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The State of Vaccine Confidence in Poland: A 2019 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey
Vaccination is considered as one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions. This study aimed to assess (1) the attitudes and behaviors towards mandatory childhood vaccination, with particular emphasis on socio-economic factors determining the vaccine confidence among adul...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345001/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32599943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124565 |
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author | Furman, Filip M. Zgliczyński, Wojciech Stefan Jankowski, Mateusz Baran, Tomasz Szumowski, Łukasz Pinkas, Jarosław |
author_facet | Furman, Filip M. Zgliczyński, Wojciech Stefan Jankowski, Mateusz Baran, Tomasz Szumowski, Łukasz Pinkas, Jarosław |
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description | Vaccination is considered as one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions. This study aimed to assess (1) the attitudes and behaviors towards mandatory childhood vaccination, with particular emphasis on socio-economic factors determining the vaccine confidence among adults in Poland as well as to (2) identify the potential impact of anti-vaccination movement on vaccination coverage among children and adolescents aged ≤19 years. This cross-sectional study was carried in 2019 on a nationwide, representative sample of 1079 individuals aged 18 and over in Poland (53.7% females). Most of the respondents (74.6%) agreed or strongly agreed that mandatory vaccinations are safe, and only 8% of participants neglected the safety of vaccines. The results of multivariate analysis showed that the lowest level of vaccine confidence was observed among participants aged 25–34 years (aOR: 0.48, 95%CI: 0.29–0.80; p = 0.01). There was a positive correlation (r = 0.35; p < 0.001) between trust in doctors and vaccine confidence. Moreover, there was a positive correlation between trust in scientific knowledge and vaccine confidence (r = 0.19; p < 0.001). Also, a negative correlation (r = −0.13; p < 0.001) between trust in horoscopes and vaccine confidence was observed. Most of the parents declared (97.7%), that their children were vaccinated following the national immunization programme. However, 8.5% of parents who currently vaccinated their children declared that they would stop vaccinating children when vaccination obligation will be abolished. This study demonstrates relatively high confidence in mandatory vaccination among adults in Poland. While most of society trusts in vaccine safety, young adults are the least trustful of vaccinations. |
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spelling | pubmed-73450012020-07-09 The State of Vaccine Confidence in Poland: A 2019 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey Furman, Filip M. Zgliczyński, Wojciech Stefan Jankowski, Mateusz Baran, Tomasz Szumowski, Łukasz Pinkas, Jarosław Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Vaccination is considered as one of the most successful and cost-effective public health interventions. This study aimed to assess (1) the attitudes and behaviors towards mandatory childhood vaccination, with particular emphasis on socio-economic factors determining the vaccine confidence among adults in Poland as well as to (2) identify the potential impact of anti-vaccination movement on vaccination coverage among children and adolescents aged ≤19 years. This cross-sectional study was carried in 2019 on a nationwide, representative sample of 1079 individuals aged 18 and over in Poland (53.7% females). Most of the respondents (74.6%) agreed or strongly agreed that mandatory vaccinations are safe, and only 8% of participants neglected the safety of vaccines. The results of multivariate analysis showed that the lowest level of vaccine confidence was observed among participants aged 25–34 years (aOR: 0.48, 95%CI: 0.29–0.80; p = 0.01). There was a positive correlation (r = 0.35; p < 0.001) between trust in doctors and vaccine confidence. Moreover, there was a positive correlation between trust in scientific knowledge and vaccine confidence (r = 0.19; p < 0.001). Also, a negative correlation (r = −0.13; p < 0.001) between trust in horoscopes and vaccine confidence was observed. Most of the parents declared (97.7%), that their children were vaccinated following the national immunization programme. However, 8.5% of parents who currently vaccinated their children declared that they would stop vaccinating children when vaccination obligation will be abolished. This study demonstrates relatively high confidence in mandatory vaccination among adults in Poland. While most of society trusts in vaccine safety, young adults are the least trustful of vaccinations. MDPI 2020-06-24 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7345001/ /pubmed/32599943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124565 Text en © 2020 by the authors. 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 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Furman, Filip M. Zgliczyński, Wojciech Stefan Jankowski, Mateusz Baran, Tomasz Szumowski, Łukasz Pinkas, Jarosław The State of Vaccine Confidence in Poland: A 2019 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey |
title | The State of Vaccine Confidence in Poland: A 2019 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_full | The State of Vaccine Confidence in Poland: A 2019 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_fullStr | The State of Vaccine Confidence in Poland: A 2019 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_full_unstemmed | The State of Vaccine Confidence in Poland: A 2019 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_short | The State of Vaccine Confidence in Poland: A 2019 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey |
title_sort | state of vaccine confidence in poland: a 2019 nationwide cross-sectional survey |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7345001/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32599943 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17124565 |
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