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.近年来，“疫苗犹豫”（vaccine hesitancy）的蔓延态势促使各方呼吁开展公共卫生宣传活动，以将疫苗接种率提升至世界卫生组织（World Health Organisation）设定的目标。提升疫苗接种率的一项潜在策略，是为漏种疫苗的住院患者提供机会性接种服务。本研究旨在评估家长与医护人员对为住院儿童推出此类接种服务的态度。 我们针对5岁及以下儿科住院患者的家长或监护人研发并发放了调查问卷，同时为儿科一线医护人员（涵盖医师、护士及辅助医疗专业人员）设计并发放了另一套问卷。研究人员通过与家长沟通及查阅儿童个人健康档案的方式，评估了研究对象的疫苗接种率。 有关调查问卷题目的完整详情，请参阅本出版物的附录1。