Parental knowledge and attitudes to infant immunization in the context of RSV: All about confidence?

Background: Recently, the first RSV vaccines have been approved, but vaccine hesitancy still poses great challenges to immunization programs.

Objective: To investigate this phenomenon in the context of the new RSV vaccines and an increased virus activity in 2022/23, we assessed parental knowledge and attitudes towards general childhood and RSV vaccines.

Methods: Parents of infants from 0-36 months completed an online questionnaire on demographics, socio-economic status, mental well-being, knowledge on RSV and perceptions of disease, attitudes to general childhood and RSV vaccines.