The WHO has listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to global health.~The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the need to vaccinate worldwide as soon as a safe and efficacious vaccine becomes available. However preliminary data show that, on average, only 50% to 66% of US adults would be willing to receive COVID-19 vaccination when it becomes available, a percentage lower than what is required for herd immunity to control the pandemic. Furthermore, there is a pressing need to vaccinate children to reopen schools and keeping them safe, as well as to immunize pregnant women through vaccination programs since they constitute a vulnerable population. Vaccine confidence among pregnant women and mothers of school-aged children during the period of COVID-19 pandemic is unknown, leading to an important gap of knowledge that may hinder the upcoming global COVID-19 vaccination scale-up effort. It is therefore of critical importance to assess the level of vaccine confidence and influencers among pregnant women and mothers of school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic.~The international nature of the proposed survey will allow the evaluation of vaccine confidence and its influencers among pregnant women and mothers of school-aged children on a global level. Therefore, social and geographic characteristics from different countries and cultures will be available for comparison. The resulting knowledge will be relevant to a large percentage of the world's population. Any country in the world can participate.
The purpose of this study is to assess the level of vaccine confidence and influencers among pregnant women and mothers of school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic.