Vaccinating Children: Article Analysis

In the same fashion that parents come to the conclusion for a number of reasons to not vaccinate their child, it’s important to realize that when considering vaccinations, parents have to go through a process as far as being educated, religious beliefs, and making a well informed decision on whether to vaccinate their child. The article titled How parents make decisions about their children’s vaccinations by E. Brunson. This author explains that the study conducted was given to parents whose children were younger than 18 months. Another aspect that was considered was age, income, and education of the parents. Parents were first questioned using open ended questions which then progressed to more specific questions. (Brunson, 2013) The research …show more content…
Although parents considered vaccinations are normal or something that was natural the article discusses how parents felt about parent’s who choose not to vaccinate their children as being selfish, irresponsible and lazy. The parents also felt like a parent who doesn’t vaccinate their child as a harm to society and isn’t helping the community form disease. Parents didn’t want to be judged by others for not vaccinating their child. (Brunson, 2013) In addition to how parents felt about vaccinations the article pointed out that parents were only using information they gained previous to becoming a part of this study, which didn’t have to consider vaccinating their child till they actually found out they were pregnant or were attempting to become pregnant. By having this happen it caused parents to really consider if they were okay with vaccinating their child. Once parents took the time to consider this option they did a number of things to come to their choices. Parents did research, spoke with others to gain advice and thought about the long and short term …show more content…
(CP, 2008) The results of their findings were that of the 2326 children that were a part of this study also shows that parents also used other resources such as pamphlets, videos, the use of the internet, and television. When parents were asked if they were satisfied with the information given to them 70% of the parents were satisfied. The other half were unsatisfied due to lack of information, not being informed enough or at all by medical professionals. The results of this article were that parents were more comfortable with agreeing with vaccinating their children, which depended on how much information they were given to them by the health care professional. (CP, 2008). This research shows that parents in other countries are more concerned with the amount of information a health care professional can give them compared to using other resources to gain more knowledge. When relating homeopathic vaccines in relation to the book The Vaccine Guide risks and benefits for Children and Adults this book discusses many other topics in regards to vaccines, but they discuss what