Parental Attitudes About Child Vaccines – Evidence of scale
improvement

J 2025

Parental Attitudes About Child Vaccines – Evidence of scale improvement

VOJTÍŠEK, Tomáš; Pavla PALKOVIČOVÁ a Hynek CÍGLER

Základní údaje

Originální název

Parental Attitudes About Child Vaccines – Evidence of scale improvement

Autoři

VOJTÍŠEK, Tomáš ; Pavla PALKOVIČOVÁ a Hynek CÍGLER

Vydání

ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ PSYCHOLOGIE, 2025, 0009-062X

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50101 Psychology

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 0.400 v roce 2024

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

DOI

https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.69.1.16

UT WoS

001428164700001

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85219096416

Klíčová slova anglicky

vaccine hesitancy; child vaccines; adaptation; confirmatory factor analysis

Štítky

14235020, 14235070, EV_FSS25

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 1. 1. 2026 13:42, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

This study set out to develop and validate an enhanced Czech version of the Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines (PACV) questionnaire, known as PACV5. The PACV5, featuring a simplified, five-point response scale, demonstrates a marked improvement in reliability over the original PACV without significantly affecting completion time. A total of 204 participants were involved in the survey, answering either the PACV or PACV5 and their responses were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis. The results indicated a superior fit of a two-factor model over a single-factor model for the PACV5 data, with the originally proposed three-factor model failing to improve model fit significantly. Feedback from participants suggests further refinement of PACV5, such as clarifying the questionnaireʼs focus on mandatory vaccinations and including items about the experience of vaccination side effects. Despite the limitation of a small sample size, the findings from this brief study highlight PACV5 as a more reliable tool than PACV in measuring vaccine hesitancy within the Czech population. As such, the PACV5 may have valuable applications in public health initiatives addressing vaccine hesitancy. Future research with larger sample sizes and translations to other languages is encouraged to corroborate these findings, demonstrate their generalizability, and further explore the overarching construct of (parental) vaccine hesitancy.

Citovat

VOJTÍŠEK, Tomáš; Pavla PALKOVIČOVÁ a Hynek CÍGLER. Parental Attitudes About Child Vaccines – Evidence of scale improvement. ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ PSYCHOLOGIE. 2025, roč. 69, č. 1, s. 16-27. ISSN 0009-062X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.69.1.16.

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VOJTÍŠEK, Tomáš; Pavla PALKOVIČOVÁ a Hynek CÍGLER. Parental Attitudes About Child Vaccines – Evidence of scale improvement. \textit{ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ PSYCHOLOGIE}. 2025, roč.~69, č.~1, s.~16-27. ISSN~0009-062X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.51561/cspsych.69.1.16.

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