1647. Investigating Parents’ Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Arab Emirates: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Background Vaccine hesitancy has been declared by the World Health Organization as a top threat to public health in 2019. It has been studied extensively in the Western world but not so among Arabs. The Parent Attitudes about Childhood Vaccines (PACV) survey is a validated instrument for identifying vaccine-hesitant parents; however, Arabic version is not available. This study aimed to assess the reliability of the PACV survey in Arabic language and to determine the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy among parents in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).