Attitudes towards vaccines from young people in North West London
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Healthwatch Ealing wanted to find out young people's attitudes to vaccination and immunisation. They primarily focused on two groups during our study, first children between the ages of 10-18, and second the rest of the general population 18+. They also focused on efforts in areas that had low vaccine uptake, such as Acton.
Overall, both children and adults have positive attitudes towards vaccines, only a small minority having negative sentiments towards them.
Only 4% of children and adults have never gotten a vaccine of any sort.
HPV was lagging behind other vaccines in uptake, reasons given for this were gender-based misconceptions.
36% of children do not list a trusted source as their primary place to get vaccine information.
People had misconceptions about what a vaccine is and does to be prominent reasons for distrusting them.
Most people believe more transparency around vaccinations would make them more comfortable with them.