Factors Affecting Parents’ Influenza Vaccination Intentions for Their Adolescent Children
10.21896/jkmch.2025.29.1.8
- Author:
Jin Ju BYUN
1
;
Yeo Jin IM
Author Information
1. Department of Nursing, Graduate School, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
- Publication Type:Original Article
- From:
Journal of Korean Maternal and Child Health
2025;29(1):8-20
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Purpose:Adolescence involves parental health management, with parents or guardians often making decisions regarding vaccination. This study assessed how parents’ knowledge, attitudes, and health beliefs about influenza vaccination influenced their intentions to vaccinate their adolescent children.
Methods:This descriptive survey was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kyung Hee University for use between December 1 and 31, 2022. Parents of adolescents aged 13–19 years were surveyed face-to-face and online using a modified tool to evaluate their vaccination intentions, knowledge, attitudes, and health beliefs regarding their children’s influenza vaccination. The analysis included 149 responses and involved methods such as calculating means, standard deviations, t-tests, analyses of variance, Scheffe tests, correlations, and hierarchical regressions.
Results:On a 7-point scale, the mean score for parental intention to vaccinate their adolescents was 4.99±1.24. Hierarchical regression analysis revealed that positive attitudes towards influenza vaccination, television and radio information, and perceived benefits influenced children’s vaccination intentions, with positive parental attitudes being the most significant factor. The independent variables accounted for 66.7% of the variance in vaccination intentions.
Conclusion:To improve parental intentions to vaccinate adolescent children against influenza, promoting vaccination benefits and safety through the media is crucial to enhance favorable attitudes. Initiatives that strengthen positive parental attitudes towards influenza vaccination and increase awareness of its benefits can effectively boost vaccination intentions.
