‘Vaccine hesitancy’ among university students in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic

The debate around vaccines has been in the spotlight over the last few years in Europe, both within the scientific community and the general public debate. In this regard, the case of the Italian vaccination debate is particularly worrying given that Italy has been one of the European countries with...

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Vydáno v:European journal of epidemiology Ročník 35; číslo 8; s. 781 - 783
Hlavní autoři: Barello, Serena, Nania, Tiziana, Dellafiore, Federica, Graffigna, Guendalina, Caruso, Rosario
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.08.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Témata:
Betacoronavirus
Cardiology
Colleges & universities
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections - psychology
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 Vaccines
Cross-Sectional Studies
Curricula
Epidemiology
Europe
Health care
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Immunization
Infectious Diseases
Intention
Italy - epidemiology
Measles
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Motivation
Oncology
Pandemics
Pandemics - prevention & control
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Psychological factors
Public Health
SARS-CoV-2
Students
Students - psychology
Students - statistics & numerical data
Universities
University students
Vaccination - psychology
Vaccine Hesitancy
Vaccines
Viral Vaccines - administration & dosage
Viral Vaccines - adverse effects
Italy
Europe
COVID-19
Vaccine hesitancy
ISSN:0393-2990, 1573-7284, 1573-7284
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Shrnutí:The debate around vaccines has been in the spotlight over the last few years in Europe, both within the scientific community and the general public debate. In this regard, the case of the Italian vaccination debate is particularly worrying given that Italy has been one of the European countries with the highest number of measles cases in the recent past. According to this scenario, we conducted a cross-sectional study on a convenience sample of Italian university students aimed at: (1) exploring their attitudes towards a future vaccine to prevent COVID-19 and; (2) evaluating the impact of the university curricula (healthcare vs. non-healthcare curricula) on the intention to vaccinate. Descriptive analysis on the 735 students that answered to the question on the intention to vaccinate showed that 633 (86.1%) students reported that they would choose to have a vaccination for the COVID-19 coronavirus; on the other side, 102 (13.9%) students reported that they would not or be not sure to vaccine (low intention to vaccinate). This means that in our sample more than one student out of 10 shows low intention to vaccinate (vaccine hesitancy). Furthermore, when running analysis comparing healthcare students versus non-healthcare students we found no significant differences in responses’ percentage distribution ( p  = .097). Understanding the student’s perspective about the future COVID-19 vaccine and supporting their health engagement and consciousness may be useful in planning adequate response and multidisciplinary educational strategies—including the psychological perspective on vaccine hesitancy underlying factors - in the post-pandemic period.
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ISSN:0393-2990
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DOI:10.1007/s10654-020-00670-z