Sponsor
This was work was in part supported by the National Cancer Institute for Transforming Cancer Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior Through Narrative, which was awarded to the University of Southern California (R01CA144052 - Murphy/Baezconde-Garbanati); and to the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center (NCI award # P30CA01408/ 3P30CA014089-39S4 - USC HPV Immunization Collaborative in Clinical and Community Settings (Gruber/Baezconde-Garbanati). Dr. Moran was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health (K01DA037903).
Published In
Patient Education and Counseling
Document Type
Post-Print
Publication Date
8-18-2015
Subjects
Health counseling, Vaccines -- Health aspects, Communication in medicine
Abstract
Objective: A significant number of parents delay or refuse vaccinating their children. Incidental exposure to vaccine information (i.e., scanned information) may be an important contributor to anti-vaccine sentiment. This study examines the association between scanned information, trust in health information sources and vaccine safety concerns among African American, Mexican American, and non-Hispanic White women.
Methods: Women (N=761) in Los Angeles County were sampled via random digit dial and surveyed regarding use of and trust in health information resources and vaccine safety concerns.
Results: Analyses indicate that the sources of information associated with vaccine safety concerns varied by ethnicity. Each ethnic group exhibited different patterns of association between trust in health information resources and vaccine safety concerns.
Conclusions: Information scanning is associated with beliefs about vaccine safety, which may lead parents to refuse or delay vaccinating their children. These relationships vary by ethnicity.
Practice Implications: These findings help inform practitioners and policy makers about communication factors that influence vaccine safety concerns. Knowing these sources of information will equip practitioners to better identify women who may have been exposed to anti-vaccine messages and counter these beliefs with effective, vaccine-promoting messages via the most relevant information sources.
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Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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DOI
10.1016/j.pec.2015.08.016
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/15843
Citation Details
Published as: Moran, M. B., Frank, L. B., Chatterjee, J. S., Murphy, S. T., & Baezconde-Garbanati, L. (2016). Information scanning and vaccine safety concerns among African American, Mexican American, and non-Hispanic White women. Patient Education and Counseling, 99(1), 147-153.
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Patient Education and Counseling. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Patient Education and Counseling, 99(1), 147-153.