Research Methodology for Immunisation: Factors Contributing to Parental Vaccine Hesitancy

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Questions 1-4 (25 marks – 500 word equivalent)
Question 1a. From the background information provided above relating to
immunisation, develop a researchable question. Type the question below:
What are the factors that contribute to parental vaccine hesitancy and what can we do about it.
Question 1b: Identify the elements of (words relating to) PICO (or PIO, if
appropriate) in the research question that you have formulated:
(Echevarria and Walker, 2014)
P Parents
I Vaccine
C What can be done
O Hesitancy
Question 2a. What type of research methodology do you think should be used
to answer the research question that you have formulated?
☐Quantitative
☒Qualitative
☐Mixed methods
Question 2b. Justify why this methodology was chosen to answer the question
(
Approx 75 words -
reference/s used to support your response should be written
below your answer and are not included in the word count).
Qualitative methodology is the best research strategy that can be applied to answer the
question. This is because the approach naturally seeks in depth understanding of a social
phenoma. It is an approach that focuses on why by providing crucial information about
human issues like beliefs, emotions and behaviors towards a certain phenoma. In this case,
the qualitative methodology will provide extensive information on why parents and
pregnant mothers fail to allow their children to go for a vaccine, their beliefs about the
vaccine. With sucg information the researcher will be able to understand the factors that
contribute to prental hectancy to vaccine and what solutions or strategies can be layed to
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promote vaccine participation.
Question 3a. List 3 places/sources of information that can be used to obtain
reliable evidence to answer the research question that you have formulated:
1. Pubmed
2. Google schoolar
3. Scopus
Question 3b. Using one of the resources listed above,provide the details of a
specific resource/publication that is an example of best available evidence to
assist you in answering your research question. Complete the table below:
Provide the full
reference/title for the
resource/publication Full reference of the resource is , Williams, S.E.,
2014. What are the factors that contribute to
parental vaccine-hesitancy and what can we do
about it?. Human vaccines &
immunotherapeutics, 10(9), pp.2584-2596.
Provide the URL https://doi.org/10.4161/hv.28596
Question 3c. Explain why the information source chosen is an example of best
available evidence for answering the research question that you have
formulated. Refer to the Levels of Evidence and Hierarchy of Evidence tables in
Topic 2 (
Approx 75 words - reference/s used to support your response should be
written below your answer and are not included in the word count).
The article that I have choosen above is a good example of the best avillable evidence as it
answers my research question by proving the possible factors or barriers that have led to
delay of childhood vaccines. The article reviews the known barriers from reports that
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have been made by vaccine hesitant parents (Williams, 2014). The article also addresses
the question” what can be done ?“ by providing various intervention focused on routine
childhood vaccines. Such strategies include communicatin strategies and educating parents
on the merits of certain vaccines.
Question 4a: List three key words that will assist in finding suitable literature in
a library database to answer the research question that you have formulated.
For each of the search terms, suggest an alternate word for which the Boolean
function “or” could be used and truncations and wildcards.
Keyword Search term/s
for Boolean
‘or”
Truncation/s Wildcards
1 Vaccines Exemption Human
papillomavirus
Measles
2 Vaccine refusal Vaccine hesitant
parents
Vaccine attitude,
beliefs, knowledge
and behaviors
Rubella vaccine
3 Vaccine hectancy Vaccinatin
decisions
Vaccination
preventive diseases
VHPs
Question 4b: What actions could be taken to extend or limit the number
of articles found or improve the quality/relevance of the articles found
in the search? (
Approx 75 words -
reference/s used to support your response
should be written below your answer and are not included in the word count).
After executing the search with Boolean phrase search such as vaccine “hesitant parents”,
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