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Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study

Using a cross-sectional online survey we investigated knowledge, attitudes, and risk perception about COVID-19 vaccination and identified factors influencing vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students from October 2021 to January 2022. We analysed data from 1114 health professional...

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Autores principales: Chen, Yingyan, Prichard, Roslyn, Mason, Matt, Tower, Marion, Zimmerman, Peta-Anne, Sparke, Vanessa, Layh, Janice, Mehdi, Ahmed M., Lin, Frances Fengzhi
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Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10485127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37330562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00422-9
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author Chen, Yingyan
Prichard, Roslyn
Mason, Matt
Tower, Marion
Zimmerman, Peta-Anne
Sparke, Vanessa
Layh, Janice
Mehdi, Ahmed M.
Lin, Frances Fengzhi
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Prichard, Roslyn
Mason, Matt
Tower, Marion
Zimmerman, Peta-Anne
Sparke, Vanessa
Layh, Janice
Mehdi, Ahmed M.
Lin, Frances Fengzhi
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description Using a cross-sectional online survey we investigated knowledge, attitudes, and risk perception about COVID-19 vaccination and identified factors influencing vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students from October 2021 to January 2022. We analysed data from 1114 health professional students from 17 Australian universities. Most participants were enrolled in nursing programs (n = 958, 86.8%), and 91.6% (n = 858) of the participants received COVID-19 vaccination. Approximately 27% believed COVID-19 was no more serious than seasonal influenza and that they had a low risk of acquiring COVID-19. Nearly 20% disagreed that COVID-19 vaccines in Australia were safe and perceived they were at higher-risk of acquiring COVID infection than the general population. Higher-risk perception viewing vaccination as their professional responsibility, and vaccine mandate strongly predicted vaccination behaviour. Participants consider COVID-19 information from health professionals, government websites, and World Health Organization as the most trusted information sources. The findings highlight that healthcare decision-makers and university administrators need to monitor students’ hesitancy with vaccination to improve students’ promotion of the vaccination to the general population. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41271-023-00422-9.
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spelling pubmed-104851272023-09-09 Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study Chen, Yingyan Prichard, Roslyn Mason, Matt Tower, Marion Zimmerman, Peta-Anne Sparke, Vanessa Layh, Janice Mehdi, Ahmed M. Lin, Frances Fengzhi J Public Health Policy Original Article Using a cross-sectional online survey we investigated knowledge, attitudes, and risk perception about COVID-19 vaccination and identified factors influencing vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students from October 2021 to January 2022. We analysed data from 1114 health professional students from 17 Australian universities. Most participants were enrolled in nursing programs (n = 958, 86.8%), and 91.6% (n = 858) of the participants received COVID-19 vaccination. Approximately 27% believed COVID-19 was no more serious than seasonal influenza and that they had a low risk of acquiring COVID-19. Nearly 20% disagreed that COVID-19 vaccines in Australia were safe and perceived they were at higher-risk of acquiring COVID infection than the general population. Higher-risk perception viewing vaccination as their professional responsibility, and vaccine mandate strongly predicted vaccination behaviour. Participants consider COVID-19 information from health professionals, government websites, and World Health Organization as the most trusted information sources. The findings highlight that healthcare decision-makers and university administrators need to monitor students’ hesitancy with vaccination to improve students’ promotion of the vaccination to the general population. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41271-023-00422-9. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2023-06-18 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10485127/ /pubmed/37330562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00422-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Chen, Yingyan
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Tower, Marion
Zimmerman, Peta-Anne
Sparke, Vanessa
Layh, Janice
Mehdi, Ahmed M.
Lin, Frances Fengzhi
Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study
title Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study
title_full Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study
title_fullStr Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study
title_full_unstemmed Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study
title_short Barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study
title_sort barriers and facilitators to covid-19 vaccine uptake among australian health professional students during the pandemic: a nationwide study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10485127/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37330562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41271-023-00422-9
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