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Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy

Researchers have been working quickly and collaboratively for the development of vaccines against the COVID-19 virus. The effort of the scientific community in searching a vaccine for COVID-19 may be hampered by a diffused vaccine hesitancy. Two waves of data collection on representative samples of...

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Autores principales: Palamenghi, Lorenzo, Barello, Serena, Boccia, Stefania, Graffigna, Guendalina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7431109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32808095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-020-00675-8
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author Palamenghi, Lorenzo
Barello, Serena
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Graffigna, Guendalina
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description Researchers have been working quickly and collaboratively for the development of vaccines against the COVID-19 virus. The effort of the scientific community in searching a vaccine for COVID-19 may be hampered by a diffused vaccine hesitancy. Two waves of data collection on representative samples of the Italian population (during the “first” and “second” phase of the Italian Covid-19 mitigation strategy) were conducted to understand citizens’ perceptions and behaviors about preventive behaviors willingness to vaccine for COVID-19. Our study shows that willingness to COVID-19 vaccine is correlated to trust in research and in vaccines, which decreased between phase 1 and phase 2 of the Italian pandemic. According to the results of our study, the proportion of citizens that seem to be intentioned to get the Covid-19 vaccine is probably too small to effectively stop the spreading of the disease. This requires to foster a climate of respectful mutual trust between science and society, where scientific knowledge is not only preached but also cultivated and sustained thanks to the emphatic understanding of citizens worries, needs of reassurance and health expectations.
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spelling pubmed-74311092020-08-18 Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy Palamenghi, Lorenzo Barello, Serena Boccia, Stefania Graffigna, Guendalina Eur J Epidemiol Vaccine Hesitancy Researchers have been working quickly and collaboratively for the development of vaccines against the COVID-19 virus. The effort of the scientific community in searching a vaccine for COVID-19 may be hampered by a diffused vaccine hesitancy. Two waves of data collection on representative samples of the Italian population (during the “first” and “second” phase of the Italian Covid-19 mitigation strategy) were conducted to understand citizens’ perceptions and behaviors about preventive behaviors willingness to vaccine for COVID-19. Our study shows that willingness to COVID-19 vaccine is correlated to trust in research and in vaccines, which decreased between phase 1 and phase 2 of the Italian pandemic. According to the results of our study, the proportion of citizens that seem to be intentioned to get the Covid-19 vaccine is probably too small to effectively stop the spreading of the disease. This requires to foster a climate of respectful mutual trust between science and society, where scientific knowledge is not only preached but also cultivated and sustained thanks to the emphatic understanding of citizens worries, needs of reassurance and health expectations. Springer Netherlands 2020-08-17 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7431109/ /pubmed/32808095 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-020-00675-8 Text en © Springer Nature B.V. 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy
title Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy
title_full Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy
title_fullStr Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy
title_full_unstemmed Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy
title_short Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy
title_sort mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against covid-19 in italy
topic Vaccine Hesitancy
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7431109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32808095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10654-020-00675-8
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