Knowledge and risk perception in consent/refusal to Flu vaccine

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  “How does parents knowledge and risk perception vary between those who consented, and those who refused for their child to receive the intra-nasal flu vaccination”.

• IRAS ID

  206923

• Contact name

  Mark Joy

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 2 months, 0 days

• Research summary

  The aim of this research is to gain an understanding of parent's knowledge and decision making processes around the childhood flu vaccination and explore the reasons why parents give and do not give consent for their children to receive the Flu vaccination. To explore this the following question was developed:

  “How do parents knowledge and risk perception vary between those who consented, and those who refused for their child to receive the intra-nasal flu vaccination”.

  This research will be carried out through an online questionnaire. Parents of children in eligible school year groups will be asked to consider the decisions they make to consent or not consent to the Flu vaccination in the winter 2016/17 season. The study will take place within an 8 week window coinciding with the administration of the flu vaccination in the study area.

  As the questionnaire will be completed online there will be no specific site for the study to be conducted although recruitment will be encouraged through participating local schools.

  This research will use an already developed questionnaire designed to explore vaccine decision making.

  This study will mostly be of relevance to health professionals, who with the information obtained from this study will be able to better understand the reasons why parents do and do not consent to vaccination. This may in turn increase uptake of the vaccination among the population, increasing the likelihood of achieving Herd immunity (immunity for those not vaccinated, by vaccinating everyone else) and protecting those unable to be vaccinated.

• REC name

  East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 2

• REC reference

  16/ES/0101

• Date of REC Opinion

  31 Aug 2016

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion