title: Information Curation among Vaccine Cautious Parents: Web 2.0, Pinterest Thinking, and Pediatric Vaccination Choice.
abstract: To learn about pediatric vaccine decision-making, we surveyed and interviewed US parents with at least one child kindergarten age or younger (N = 53). Through an anthropologically informed content analysis, we found that fully vaccinating parents (n = 33) mostly saw vaccination as routine. In contrast, selective and nonvaccinating parents (n = 20) exhibited the type of self-informed engagement that the health care system recommends. Selective vaccinators also expressed multiple, sometimes contradictory positions on vaccination that were keyed to individual children's biologies, child size, environmental hazards, specific diseases, and discrete vaccines. Rather than logical progressions, viewpoints were presented as assembled collections, reflecting contemporary information filtering and curation practices and the prevalence of collectively experienced and constructed digital "hive" narratives. Findings confirm the need for a noncategorical approach to intervention that accommodates the fluid, polyvalent nature of vaccine reasoning and the curatorial view selectively vaccinating parents take toward information while honoring their efforts at engaged healthcare consumption.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Anthropology , San Diego State University , California , USA.
authors.forename: Elisa J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Sobo
authors.affiliation: b Department of Anthropology , California State University San Bernardino , USA.
authors.forename: Arianna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Huhn
authors.affiliation: a Department of Anthropology , San Diego State University , California , USA.
authors.forename: Autumn
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sannwald
authors.affiliation: a Department of Anthropology , San Diego State University , California , USA.
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Thurman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000070377:Anti-Vaccination Movement / Q000523:psychology*; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011639:Public Opinion; D061108:Social Media; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology; D014611:Vaccination; D000072758:Vaccination Refusal
keywords: Citizen science; immunization; parenting; patient activation; social media