Parents' attitudes toward childhood vaccinations

Aim: In this study aims to examine parents' knowledge levels regarding childhood vaccines, their attitudes towards immunization services, and their hesitancy towards vaccination; and to determine the vaccination rates of children. Material and Method: Correlation analysis was used to examine the relationship between the mean scores obtained from the scales. The study included 250 participants. 73.2% were female and 26.8% were male. Participants' ages ranged from 18 to 65. 68.8% of participating parents received information about vaccination from nurses and other healthcare personnel, 22.8% from doctors, and 8.4% from newspapers and magazines. Higher scores on the scales indicate greater vaccine hesitancy. Higher scale scores indicate higher vaccine hesitancy. Results: As a result, the level of vaccine instability in newspaper and television vaccine-related information is higher than that of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. Conclusion: The level of behavior hesitant about vaccination varies according to gender, marital status, family type, education status, co-education status, location of vaccination, income status. Keywords: Parents, vaccines, anti-vaccine, vaccine attitudes, children