Health literacy, health empowerment and health information search in the field of MMR vaccination: a cross-sectional study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Although public health offices have a detailed record of the vaccination coverage among adolescents in Switzerland, little is known about the factors that determine the decisions of parents to get their children vaccinated. Based on Schulz & Nakamoto's Extended Health Empowerment Model, the present study aims at surveying parents of adolescents in Ticino (Switzerland) to get insights into the role of health literacy, health empowerment, information search behaviour and potential confounding variables that influence whether adolescents are not at all vaccinated, undervaccinated or fully covered against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR).

Methods and analysis

A survey including concepts of the Extended Health Empowerment Model will be administered to all families with

SUBMITTER: Diviani N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3533095 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature