COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among College Students at a Midwest University
| Autor: | Amy J Wotring, Matthew Hutchins, Shiaw-Fen Ferng, Maureen K. Johnson, Heather Pfrank, Linda S. Behrendt, Cassondra Strawser, Matthew Warner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Original Paper
Government 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak medicine.medical_specialty COVID-19 Vaccines Health (social science) Universities Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) SARS-CoV-2 business.industry Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Vaccination Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health COVID-19 Family medicine Humans Medicine College students Students business Vaccine hesitancy |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Community Health |
| ISSN: | 1573-3610 0094-5145 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10900-021-01051-7 |
| Popis: | COVID-19 is responsible for over 750,000 Americans deaths. Despite efforts to vaccinate, many college students are hesitant. Hesitancy has hindered efforts to achieve high COVID-19 vaccination rates. Students at a Midwest university completed an online survey. Questions included COVID-19 vaccination intent and behavior. Over 1600 students participated. Half reported being vaccinated. Of those not vaccinated, 49% did not intend to get vaccinated, and 22% were undecided. Reasons for hesitancy included not trusting the vaccine was fully tested (85%), fear of potential side effects (78%), not trusting the vaccine is safe (72%), not trusting the US government (61%), and having read negative reports from the media about the vaccine (60%). Additionally, students were concerned the vaccine was not safe (B = − 0.902; 95% Χ2 = 11.68; p = 0.001) and that it could not protect them from COVID-19 (B = − 0.834; Χ2 = 12.43; p |
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