Novel idea helps change anti-vaxxers' minds
Coming face-to-face with vaccine-preventable disease helps shift attitudes of students, study finds
23rd May 2019
Putting a person face-to-face with the misery of vaccine-preventable diseases may be an effective way to overcome vaccine hesitancy, a study suggests.
Researchers from Brigham Young University in the US took a novel approach to improving attitudes among students who were vaccine-hesitant by showing them the effects of vaccine-preventable diseases.
"Vaccine attitudes improved when the participants gained a personal understanding of how vaccine-preventable diseases affect individuals and communities,” the authors wrote in the journal Vaccine.
In the study,
