Plans to Vaccinate Children for Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Survey of United States Parents

Chloe A Teasdale; Luisa N Borrell; Spencer Kimball; Michael L Rinke; Madhura Rane; Sasha A Fleary; Denis Nash

doi:10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.07.021

Plans to Vaccinate Children for Coronavirus Disease 2019: A Survey of United States Parents

J Pediatr. 2021 Oct:237:292-297. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2021.07.021. Epub 2021 Jul 18.

Authors

Chloe A Teasdale¹, Luisa N Borrell², Spencer Kimball³, Michael L Rinke⁴, Madhura Rane⁵, Sasha A Fleary⁶, Denis Nash⁷

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY; Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY. Electronic address: chloe.teasdale@sph.cuny.edu.
² Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY.
³ Emerson College, Boston, MA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
⁵ Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY.
⁶ Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY; Department of Community Health and Social Sciences, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY; Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, NY.

Abstract

In a national survey of 2074 US parents of children ≤12 years of age conducted in March 2021, 49.4% reported plans to vaccinate their child for coronavirus disease 2019 when available. Lower income and less education were associated with greater parental vaccine hesitancy/resistance; safety and lack of need were primary reasons for vaccine hesitancy/resistance.

MeSH terms

Adult
COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / prevention & control*
COVID-19 Vaccines / immunology*
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Infant
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Parents / psychology
SARS-CoV-2
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States / epidemiology
Vaccination / trends*
Young Adult

Substances

COVID-19 Vaccines