Parental MMR Vaccine Decisions Survey on Autism Attitudes and Scientific Literacy

132 parents and expectant parents participated in a survey investigating the impact of attitudes toward autism spectrum disorders and scientific literacy on vaccination decisions. The study was authored by Anja Draper and published via the paperswithcode platform. It found that only attitudes towards the MMR vaccine predicted actual vaccination status, not scientific literacy.

Use Cases

• Analyzing correlations between parental attitudes toward autism and MMR vaccine decisions based on survey responses.
• Modeling the relationship between scientific literacy test scores and vaccination attitudes using survey data.
• Investigating demographic factors (like education level) in vaccine decision-making based on the participant sample.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a survey of 132 participants with a mean age of 38.40 years.
• Over 60% of the participant sample reported having a university education.

Limitations

• Row count for the underlying data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Anja Draper via paperswithcode

Collection Method

Survey of parents and expectant parents, including a standardized science test (The American College Test).