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Assessing vaccine hesitancy and health literacy using a new Italian vaccine confidence index and a modified Italian medical term recognition test: A cross-sectional survey on Italian parents

Guglielmo Arzilli; Lorenzo Stacchini; Virginia Casigliani; Sara Mazzilli; Francesco Aquino; Aurea Oradini-Alacreu; Beatrice Bruni; Filippo Quattrone · 2023 · Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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Abstract

The decline in children’s vaccination coverage and the resurgence of preventable infectious diseases draw attention to parents’ vaccine hesitancy. Our study introduces two validated tools to independently assess vaccine hesitancy and health literacy among parents with school-age children. We developed a Vaccine Confidence Index (VCI) from 10 Likert items, exploring their relationships through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. We modified the IMETER (Italian medical term recognition test) to measure health literacy. We assessed the internal consistency of the modified IMETER and the

Abstract by Guglielmo Arzilli; Lorenzo Stacchini; Virginia Casigliani; Sara Mazzilli; Francesco Aquino; Aurea Oradini-Alacreu; Beatrice Bruni; Filippo Quattrone, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics (2023) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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Metadata source: DOAJ · DOI 10.1080/21645515.2023.2271765