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• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 28 >> Parents have a social responsibility to immunise their children to keep the population as healthy as possible.

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 41 >> We are lucky to have immunisations available in the UK to prevent these diseases.

For all immunisations: Her experience of working in Public Health informed her decisions about immunisations. She believed much of the information from the media to be inaccurate and biased.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 20 >> Has a personal belief that it is better to support their son's immune system through diet & a healthy lifestyle, because they believed the risk of the

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.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 03 >> Immunisations are an important medical advance and parents need to immunise their children to prevent diseases recurring.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed the recommendations of health professionals. She used the Internet to gather information on MMR, particularly from a parenting web site and talked to her Mum, which helped her to make a decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 32 >> There is no need for children to suffer these diseases when immunisations are available to prevent them.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Didn't feel the need to search widely for information but talked to her health visitor and read information in the media before making her decisions.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 3-4 years >> Interview 18 >> Has a personal belief that immunisations might be preventing the immune system from working naturally.

For all immunisations: They used the Internet to search for research papers in medical journals, read books, talked to other parents about their decisions which were both pro and anti immunisation and talked to the midwife at their birth group and to their GP.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 24 >> It's important to help to reduce the incidence of measles to protect pregnant women.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Took advice from her son's Paediatrician. Information from a television documentary had an influence. Discussion with other mums of premature babies helped her to make a decision.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 10 >> Has a personal belief that immunisations are no longer as important because the incidence of these diseases was decreasing.

For DTP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals for her first child. For further immunisations: Read leaflets given to her by her homeopath, read books and talked to her health visitor and GP. Gathered some information from the media but was aware that it may be biased to a specific perspective.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 1-2 years >> Interview 35 >> Young babies not old enough to be immunised against measles and mumps are more at risk of contracting the diseases when levels of immunisations go dow

For all immunisations: Her medical training and her experience of growing up in a third world country helped her to make decisions about her daughter's immunisations.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age under 1 >> Interview 14 >> She believed in being socially responsible but had she thought there was any risk to her child, she would not have immunised.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Found it most useful to talk to friends who had already made decisions about their children's immunisations. Took on board recommendations of health professionals.

• Pregnancy & children >> Immunisation >> Youngest child's age 5 years plus >> Interview 43 >> Children with lowered immune systems who cannot have live immunisations are more at risk of suffering complications when levels of immunisations go do

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 12 >> Have a personal belief that immunisations are good for the majority but should not be given to a small subset of children.

For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals for their son. For MMR and immunisations for their daughter: Conducted an extensive review of the literature and scientific studies using the Internet and talked to their GP and health visitor.

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Parents' Attitudes to Childhood Immunisation