence-Based Medicine; Young Adult; London; Child, Preschool; Child; Measles; Questionnaires; Humans; England; Adult; Rubella; Cross-Sectional Studies; Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine; Demography; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Mumps; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Reproducibility of Results