Knowledge, attitudes, barriers and uptake rate of influenza virus vaccine among children from 6 months to 5 years of age in Jordan: a multicentric cross-sectional study
There is an overall low uptake of influenza vaccine amongst children in Jordan. There is a need for public health programs and more involvement of the healthcare professionals to improve the reported rates of vaccination from Jordan. This is in addition to focusing these programs on reported barriers for the influenza vaccine uptake.
Authors
- Mea’ad M. Harahsheh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4607-3040)
- Sandra Al-Tarawneh
- Mary Almadani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6086-0430)
- Rand Abu Mahfouz
- Munir Abu-Helalah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2437-5547)
- Nadine N. Abdelhadi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-168X)
- Amro Asfour
- Mohammad Al‐Hanaktah (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5683-1630)
- Lekaa Al Mughrabi
Institutions
- University of Jordan (JO)
- American University of Madaba (JO)
- Mutah University (JO)
- Jordan Hospital (JO)
- Specialty Hospital, Jordan (JO)
- Ministry of Health (JO)
- The Farah Hospital (JO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Italian Journal of Pediatrics/Italian journal of pediatrics
- Published
- 2025-04-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13052-025-01935-7
- Citations
- 6
- Primary Topic
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 13.00