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About Three Million Children Head To School Unvaccinated.(Brief Article)
2001 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) is mounting a campaign to protect the estimated three million children heading back to school this year who are at risk of chickenpox.
These children, ages six to 12, who have neither been vaccinated against the virus nor have yet contracted the disease, are at risk of more serious complications than younger children. This campaign is in response to a NAPNAP-sponsored survey, released August 6, 2001, showing that a significant number of parents are not only unaware of the potentially serious complications of chickenpox - particularly for older children - but also are uninformed about the benefits of vaccination.
The survey, conducted by Yankelovich Partners, Inc., examined the knowledge of 500 parents of six to 12 year olds about chickenpox. Top-line findings showed:
* Half of parents said they prefer pox to shot - 50% of parents whose kids are at risk for chickenpox say they'd rather their child have the disease than the vaccine - a statistic in stark contrast with last year's NAPNAP survey, where 73% of children themselves said that they would rather have the vaccine than chickenpox.
* One in four parents are reluctant to vaccinate because they do not feel that vaccinating children against chickenpox is important.
* Forty-two percent of parents did not know that a chickenpox vaccine is available.
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