Willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19: An exploratory online survey in a Portuguese cohort of multiple sclerosis patients

BACKGROUND: Little is known about MS patients’ acceptability of a COVID-19 vaccine. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: An online survey was conducted among MS patients to study COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and its associated factors. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Among 256 participants, 80.9% of the patients were e...

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Autores principales: Serrazina, Filipa, Sobral Pinho, André, Cabral, Gonçalo, Salavisa, Manuel, Correia, Ana Sofia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7932878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33740481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2021.102880
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author Serrazina, Filipa
Sobral Pinho, André
Cabral, Gonçalo
Salavisa, Manuel
Correia, Ana Sofia
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description BACKGROUND: Little is known about MS patients’ acceptability of a COVID-19 vaccine. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: An online survey was conducted among MS patients to study COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and its associated factors. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Among 256 participants, 80.9% of the patients were either definitely or probably willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Most hesitant patients would consider being vaccinated under physician recommendation. Older patients and those with comorbidities seem to be more willing to get vaccinated. Moreover, vaccine acceptability was associated with participants’ convictions and concerns about COVID-19, as well as previous vaccination practices.
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spelling pubmed-79328782021-03-05 Willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19: An exploratory online survey in a Portuguese cohort of multiple sclerosis patients Serrazina, Filipa Sobral Pinho, André Cabral, Gonçalo Salavisa, Manuel Correia, Ana Sofia Mult Scler Relat Disord Article BACKGROUND: Little is known about MS patients’ acceptability of a COVID-19 vaccine. OBJECTIVE AND METHODS: An online survey was conducted among MS patients to study COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and its associated factors. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Among 256 participants, 80.9% of the patients were either definitely or probably willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Most hesitant patients would consider being vaccinated under physician recommendation. Older patients and those with comorbidities seem to be more willing to get vaccinated. Moreover, vaccine acceptability was associated with participants’ convictions and concerns about COVID-19, as well as previous vaccination practices. Elsevier B.V. 2021-06 2021-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7932878/ /pubmed/33740481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2021.102880 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7932878/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.msard.2021.102880
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