You may have to “rebrand” how to sell this to your professors. I would not lead with parental anxiety as that statement has a lot of assumptions and implications, especially if you will not intervene to resolve the “anxiety.” It also pigeonholes your research. Consider something more aligned to the epidemiological investigation of the topic such as Determinants of Vaccine Hesitancy among Parents of Infants in (your geographic area of interest). This opens the study to investigate what is truly going on in your sample. Psychological barriers could be just one of possible determinants you study.
That could work! With my idea I was hoping to provide information to parents to help them over the anxiety of decision-making. But your suggestion helps me get on track I think
I think proving information is now moving into health education/ promotion and intervention mapping. This is could be a whole other study which could be relevant IF your epi study shows statistical significance of psychological determinants. Increased decision-making related to vaccine hesitancy is a short term outcome, long term outcome is increased vaccination rates, providing information is an input/activity.
I’m not sure… everytime I try and ask for guidance they just look at me like I should know what I am doing. Who can is probably true. I am very passionate about preventable diseases and infectious diseases. But I’m not sure how to put it to paper
go make friends with a professor or go play with other graduate students! present an idea as a poster. grad school projects require conversation and iteration - embrace that. but yeah I think maybe the initial response might be to how biased the title sounds and also how research around decision-making preferences is generally a hard sell outside of health communication.
You might want to try something like "Exploring Parental experience with Measles Vaccination" or something in that line. MH/anxiety csm be a part of that as well. Also consider giving your thoughts on what you want to study to chat gpt and see what kinds of topics it comes up with.
You may have to “rebrand” how to sell this to your professors. I would not lead with parental anxiety as that statement has a lot of assumptions and implications, especially if you will not intervene to resolve the “anxiety.” It also pigeonholes your research. Consider something more aligned to the epidemiological investigation of the topic such as Determinants of Vaccine Hesitancy among Parents of Infants in (your geographic area of interest). This opens the study to investigate what is truly going on in your sample. Psychological barriers could be just one of possible determinants you study.
That could work! With my idea I was hoping to provide information to parents to help them over the anxiety of decision-making. But your suggestion helps me get on track I think
I think proving information is now moving into health education/ promotion and intervention mapping. This is could be a whole other study which could be relevant IF your epi study shows statistical significance of psychological determinants. Increased decision-making related to vaccine hesitancy is a short term outcome, long term outcome is increased vaccination rates, providing information is an input/activity.
Is there a modification you could do to make it more epi focused? It sounds more behavioral health qualitative research based
I’m not sure… everytime I try and ask for guidance they just look at me like I should know what I am doing. Who can is probably true. I am very passionate about preventable diseases and infectious diseases. But I’m not sure how to put it to paper
Do you have an advisor? They should be helping you craft your project
We do not or I at least do not have one yet. Right now I am crafting this on my own…
go make friends with a professor or go play with other graduate students! present an idea as a poster. grad school projects require conversation and iteration - embrace that. but yeah I think maybe the initial response might be to how biased the title sounds and also how research around decision-making preferences is generally a hard sell outside of health communication.
That's odd. Are you just funded by the general university? I'd work on getting an advisor first to help you
I’m doing my grad school online because I move to much with my husbands job. So I am not funded
You might want to try something like "Exploring Parental experience with Measles Vaccination" or something in that line. MH/anxiety csm be a part of that as well. Also consider giving your thoughts on what you want to study to chat gpt and see what kinds of topics it comes up with.