Thanks to all of our members for returning their surveys and keeping us up on how they feel about this issue. There has been an excellent response to the survey sent out with the May newsletter. As at Friday 14th August, we had received 407 questionnaires. We are still working on data entry and analysis but preliminary results are available. AVN members overwhelmingly gave the thumbs down to childhood vaccination.
Respondents generally have good levels of education.
Some respondents provided a lot of detail that will take time to document. Some vivid descriptions of shocking adverse reactions and long term effects came in. We will be trying to capture the content in a subsequent report. You can be assured the anonymity of members will be preserved. It is certain that the negative attitudes to vaccination of respondents are being reflected in their family health practices.