Course: Association of Discrimination and Health Care Experiences With Incomplete Infant Vaccination During COVID-19
CME Credits: 1.00
Released: 2021-11-22
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly affected the lives of pregnant individuals and their infants, resulting in prenatal health care disruptions, reduced duration of postpartum hospitalization, a sharp decrease in infant vaccination rates, and other stressful situations. Understanding predictors of vaccination, particularly when vaccine hesitancy is increasing, is important to developing public health policies and preventive interventions to increase vaccine uptake. We prospectively investigated how maternal experiences predicted vaccination status among infants born during the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we examined the contribution of COVID-19–related health care limitations (eg, prenatal telehealth care, <2 days postpartum hospitalization), perinatal experiences (eg, discrimination, birth satisfaction), COVID-19–related stress, and known social determinants of health to vaccination status of infants at 3 to 5 months of age.
Educational Objective
To identify the key insights or developments described in this article
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