TY - JOUR
T1 - Parent support for social media standards combatting vaccine misinformation
AU - Spanos, Katherine E.
AU - Kraschnewski, Jennifer L.
AU - Moss, Jennifer L.
AU - Wong, Ashley
AU - Calo, William A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (#124171-IRG-13-043-01). Funders played no role in 1) study design; 2) the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; 3) the writing of the manuscript; or 4) the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors.
Funding Information:
The authors declare the following financial interests/personal relationships which may be considered as potential competing interests: Kraschnewski was Principal Investigator of a Penn State University College of Medicine research grant awarded by Merck. The other authors have no financial disclosures or potential conflicts of interest to report.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/3/1
Y1 - 2021/3/1
N2 - We sought to assess parental support for varying standards that social media sites can employ to combat vaccine misinformation. Between July and August 2019, we conducted a web-based survey with a national sample of 1073 parents of adolescents and who use social media. The survey assessed support for ten standards about vaccine misinformation. Multivariable logistic regression assessed correlates of support. Overall, 61% of parents supported at least one standard. Support for each standard varied greatly (12–51%), with higher support for less restrictive standards. Parents more often supported standards if their child had already initiated human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, if they were non-Hispanic black or Hispanic, if they agreed that vaccine misinformation is harmful, or if they saw information on social media in favor of HPV vaccine (all p < .05). Our findings suggest favorable support for standards that social media sites can implement to combat vaccine misinformation.
AB - We sought to assess parental support for varying standards that social media sites can employ to combat vaccine misinformation. Between July and August 2019, we conducted a web-based survey with a national sample of 1073 parents of adolescents and who use social media. The survey assessed support for ten standards about vaccine misinformation. Multivariable logistic regression assessed correlates of support. Overall, 61% of parents supported at least one standard. Support for each standard varied greatly (12–51%), with higher support for less restrictive standards. Parents more often supported standards if their child had already initiated human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, if they were non-Hispanic black or Hispanic, if they agreed that vaccine misinformation is harmful, or if they saw information on social media in favor of HPV vaccine (all p < .05). Our findings suggest favorable support for standards that social media sites can implement to combat vaccine misinformation.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.01.005
DO - 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.01.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 33551299
AN - SCOPUS:85100433744
SN - 0264-410X
VL - 39
SP - 1364
EP - 1369
JO - Vaccine
JF - Vaccine
IS - 9
ER -
