Parents' Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Vaccinating Their Children

NCT07672886 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: DEP309/15.10.2025
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 200
• Locations: 0 countries
• Sites: N/A

Brief Summary

Purpose: To identify and evaluate the factors that influence parents' attitudes towards vaccination. Objectives:

1. 1.To assess parents' level of knowledge about vaccines
2. 2.To assess parents' attitudes and behavior regarding vaccine administration.
3. 3.To observe whether there is a link between various socio-demographic factors and their knowledge about vaccines.
4. 4.To assess the relationship and communication between doctors and parents.
5. 5.To evaluate the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on parents' trust in vaccines.

Conditions

Vaccine Hesitancy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• The questionnaire administered to parents and caregivers, entitled "Parents' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Childhood Vaccination", was designed to identify the factors influencing vaccine acceptance, hesitancy, and refusal.

  The questionnaire items were structured into the following main domains: Sociodemographic characteristics Vaccination status Attitudes and motivations Sources of information and trust Data obtained from the questionnaires will be analysed. The distribution of quantitative variables will be assessed using the Shapiro-Wilk test. Categorical variables will be expressed as absolute frequencies and percentages. Associations between categorical variables were evaluated using the Chi-square test. Comparisons of non-parametric quantitative variables between two independent groups were performed using the Mann-Whitney U test.

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Study Arms (1)

Parents questionaires

EXPERIMENTAL

Distribution of questionnaires to parents of patients under 18 years of age admitted in the Emergency Children's Hospital, Cluj-Napoca

Other: questionnaire application

Interventions

questionnaire application OTHER

questionnaire application

Parents questionaires

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• \- parents of patients under 18 years of age admitted to the Emergency Children's Hospital, Cluj-Napoca, Paediatrics Clinic III during January -sept 2026

You may not qualify if:

• \- parent of patients under 18 years who refuse to participate or to fill in the questionnaire and the consent form

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy: lead

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Vaccination Hesitancy

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Vaccination Refusal; Treatment Refusal; Treatment Adherence and Compliance; Health Behavior; Behavior

Central Study Contacts

Valentina Sas

CONTACT

+40740139979; sas.valentina@umfcluj.ro

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Assistant Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 26, 2026
• First Posted: June 29, 2026
• Study Start: July 1, 2026
• Primary Completion: July 1, 2026
• Study Completion: July 1, 2026
• Last Updated: June 29, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share