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Active Medical Learner Engagement Results in the Discovery That One Size Does Not Fit All in Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Vaccine hesitancy is an ongoing public health concern defined as the refusal of a vaccine that is readily available. Therefore, we developed a project to explore why patients in a safety net medical center were hesitant or refused the COVID-19 vaccine. The project was conducted by healthcare learner...

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Autores principales: Salari, Arash, Singh, Manpreet K., Ayouby, Shuja, George, Sanmisola, Nguyen, Kimngan, Peverini, Guillermo Daniel, Lam, Nicolette, Allison-Aipa, Timothy, Zamarripa, Susanna, Tsang, Shunling, Firek, Anthony
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10385578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37514956
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11071140
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author Salari, Arash
Singh, Manpreet K.
Ayouby, Shuja
George, Sanmisola
Nguyen, Kimngan
Peverini, Guillermo Daniel
Lam, Nicolette
Allison-Aipa, Timothy
Zamarripa, Susanna
Tsang, Shunling
Firek, Anthony
author_facet Salari, Arash
Singh, Manpreet K.
Ayouby, Shuja
George, Sanmisola
Nguyen, Kimngan
Peverini, Guillermo Daniel
Lam, Nicolette
Allison-Aipa, Timothy
Zamarripa, Susanna
Tsang, Shunling
Firek, Anthony
author_sort Salari, Arash
collection PubMed
description Vaccine hesitancy is an ongoing public health concern defined as the refusal of a vaccine that is readily available. Therefore, we developed a project to explore why patients in a safety net medical center were hesitant or refused the COVID-19 vaccine. The project was conducted by healthcare learners to promote “learning by doing”. Responses were collected through a previously developed and ongoing survey among both hospitalized and ambulatory patients that had no previous history of COVID-19 infection, were currently infected, or had recovered from COVID-19. Results were analyzed using a priori power analysis and Chi-squared test. We discovered that different self-reported ethnic groups had different reasons for vaccine hesitancy; specifically, 69% of Black/African American respondents stated that their main reason for hesitancy was vaccine safety compared to 13.9% of non-Hispanic Whites (p = 0.005). Furthermore, our cohort was significantly more likely to disagree rather than agree with the statement: “getting vaccinated is important for the health of others in my community”(p = 0.016). The learners discovered that a more specific approach to vaccine education would be required to understand and overcome vaccine hesitancy in our cohort of socioeconomic and ethnically diverse groups.
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spelling pubmed-103855782023-07-30 Active Medical Learner Engagement Results in the Discovery That One Size Does Not Fit All in Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Salari, Arash Singh, Manpreet K. Ayouby, Shuja George, Sanmisola Nguyen, Kimngan Peverini, Guillermo Daniel Lam, Nicolette Allison-Aipa, Timothy Zamarripa, Susanna Tsang, Shunling Firek, Anthony Vaccines (Basel) Article Vaccine hesitancy is an ongoing public health concern defined as the refusal of a vaccine that is readily available. Therefore, we developed a project to explore why patients in a safety net medical center were hesitant or refused the COVID-19 vaccine. The project was conducted by healthcare learners to promote “learning by doing”. Responses were collected through a previously developed and ongoing survey among both hospitalized and ambulatory patients that had no previous history of COVID-19 infection, were currently infected, or had recovered from COVID-19. Results were analyzed using a priori power analysis and Chi-squared test. We discovered that different self-reported ethnic groups had different reasons for vaccine hesitancy; specifically, 69% of Black/African American respondents stated that their main reason for hesitancy was vaccine safety compared to 13.9% of non-Hispanic Whites (p = 0.005). Furthermore, our cohort was significantly more likely to disagree rather than agree with the statement: “getting vaccinated is important for the health of others in my community”(p = 0.016). The learners discovered that a more specific approach to vaccine education would be required to understand and overcome vaccine hesitancy in our cohort of socioeconomic and ethnically diverse groups. MDPI 2023-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10385578/ /pubmed/37514956 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11071140 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Salari, Arash
Singh, Manpreet K.
Ayouby, Shuja
George, Sanmisola
Nguyen, Kimngan
Peverini, Guillermo Daniel
Lam, Nicolette
Allison-Aipa, Timothy
Zamarripa, Susanna
Tsang, Shunling
Firek, Anthony
Active Medical Learner Engagement Results in the Discovery That One Size Does Not Fit All in Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
title Active Medical Learner Engagement Results in the Discovery That One Size Does Not Fit All in Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
title_full Active Medical Learner Engagement Results in the Discovery That One Size Does Not Fit All in Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
title_fullStr Active Medical Learner Engagement Results in the Discovery That One Size Does Not Fit All in Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
title_full_unstemmed Active Medical Learner Engagement Results in the Discovery That One Size Does Not Fit All in Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
title_short Active Medical Learner Engagement Results in the Discovery That One Size Does Not Fit All in Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
title_sort active medical learner engagement results in the discovery that one size does not fit all in overcoming covid-19 vaccine hesitancy
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10385578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37514956
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11071140
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