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Better Polio Vaccine Education Could Make Parents Partners In Choice.(Brief Article)
2001 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
by N.R. Saltmarsh, staff medical writer - Most parents want to have a hand in vaccine decision making, but when offered several choices in a study on polio vaccines options, a substantial number could not choose.
Better education about the different options could have made parents feel more empowered to choose whether their children should receive oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV), inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), or a sequential IPV/OPV regimen, said A. Epee-Bounya and colleagues at the Children's National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
"Because of the risk of vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis with OPV, the use of IPV has become the accepted option," wrote Epee-Bounya and coauthors, in Clinical Pediatrics. Nevertheless, researchers let 146 parents of children younger than 18 months make the choice, after giving them information about the risks and benefits of the three immunization options.
Eighty-eight percent of parents returned surveys about vaccine preferences. They were an average of 22 years old with 12 years of education, reported Epee-Bounya and colleagues. Although 58% said that they believed the provider and parent should work together to make decisions about vaccines, 41% were unable to make the decision when given a choice.
One-quarter chose OPV, 13% IPV, and 21% the IPV/OPV schedule, the authors noted. Although there was no ...
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