1. Summary of related published reviews focused on the demand side of childhood vaccination.
Author/ date |
Title | Focus | Methodology |
Dube 2018 | Underlying factors impacting vaccine hesitancy in high‐income countries: a review of qualitative studies | Focuses on the determinants of parents’ attitudes and behaviours towards childhood vaccination. Only includes studies from HICs | Qualitative |
Larson 2018b | Measuring trust in vaccination: a systematic review | Focuses specifically on the issue of trust and how different dimensions of trust interact to influence vaccine acceptance, hesitancy and refusal. Considers vaccines for both children and adolescents | Mixed methods, includes both quantitative and qualitative studies |
Ames 2017b | Parents’ and informal caregivers’ views and experiences of communication about routine childhood vaccination: a synthesis of qualitative evidence | Focuses specifically on views and experiences of communication interventions about childhood vaccinations | Qualitative |
Karafillakis 2017 | The benefit of the doubt or doubts over benefits? A systematic literature review of perceived risks of vaccines in European populations | Focuses on perceptions of the benefits and risks of vaccines. Only includes studies from Europe and considers vaccines for all age groups | Mixed methods, includes both quantitative and qualitative studies |
Carlsen 2016 | The swine flu vaccine, public attitudes, and researcher interpretations: a systematic review of qualitative research | Focuses on attitudes towards a vaccine given in response to a pandemic and also considers all age groups | Qualitative |
Corben 2016 | To close the childhood immunisation gap, we need a richer understanding of parents’ decision‐making | A narrative review focusing on factors influencing parents’ vaccination decision‐making and interventions to increase vaccination uptake | Mixed methods, includes both quantitative and qualitative studies |
Tauil 2016 | Factors associated with incomplete or delayed vaccination across countries: a systematic review | Focuses on the factors influencing adherence to routine childhood immunisation schedule. Considers both demand‐ and supply‐related factors | Quantitative |
Larson 2014 | Understanding vaccine hesitancy around vaccines and vaccination from a global perspective: a systematic review of published literature, 2007‐2012 |
Focuses on the factors affecting vaccine hesitancy and its determinants | Quantitative |
Williams 2014 | What are the factors that contribute to parental vaccine‐hesitancy and what can we do about it? | Focuses on the barriers to vaccination reported by vaccine‐hesitant parents and the current evidence on strategies to address parental vaccine hesitancy. Considers vaccines for both children and adolescents | Quantitative |
Yaqub 2014 | Attitudes to vaccination: a critical review | Focuses on vaccination attitudes among the public and healthcare professionals. Only includes studies from Europe and considers vaccines for all age groups | Mixed methods, includes both quantitative and qualitative studies |
Dube 2013 | Vaccine hesitancy: an overview | A narrative review providing an overview of the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy and the possible causes of its increase, and the determinants of individual vaccination decision‐making. Only includes studies from HICs | Unclear as it includes multiple studies and reviews and does not specify the methods for each |
Favin 2012 | Why children are not vaccinated: a review of the grey literature | A review of grey literature focusing on the reasons for childhood incomplete or non‐vaccination. Considers both demand‐ and supply‐related factors | Mixed methods, includes both quantitative and qualitative studies |
Rainey 2011 | Reasons related to non‐vaccination and under‐vaccination of children in LMICs: findings from a systematic review of the published literature, 1999–2009 | Focuses on the factors related to the under‐vaccination and non‐vaccination of children. Considers both demand‐ and supply‐ related factors and only includes studies from LMICs | Mixed methods, includes both quantitative and qualitative studies |
Brown 2010 | Factors underlying parental decisions about combination childhood vaccinations including MMR: a systematic review | Focuses on the factors influencing vaccination decisions. Only includes studies from HICs and considers only combination MMR vaccines | Mixed methods, includes both quantitative and qualitative studies |
Falagas 2008 | Factors associated with suboptimal compliance to vaccinations in children in developed countries: a systematic review | Focuses on the factors associated with suboptimal childhood vaccination compliance. Only includes studies from HICs | Quantitative |
Jackson 2008 | A systematic review of decision support needs of parents making child health decisions | Focuses on all parental decision‐making about child health, not just vaccination | Mixed methods, includes both quantitative and qualitative studies |
Nagaraj 2006 | Does qualitative synthesis of anecdotal evidence with that from scientific research help in understanding public health issues: a review of low MMR uptake | Focuses on professional and parental factors underlying uptake of MMR only, and only includes studies from HICs | Qualitative, includes technical and non‐technical anecdotal literature |
Mills 2005 | Systematic review of qualitative studies exploring parental beliefs and attitudes toward childhood vaccination identifies common barriers to vaccination | Focuses on parental beliefs and attitudes toward childhood vaccination and associated barriers to paediatric immunisations. Only includes studies from HICs | Qualitative |
Sturm 2005 | Parental beliefs and decision making about child and adolescent immunisation: from polio to sexually transmitted infections | A narrative review focusing on the influence of parental attitudes and beliefs on vaccine decision‐making. Only includes studies from HICs and considers vaccines for children and adolescents |
Mixed methods, includes both quantitative and qualitative studies |
Roberts 2002 | Factors affecting uptake of childhood immunisation: a Bayesian synthesis of qualitative and quantitative evidence | Focuses on the factors that affect the uptake of recommended childhood immunisations. Only includes studies from HICs | Mixed |
HICs: high‐income countries; LMICs: low‐ and middle‐income countries; MMR: measles, mumps, and rubella