scholarly journals Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy among College Students in Nevada: A State-Wide Cross-Sectional Study

Vaccines ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Leslie Elliott ◽  
Kanyeemengtiang Yang

The purpose of this study was to identify factors related to COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in a diverse state-wide population of students. An electronic survey was emailed to students in the Nevada System of Higher Education to assess effects of the pandemic. The survey included questions related to vaccine status, interest in receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, factors influencing these decisions, and sources of health information. Among the 3773 respondents, over half (54%) were accepting of the vaccine, including vaccinated students (18.9%). Nearly one quarter (23.5%) expressed hesitancy to receive the vaccine, citing concerns about side effects and the need for more research. Factors related to hesitancy included female gender, increasing age, place of residence, marital status, and Black or Native American race. Vaccine hesitant respondents were less likely than other respondents to rely on public health agencies or newspapers for health information, and more likely to rely on employers, clinics, or “no one”. Culturally appropriate efforts involving COVID-19 vaccine information and distribution should target certain groups, focusing on factors such as side effects, development and testing of the vaccine. Research should investigate sources of health information of people who are hesitant to receive vaccines.

Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 654
Author(s):  
Marie Pierre Tavolacci ◽  
Pierre Dechelotte ◽  
Joel Ladner

The objectives were to explore, among university students, the level of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitancy, and resistancy and to determine the motivations and barriers, and the reasons that may change student vaccination decision making. An online observational cross-sectional study was conducted among students of a French university in January 2021 with questions about the intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the motivations and the barriers. The convenience sample included 3089 students, with a mean of age of 20.3 (SD = 1.9). To the question on the intention to vaccinate against the COVID-19, 58.0% of students reported that they would choose to have a vaccination, 17.0% reported that they would not and 25.0% were not sure. The main motivations for vaccine acceptance were “I don′t want to transmit COVID-19 to others”, the main barriers for vaccine resistance or hesitancy were “I prefer to wait until I have more experience with these new vaccines”. Age, female gender, being in first three years of study, studied sciences courses and neither sciences nor healthcare courses of study were significantly associated with a higher risk of vaccine hesitancy or resistancy. Self-estimated knowledge of conventional vaccines and COVID-19 vaccines, and confidence in efficiency and safety of conventional vaccination were associated with a lower risk of vaccine hesitancy or resistancy. It is relevant to disseminate evidence-based interventions to promote COVID-19 vaccine acceptability for college students, especially for the students in neither sciences nor healthcare courses of study, as college students will soon be eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.


Vaccines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Shekhar ◽  
Abu Baker Sheikh ◽  
Shubhra Upadhyay ◽  
Mriganka Singh ◽  
Saket Kottewar ◽  
...  

Background: Acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine will play a major role in combating the pandemic. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are among the first group to receive vaccination, so it is important to consider their attitudes about COVID-19 vaccination to better address barriers to widespread vaccination acceptance. Methods: We conducted a cross sectional study to assess the attitude of HCWs toward COVID-19 vaccination. Data were collected between 7 October and 9 November 2020. We received 4080 responses out of which 3479 were complete responses and were included in the final analysis. Results: 36% of respondents were willing to take the vaccine as soon as it became available while 56% were not sure or would wait to review more data. Only 8% of HCWs do not plan to get vaccine. Vaccine acceptance increased with increasing age, education, and income level. A smaller percentage of female (31%), Black (19%), Lantinx (30%), and rural (26%) HCWs were willing to take the vaccine as soon as it became available than the overall study population. Direct medical care providers had higher vaccine acceptance (49%). Safety (69%), effectiveness (69%), and speed of development/approval (74%) were noted as the most common concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccination in our survey.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Jiang ◽  
Baojian Wei ◽  
Hua Lin ◽  
Youjuan Wang ◽  
Shouxia Chai ◽  
...  

Aim: To investigate nursing students' konwledge, attitudes and willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and the influencing factors. Background: Vaccination is one of the effective measures to prevent COVID-19, but the vaccination acceptance varies across countries and populations. As reserve nurses, nursing students have both the professionalism of medical personnel and the special characteristics of school students, their attitudes, knowledge, and willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine may greatly affect the vaccine acceptance of the population now and in the future. But little research has been done on vaccine acceptance among nursing students. Design: A cross-sectional survey of nursing students was conducted via online questionnaires in March 2021. Methods: Descriptive statistics, independent sample t tests/one-way ANOVA (normal distribution), Mann-Whitney U tests/Kruskal-Wallis H tests (skewness distribution) and multivariate linear regression were performed. Results: The score rate of attitude, knowledge and vaccination willingness were 70.07%, 80.70% and 84.38% respectively. Attitude was significantly influenced by family economic conditions and whether a family member had been vaccinated. The main factors influencing knowledge were gender, grade and academic background. In terms of willingness, gender, academic background, visits to risk areas, whether family members were vaccinated, and whether they had side effects were significant influencing factors. Conclusions: The vaccine acceptance of nursing students was fair. Greater focus needed to be placed on the males, those of younger age, with a science background, and having low grades, as well as on students whose family members had not received the COVID-19 vaccine or had side effects from the vaccine. Targeted intervention strategies were recommended to improve vaccination rates.


Author(s):  
Shaveta Kundra ◽  
Jasmine Kaur ◽  
Ankit Dadra ◽  
Sandeep Kundra

Background: Healthcare workers are among the first group to receive coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) vaccine, and their attitude towards the vaccine is likely to affect vaccine acceptance among general population. We aimed to study the attitude of HCWs towards COVID-19 vaccine and determine the factors associated with it.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted through a written questionnaire prior to first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the month of January, 2021, at a district hospital in Ludhiana, Punjab. HCWs were categorized as having negative, positive or mixed attitude based on their response to a written questionnaire. Data was analysed using SPSS version 24.0.Results: More than half of the participants had negative attitude towards COVID-19 vaccine (N=274, 54.5%), while less than a third had positive attitude (N=141, 28.0%) and rest had mixed attitude (N=88, 17.5%). Younger HCWs (<50 years), nurses, females and those living with chronic medical or psychiatric illness showed higher chance of negative attitude towards COVID-19 vaccine, while doctors, paramedical staff, HCWs with higher qualification and urban dwellers had mixed response. On logistic regression analysis, being a female HCW was significantly associated with negative attitude while being a doctor or nurse was significantly associated with mixed attitude towards COVID-19 vaccine. Doubt regarding safety was the commonest response observed among all variables.Conclusions: In the presence of a high proportion of HCWs having negative attitude, targeted interventions should be planned to address specific concerns of HCWs, so as to increase the overall vaccine acceptance for COVID-19 vaccine. 


Author(s):  
Ayman Mandorah ◽  
Othman Wali ◽  
Malak Alqais ◽  
Layla Alsaegh ◽  
Buthaina Fatani ◽  
...  

Background: The dental community has started to use natural plant properties to relieve dental pain. Besides their significant serious side effect, Herb’s ingredients should be chosen wisely. However, many studies are conducted to find out the herb’s information due to the lack of randomized controlled clinical trials. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence and the knowledge of the effect of using herbal medicine for dental pain among Saudi population. Methodology: An observational cross-sectional study was conducted in Saudi Arabia between September 2020 and October 2021. based on a structured questionnaire among Saudi populations. Structured self-administrated questionnaires in English and Arabic languages were used as a study tool. Authors collected the information using social media channels through google forms. SPSS 26 was used for data entry and data analysis. Results: The study included 4213 participants. 25% of study sample were males and 75% were females. 51.6% aged between 20- 30 years old. 61.8% of all participants use herbs to relieve toothache (82% of them use clove or clove oil and 36% use thyme). Think herbs are safe and free from side effects in treating toothache. 8% noticed side effects or damage while using herbs to relieve dental pain (27% of them swelling, 21% sharp stomach pain, 21% hypersensitive and 17% bleeding). Conclusion: The Saudi population show relatively good knowledge level and practice towards herbs use in dentistry. The use of herbs to relieve toothache was significantly associated with female gender, age, residence area in western region and average monthly income.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-158
Author(s):  
Ni Nyoman Ayu Ardiningsih ◽  
Made Pasek Kardiwinata

ABSTRAKLatar Belakang: Vaksinasi COVID-19 merupakan salah satu upaya untuk mengatasi pandemi COVID-19 yang terjadi saat ini. Tingkat penerimaan vaksinasi yang rendah dapat menghambat tercapainya herd immunity. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui gambaran persepsi masyarakat terhadap penerimaan vaksinasi COVID-19 di Kecamatan Karangasem Kabupaten Karangasem.Metode: Desain penelitian studi cross-sectional dengan populasi masyarakat Kecamatan Karangasem berusia 18-59 tahun. Besar sampel 184 orang didapat dengan teknik voluntary sampling. Data dikumpulkan secara online menggunakan google form. Analisis data menggunakan uji chi-square.Hasil: penerimaan vaksinasi sebesar 96,20% dan 3,80% menolak karena memiliki riwayat penyakit komorbid. Variabel yang berhubungan signifikan dengan penerimaan vaksinasi COVID-19 adalah jenis kelamin perempuan (OR=1,62; 95% CI 0,26-11,32), usia lebih dari 55 tahun (OR=3,42; 95% CI 0,44-26,59), pendidikan terakhir perguruan tinggi (OR=11,41; 95% CI 1,32-529,13), persepsi kerentanan terinfeksi COVID-19 yang tinggi (OR=7,79; 95% CI 1,20-83,41), persepsi keparahan terinfeksi COVID-19 yang tinggi (OR=4,37, 95% CI 0,67-46,07), persepsi manfaat vaksinasi COVID-19 yang tinggi (OR=7,79; 95% CI 1,20-83,41), dan persepsi hambatan melakukan vaksinasi yang rendah (OR=5,73; 95% CI 0,10-64,08).Kesimpulan: penelitian selanjutnya perlu untuk mengkaji terkait penyakit komorbid terhadap penerimaan vaksin COVID-19.Kata kunci: COVID-19, penerimaan vaksin, KarangasemABSTRACTBackground: The COVID-19 vaccination is one of the efforts to overcome the current COVID-19 pandemic. Low vaccination acceptance rates can hinder the achievement of herd immunity. The purpose of this study was to describe the public perception of receiving COVID-19 vaccination in the Sub-district of Karangasem, Karangasem Regency.Methods: The design of study used a cross-sectional study with the population of Karangasem Sub-district aged 18-59 years. The sample size of 184 people was obtained by voluntary sampling. Data collected online using google form. Chi-square test were used for data analysis.Results: vaccine acceptance rate was 96.20% and 3,80% refuse to get vaccine because they have comorbid. Variables that have a significant associate to the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination are female gender (OR=1,62; 95% CI 0,26-11,32), age more than 55 years (OR=3,42; 95% CI 0,44-26,59), last college education (OR=11,41; 95% CI 1,32-529,13), high perceived of susceptibility to COVID-19 infection (OR=7,79; 95% CI 1,20-83,41), high perceived of severity if infected with COVID-19 (OR=4,37, 95% CI 0,67-46,07), high perceived benefits of COVID-19 vaccination (OR=7,79; 95% CI 1,20-83,41), and low perceived barriers to vaccination (OR=5,73; 95% CI 0,10-64,08).Conslusion: Further research need to study related comorbid to COVID-19 vaccine acceptance.Keyword: COVID-19, vaccine acceptance, Karangasem


UNICIÊNCIAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Fernanda Elise Corrêa ◽  
Márcia Keller Alves

Por ser um tratamento medicamentoso sistêmico, a quimioterapia atinge não somente as células cancerosas como também as células sadias do organismo, levando a efeitos colaterais indesejados. O texto tem por objetivo analisar a influência dos efeitos colaterais da quimioterapia no estado nutricional de pacientes oncológicos de um hospital de Caxias do Sul. Tratou-se de um estudo transversal descritivo. A população de estudo se constitui por pacientes diagnosticados com câncer e em tratamento quimioterápico ambulatorial no período da coleta de dados (junho a setembro de 2016). Como instrumento de coleta de dados foi utilizada a versão, em português, da Avaliação Subjetiva Global - Produzida pelo Paciente. Informações referentes aos dados gerais do paciente (idade, gênero, peso pregresso e atual, e altura), tipo de tumor, estádio clínico da doença, foram retiradas dos prontuários dos pacientes. Os dados foram analisados descritivamente no software Excel Microsoft® e apresentados através de frequência absoluta (n) e relativa (%). Foram avaliados 42 pacientes, com prevalência do gênero feminino. Os principais efeitos colaterais encontrados foram os sintomas orais, gastrointestinais, sistêmico e inapetência, sendo que a maioria dos pacientes relatou apresentar estes sintomas concomitantemente. Apenas 11,9% dos pacientes relataram não sentir efeitos colaterais do tratamento quimioterápico. Pacientes classificados com excesso de peso e bem nutridos foram os que mais relataram efeitos colaterais. Mostraram-se os efeitos colaterais da quimioterapia, tendo como principais sintomas os orais e os relacionados ao trato gastrointestinal, o que pode vir a afetar diretamente o estado nutricional destes pacientes, considerando que uma grande parte dos indivíduos teve perda de peso significativa.Palavras chaves: Quimioterapia. Câncer. Estado Nutricional AbstractAs a systemic drug treatment, chemotherapy acts not only on the cancer cells but also the healthy cells of the body, leading to undesirable side effects. Analyzing the influence of chemotherapy effects of cancer patients from a hospital in Caxias do Sul, this  was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The study population consists of patients diagnosed with cancer and in outpatient chemotherapy treatment during the period of data collection (June to September 2016). As a data collection instrument,  the Portuguese version of the Subjective Global Assessment was used - Produced by the Patient. Information regarding the patients’ general data (age, gender, previous and current weight, and height), type of tumor, clinical stage of the disease, was gathered from the patients' records. The data were analyzed descriptively in Microsoft® Excel software and presented through absolute (n) and relative (%) frequency. 42 patients, with a prevalence of the female gender, were evaluated. The main side effects were oral, gastrointestinal, systemic and inappetence symptoms, with most of the patients reporting these symptoms concomitantly. Only 11.9% of the patients reported no side effects of chemotherapy treatment. Patients classified as overweight and well- nourished were the ones that reported the most side effects. The side effects of chemotherapy have been shown, and the main symptoms were the ones related to the oral and gastrointestinal tract, which can directly affect the patients’ nutritional status. Keywords: Chemotherapy. Cancer. Nutritional Status.


Author(s):  
Chiara Achangwa ◽  
Tae-Jun Lee ◽  
Moo-Sik Lee

Vaccination against COVID-19 is an important strategy for its control. Assessing the willingness to accept the COVID-19 vaccine in different subgroups is important for an inclusive vaccination program design. Our aim was to determine the COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rate and associated factors among foreigners in South Korea. An online cross-sectional study was carried out from May to June 2021. In this study, 710 individuals participated and most were aged between 26 and 29 (36.1%) years. Overall, 70.8% were willing to receive the vaccine. Males were less likely to accept the vaccine than females (OR: 0.5; 95% CI: 0.4–0.7, p < 0.001). Single people were more likely to receive the vaccine than those who were married (OR:1.4; 95% CI: 0.9–2.0, p = 0.04). Other factors associated with willingness to accept COVID-19 vaccine were; vaccine convenience (OR:1.7; 95% CI:1.2–2.3, p = 0.002), doctors’ recommendation (OR: 2.8; 95% CI: 2.0–3.9, p< 0.001), vaccine price (OR: 1.7; 95% CI: 1.2–2.3, p = 0.003), vaccine effectiveness (OR: 8.3; 95% CI: 5.8–12.1, p< 0.001), vaccine importance (OR: 7.9; 95% CI: 4.6–14.1, p< 0.001), and vaccine safety (OR: 6.9; 95% CI: 4.5–10.8, p < 0.001). Providing more information on vaccine safety and effectiveness is required to increase vaccine acceptance.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 2276
Author(s):  
Van D. Tran ◽  
Tatiana V. Pak ◽  
Elena I. Gribkova ◽  
Galina A. Galkina ◽  
Ekaterina E. Loskutova ◽  
...  

Background: COVID-19 vaccine development is proceeding at an unprecedented pace. Once COVID-19 vaccines become widely available, it will be necessary to maximize public vaccine acceptance and coverage. Objective: This research aimed to analyze the predictors of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Russia. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted among Russian adults from September 26th to November 9th, 2020. Predictors of the intent to take up COVID-19 vaccination were explored using logistic regression. Results: Out of 876 participants, 365 (41.7%) would be willing to receive the vaccine if it became available. Acceptance increased for a vaccine with verified safety and effectiveness (63.2%). Intention to receive the COVID-19 vaccine was relatively higher among males (aOR=2.37, 95% CI 1.41-4.00), people with lower monthly income (aOR=2.94, 95%CI 1.32-6.57), and with positive trust in the healthcare system (aOR=2.73, 95% CI 1.76-4.24). The Russian people were more likely to accept the COVID-19 vaccine if they believed that the vaccine reduces the risk of virus infection (aOR=8.80, 95%CI 5.21-14.87) or relieves the complications of the disease (aOR=10.46, 95%CI 6.09-17.96). Other barriers such as being unconcerned about side-effects (aOR=1.65, 95%CI 1.03-2.65) and the effectiveness and safety of the vaccination (aOR=2.55, 95%CI 1.60-4.08), also affected acceptance. Conclusions: The study showed the usefulness of the health belief model constructs in understanding the COVID-19 vaccination acceptance rate in the Russian population. This rate was influenced by sociodemographic and health-related characteristics, and health beliefs. These findings might help guide future efforts for policymakers and stakeholders to improve vaccination rates by enhancing trust in the healthcare system.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Yasir Ahmed Mohammed Elhadi ◽  
Azza Mehanna ◽  
Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi ◽  
Haider M. El Saeh ◽  
Saddam Abdulhakem Alnahari ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND: Willingness of healthcare workers to be vaccinated is an important factor to be considered for a successful COVID-19 vaccination programme. This study aims to understand the willingness of health workers to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and its associated concerns across 10 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). METHOD: A cross-sectional study was conducted in January 2021 among healthcare workers in EMR using an online survey. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS software package version 20.0. RESULTS: A total of 2806 health workers (physicians, nurses and pharmacists) completed and returned the informed consent along with the questionnaire electronically. More than half of the respondents (58.0%) were willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, even if the vaccination is not mandatory for them. On the other hand, 25.7% of respondents were not willing to take COVID-19 vaccine while 16.3 % were undecided. The top three reasons for not willing to be vaccinated were unreliability of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials (62.0%), fear of the side effects of the vaccine (45.3%), and that COVID-19 vaccine will not give immunity for a long period of time (23.1%). CONCLUSION: Overall, the study revealed suboptimal acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine among the respondents in the EMR. Significant refusal of COVID-19 vaccine among healthcare professionals can reverse hard-won progress in building public trust in vaccination program. The findings suggest the need to develop tailored strategies to address concerns identified in the study in order to ensure optimal vaccine acceptance among healthcare workers in the EMR.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document