Unknown Risks:Parental Hesitation about Vaccination

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 479-489

  Blaisdell, Laura L ^a   Gutheil, Caitlin ^a   Hootsmans, Norbert A M ^b   Han, Paul K J ^a  

^a Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ambiguity; decision making; hesitancy; refusal; vaccine

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; VACCINATION;

ADULT; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARENTS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 84964067862     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X15607855     Document Type: Article

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