Understanding factors that influence those who are initially COVID-19 vaccine hesitant to accept vaccination is valuable for the development of vaccine promotion strategies. Using Ipsos KnowledgePanel®, we conducted a national survey of adults aged 18 and older in the United States. We created a questionnaire to examine factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine uptake over a longitudinal period ("Wave 1" in April 2021 and "Wave 2" in February 2022), and utilized weighted data provided by Ipsos to make the data nationally representative.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 vaccination of U.S. children lags behind adult vaccination, but remains critical in mitigating the pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The Promoting Excellence and Reflective Learning in Simulation (PEARLS) Healthcare Debriefing Tool is a cognitive aid designed to deploy debriefing in a structured way. The tool has the potential to increase the facilitator's ability to acquire debriefing skills, by breaking down the complexity of debriefing and thereby improving the quality of a novice facilitator's debrief. In this pilot study, we aimed to evaluate the impact of the tool on facilitators' cognitive load, workload, and debriefing quality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLittle is known about how adolescents' and parents' thoughts about participation in clinical trials change over time. In this study, adolescent (14-17 years)-parent dyads were asked about willingness to participate in a hypothetical reproductive health study. A year later, they were asked how their thoughts about the study had changed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objective: In this study we describe adolescent and parent retention and changes in willingness to participate (WTP) in research among adolescents, parents, and adolescent-parent dyads.
Design And Setting: Adolescent-parent dyads were recruited to participate in a longitudinal study to assess research participation attitudes using simultaneous individual interviews of the adolescent and parent with a return visit 1 year later using the same interview.
Participants: Adolescents (14-17 years old) and their parents.
The objective of this study is to understand the resolution of discordance between adolescent-parent dyads about participation in research. Adolescent (14-17 years) and parent dyads were recruited from NYC pediatric clinics to assess attitudes toward research participation. A subset of dyads participated in videotaped discussions about participation in a hypothetical study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause significant infant morbidity. Little is known about pregnant women's attitudes regarding behavioral strategies and hypothetical vaccination to prevent Zika infections and sequelae.
Methods: Pregnant women across the United States (N = 362) completed an online questionnaire regarding attitudes about Zika, including six behavioral prevention strategies (i.
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol
February 2018
Study Objective: To examine how adolescent-parent dyads describe decision-making regarding initiation of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series, specifically who they viewed as making the final decision.
Design: Semistructured interviews with adolescent-parent dyads were audio-recorded and transcribed. Responses to the question: "How did you make a decision about whether or not to receive the HPV vaccine series?" were content-coded for each individual member of the dyad.
Grandmothers and fathers of the baby may influence pregnant women's microbicide use. Pregnant young women's attitudes about grandmothers' and fathers' role in decision-making and their involvement in microbicide use were assessed. Participants (n=108) had a mean age of 20.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol
February 2017
Study Objective: To understand adolescents' and parents' willingness to participate (WTP) in a hypothetical phase I prevention study of sexually transmitted infections, discordance within adolescent-parent dyads, and expectations of each other during decision-making.
Design And Setting: Adolescent-parent dyads were recruited to participate in a longitudinal study about research participation attitudes.
Participants: Adolescents (14-17 years old) and their parents (n = 301 dyads) participated.
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol
August 2016
Study Objective: To understand parent and adolescent attitudes toward parental involvement during clinical trials and factors related to those attitudes.
Design: As part of a study on willingness to participate in a hypothetical microbicide study, adolescents and their parents were interviewed separately.
Setting: Adolescent medicine clinics in New York City.
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol
June 2016
Study Objective: To understand how adolescents and parents describe a sexually transmitted infection prevention study to a friend.
Design: Adolescents and parents participating in a study about willingness to participate in a hypothetical microbicide clinical trial were interviewed separately and asked to describe the clinical trial to a friend. Qualitative responses were written down verbatim and coded using a thematic framework analysis.