Have you ever had a discussion with a parent that is vaccine hesitant and didn’t know what to say to help them?
Dr. Cora Constantinescu, pediatric infectious disease physician at Alberta Children’s Hospital and University of Calgary (@UCalgary), is here to give you a few tips.
- Listen to their concerns with empathy and try to understand where they’re coming from and what is worrying them.
- Adapt the information you will pass on so that it answers their specific concern.
- Sharing with them your own experience, why you have vaccinated your children and what was the motivation behind your decision can also help.
- You can ask if they know how and where they can make a vaccination appointment, and offer to help if they don’t.
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There are a couple of things you can do to help when talking with a parent that is vaccine hesitant about vaccination.
Here’s some great advice from Dr. Cora Constantinescu (@DrCora_C)
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Sources
- What Is Vaccine Confidence?
- Immunization and vaccine awareness poster: Be a champion
- Conversations about pediatric vaccines in the context of COVID-19 – Dr. Cora Constantinescu, pediatric infectious disease physician at Alberta Children’s Hospital and University of Calgary
- Conversations about pediatric vaccines in the context of COVID-19 – Stephanie Elliot, Senior Policy Analyst in Vaccine Confidence at the Public Health Agency of Canada
- Conversations about pediatric vaccines in the context of COVID-19 – Dr. Olivier Drouin, pédiatre au CHU St-Justine and Clinical Associate Professor at Université de Montréal
- COVID-19 Vaccination Tracker
- COVID-19 epidemiology update
