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Parents Who Miss Work To Care For Sick Child Are More Accepting Of Flu Vaccine.(Brief Article)
2001 MAY 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Parents who miss work to care for their sick children or those whose children miss school for respiratory illnesses tend to be more accepting of having their children vaccinated against influenza, according to a survey published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences
M.D. Nettleman and colleagues at Virginia Commonwealth University surveyed parents of children attending three elementary schools about absenteeism from work and school, their children's illnesses, and their willingness to accept flu vaccine for their children.
Of the 954 evaluable surveys, 13% of respondents said they would not consider vaccination for their child. Among parents whose children had missed school due to a non-asthma respiratory illness, 33% said they would definitely consider vaccination, compared with 24% of parents whose children had not missed school, said Nettleman and team.
Willingness to vaccinate became more likely with the greater number of days missed from school and was more likely among parents who had missed work to care for a sick child.
Thirty-five percent of parents who had missed work versus 24% of those who did not work expressed acceptance of the flu vaccine for their child ("School absenteeism, parental work loss, and acceptance of childhood influenza vaccination," ...
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