Table 2.

Ideas Regarding Vaccination of Adolescents: Adolescents and Parents

	Topic Areas
	Understanding of Concepts About Vaccinations	Decision Making About Vaccination	Ideas About Vaccine for a Sexually Transmitted Infection
Adults	Had difficulty understanding concepts of vaccines, risks, benefits Why do people get vaccines?: to prevent disease	Routine part of life, not a choice Opportunity to educate adolescent and to work on transitioning to adult decision making	Reasons for acceptance of vaccine: to be safe and to protect adolescent in future Reasons for rejection of vaccine: adolescent does not need it
Adolescents
	Had difficulty understanding concepts of vaccines, risks, benefits Why do people get vaccines?: so that they can go to school, to prevent disease, to test for disease, or did not know why vaccinated	Adults should make decision But adults do not always know what is best for adolescent Feel a conflict with learning to take responsibility for their bodies Afraid of needle, afraid of contamination of the needle	Reasons for: disease prevention, get it over with, okay if can afford it Reasons against: do not need it, worry that would get sick from it, worry that being deceived, worry about needle