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• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 28 >> Believed the evidence wasn't strong enough to prove a causal link between MMR and autism.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to friends, her father who is a doctor, family friends who were doctors, and alternative practitioners. Gathered some information from the media. Talked to their GP about her daughter's egg allergy.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 33 >> She had concerns about autism but after reading an independent research review she decided that MMR was the right decision for her son.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: She read an independent literature review published in a Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin on studies examining the link between autism and MMR, which helped her to make a decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 38 >> Learning that MMR had been used in other countries for many years eased her concerns about there being a link between autism and MMR.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed the recommendations of the health professionals. MMR decisions: Talked to their health visitor and a paediatrician and searched for information using the Internet, talked to friends in the USA, read articles in the media but it was talking to a health professional at Great Ormond Street that helped her to make her decision for both her children.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 09 >> She had taught children with autism and believed that the MMR vaccine had nothing to do with autism.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Took advice from their GP. Talked to friends and her grandmother who could remember childhood illnesses before immunisation. She regarded media reports as largely biased and scaremongering.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 16 >> She was reassured when her health visitor told her that the symptoms of autism tend to appear around the same age that MMR is given.

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.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 37 >> The scientific basis of the research study was dubious and had conflicts of interest.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of the health professionals. For MMR: Gathered information from the media, and talked to friends who were doctors. His own experience of working with children with learning difficulties informed their decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 5 years plus >> Interview 43 >> He thought that the research suggesting a link between MMR and autism was not convincing enough to make him believe that his son's autism could have b

For all immunisations: His medical training helped him to make immunisation decisions for his children.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 20 >> Describe the changes in their son from the time that he had the MMR vaccine.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals for two eldest boys. For MMR: They followed recommendations of health professionals for two eldest boys. Reactions that their second son had to MMR, an extensive review of research papers in medical journals, and using the Internet to read about both pro and anti immunisation arguments helped them to make their decisions for their youngest son.