Question

Case Example:

• A couple comes into the clinic with their six-month-old daughter.
• You are the nurse taking a health history on the child and discover that the child has not had any vaccines other than what she received at birth.
• The mother expresses fear about having her child receive any future vaccines.
• She tells you she has heard her friends say they can cause autism and even the very disease that the vaccine is supposed to prevent.

Question:

What would you tell parents who are hesitant to immunize their children about vaccine safety?

Write a response that addresses this controversial issue and include at least one scholarly reference in your response. Respond to at least one peer's posting.

Answer 1

What would you tell parents who are hesitant to immunize their children about vaccine safety?

When you have to deal with a vaccine hesitant parents then there are some information that you should share with and tell the parents about the benefits of vaccination. You have to tell them that vaccination is for the safety of their child. Build trust with them with continuous interaction to avoid deviation. Convey information with the help of communication resources like at vaccination centre posters and billboards should be there to reflect the benefits and reflect the ill effects of refusal of vaccination. Be sure and work toward that Immunization should not be remain an emotional issue.

Tell the parents to avoid any media build misconception about vaccination because in media there may be elements which want to get publicity by creating sensation about health matters. And tell them to follow authentic health educations information . Listen to parents and understand their feeling you can eradicate there misconceptions through continuous attachment. You can give them example of any other parent who refuses vaccination which result ill effects to their child. Like Benjamin Franklin was a anti vaccination campaigner but was regret and refute when he lost the life of there 4 years old child because of small pox.

Write a response that addresses this controversial issue and include at least one scholarly reference in your response. Respond to at least one peer's posting.

Parents always remained very conscious about health of their children. They want to do their best for their child. No one is same in this world neither child nor parents. All have different state of mind some parents know the benefits of vaccination and immunization. But some thought the other ways they think that vaccination is dangerous to child. There are some religious part attached to it may be. Some scared about the ill effects. There may be some instances that vaccination or Immunization may gone wrong through various other reason instead of vaccine. But they maintain a psychology that if there is any ill effect that is because of vaccination only or the there will be any fault of healthcare providers.

There are a group of people who afraid to overload the immune system of child with multiple vaccine combination. There are many determinants like

A. Lifestyle: Healthy lifestyle promote better health prospectives. Many thought that there healthy lifestyle will act as preventive measure so they didn't need of vaccination. But healthy lifestyle is not a granted measure. Today they are in better position they are giving there child a preventive lifestyle but if the circumstances fluctuated then the child's immune response will not handle it.

B. Self acquired Immunity: Some parents thinks that it is better that our child acquire natural immunity itself through environment and diet. But it can be fatal for a child to introduced with such a environment.

C. Risk perception: Some people believed that there are more negative consequences of vaccination than positive. They thought that protection with vaccination is temporary and it will effect negative permanently on their child as allergies,autism etc.

D. Negative experience with vaccination: In life there are some instances people interact with that vaccination go on wrong on exceptional cases. Which effect their perception towards vaccination. But they didn't think about the exceptional positive benefits.

E. Social Environment: Social environment also affects perception towards vaccination like if a friend tell the ill effects of vaccination, tell a story about vaccination goes wrong. These things remains in the mind of other for a long time which affects the perception.