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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
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Messages to health professionals
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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
No reactions to MMR
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 24
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Single vaccines had their own problems so she decided to give her son MMR.
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
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 3-4 years
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Interview 28
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There was evidence that single vaccines especially as offered by private clinics might not be a safe alternative to MMR.
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
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age under 1
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Interview 06
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Thought there was not sufficient evidence to not give her daughter MMR.
For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. Talking to other parents whose child had MMR and using the Internet to gather information on both sides of the argument helped her to make a decision about her daughter's MMR immunisation.
Pregnancy & children
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 25
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She used the Internet to research single measles, mumps and rubella vaccines but it left her with more difficult choices.
For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to friends who were doctors. Used the Internet to search for information. Were influenced by the prime minister's response to questioning about immunisation decisions for his son.
Pregnancy & children
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 25
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Chose a clinic in Harley Street to give her daughter single vaccines because she thought it would be less risky than elsewhere.
For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to friends who were doctors. Used the Internet to search for information. Were influenced by the prime minister's response to questioning about immunisation decisions for his son.
Pregnancy & children
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 31
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Single vaccine clinics were difficult to access and difficult to know which clinics were trustworthy.
For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to her GP and to her hospital consultant. Read information in newspapers and on the Internet. Talked to friends and investigated single vaccines. A friend in the USA helped her to make a final decision.
Pregnancy & children
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 04
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The safety of the single vaccines worried her so she decided to have MMR.
For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR she talked to the health visitor and GP, listened to media reports and trusted the decision that her boss had made about immunisation.
Pregnancy & children
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 27
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She decided against single vaccines because it would take longer for her sons to acquire immunity from the diseases and there was measles and mumps go
For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to health visitor but found it more useful to talk to other parents, including one who had a relative who was a doctor. Read newspaper articles and listened to media reports.
Pregnancy & children
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 01
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She considered single vaccines but was glad she hadn't chosen them when there was a measles outbreak in her daughter's nursery.
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
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 39
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Where they lived a lot of parents didn't immunise, so they decided in favour of MMR because of the increased risk of their daughter coming into contac
For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations from health professionals. For MMR: Read the leaflet given to them by their general practice and searched the Internet for information. Considered information in the media to be sensationalised. Talking to friends who had children was helpful.
Pregnancy & children
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 25
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Tony Blair's failure to answer questions about his own son's vaccines influenced her decision to give her daughter MMR.
For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to friends who were doctors. Used the Internet to search for information. Were influenced by the prime minister's response to questioning about immunisation decisions for his son.
Pregnancy & children
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Immunisation
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Youngest child's age 1-2 years
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Interview 25
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They are comfortable with the decision they made to give their daughter single measles, mumps and rubella vaccines.
For DTaP/IPV/Hib: Followed recommendations of health professionals. For MMR: Talked to friends who were doctors. Used the Internet to search for information. Were influenced by the prime minister's response to questioning about immunisation decisions for his son.
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