Data for: Parent and staff attitudes towards in-hospital opportunistic vaccination

Recent trends of ‘vaccine hesitancy’ have resulted in calls for public health campaigns to improve immunisation uptake to World Health Organisation targets. One potential strategy to improve uptake is to offer opportunistic vaccination to those hospital in-patients who have missed them. We aimed to evaluate parental and staff attitudes about introducing such a service for hospitalised children.

We developed and distributed a questionnaire for parents/guardians of paediatric inpatients aged five years and under, and a questionnaire for frontline paediatric staff (including medical, nursing and allied health professionals). Vaccination rates were assessed through discussion with parents and reviewing the personal child health record.

Please see Appendix 1 of this publication for full details of survey questions.

近期‘疫苗接种犹豫’的趋势引发了公众健康运动，旨在提高疫苗接种率，以期达到世界卫生组织设定的目标。为改善疫苗接种率，一种潜在策略是为那些遗漏疫苗接种的住院病人提供有针对性的疫苗接种。本研究旨在评估家长及医护人员对于为住院儿童引入此类服务的态度。我们为五岁及以下儿童的父母/监护人以及一线儿科医护人员（包括医疗、护理及相关健康专业人士）开发了并分发了一份问卷。通过与家长讨论以及查阅个人儿童健康记录来评估疫苗接种率。请参阅本出版物附录1，以获取调查问题的详细信息。