Measuring people's knowledge about vaccination: Developing a one-dimensional scale

Vaccine

Volumn 30, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 3771-3777

  Zingg, Alexandra ^a   Siegrist, Michael ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Children's vaccines; Influenza vaccination; Knowledge; Population; Scale development; Willingness to vaccinate

Indexed keywords

CHICKENPOX VACCINE; DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; MEASLES MUMPS RUBELLA VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; WART VIRUS VACCINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHICKENPOX; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MOKKEN SCALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; POLIOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RATING SCALE; SEASONAL INFLUENZA; SWITZERLAND; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; THERAPEUTIC MISCONCEPTION; VACCINATION KNOWLEDGE;

ADULT; AGED; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SWITZERLAND; VACCINATION;

EID: 84861012585     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: 18732518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.03.014     Document Type: Article

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