The Relationship Between Parent Attitudes About Childhood Vaccines Survey Scores and Future Child Immunization Status

Abstract

Parental acceptance of childhood vaccines is eroding. Nonmedical exemption rates continue to increase annually,¹ and the proportion of parents who reported that they have no concerns about childhood vaccines remains less than 25%.^2,3 Consequently, interest in understanding the barriers to immunization acceptance among vaccine-hesitant parents (VHPs) is growing, as is the development and testing of interventions that address these barriers.