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Making decisions about immunisation :
What is immunisation?
Why do we immunise?
Making the decision

Information for making decisions :
What type of information do parents want?
Information from the media
Information from health professionals
Information from friends, family & other parents
Other information sources
Messages to health professionals
Messages to other parents

Considering risk? :
Weighing up the risk
Parents' concerns about MMR
Parents' views of the diseases
Parents' attitudes to childhood immunisation

Experiences of immunisation :
Deciding whether to give my child DTaP/IPV/Hib, Men C and pneumococcal vaccinesDTaP/IPV/Hib, BCG vaccine
Deciding to give my child MMR
Deciding not to give my child MMR
Reactions to DTaP/ IPV/ Hib, BCG vaccines
Reactions to the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine

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For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Reactions that their first son had to MMR influenced their decisions for their other children.

Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 01 >> She was anxious that her daughter might be upset having the injection but felt it was important for it to be done.

For DTP/IPV/Hib: Followed the recommendations of health professionals. Reading newspapers and magazine articles, talking to their GP, a private doctor and to friends helped her to make her decision about MMR.

Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 16 >> Possible reactions to the vaccine worried her but her son had been fine after all three sets of immunisations.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Found it useful to talk to their health visitor, other parents who had already had their child immunised and to their extended family. Read information in parenting magazines, a parenting web site and newspaper articles.

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