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Abstract
The paper presents the first results from the European project VACSATC which aimed
to track parental attitudes on vaccinations across several European countries. We
compared five cross-sectional surveys of parents with children less than 3 years of
age in England, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden carried out during 2008-2009. Data
were collected from 6611 respondents. Two countries used face-to face interviews,
one used telephone interviews, and two other countries used mail-in questionnaires.
In all countries health professionals were indicated as the most important and trusted
source of information on vaccination. The study results also show that parental attitudes
on vaccinations in the childhood vaccination programs are generally positive. However,
there were differences in attitudes on vaccination between the five countries, possibly
reflecting different methods of sampling the respondents, context-specific differences
(e.g. level of activity of governmental agencies), but also individual-level parental
variation in demographic and socioeconomic status variables.
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