High but slightly declining COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and reasons for vaccine acceptance, Finland April to December 2020

We investigated likelihood to vaccinate and reasons for and against accepting a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine among adult residents of Finland. Vaccine acceptance declined from 70% in April to 64% in December 2020. Complacency and worry about side effects were main reasons against vacc...

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Autores principales: Hammer, Charlotte C., Cristea, Veronica, Dub, Timothee, Sivelä, Jonas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8134886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33972001
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001114
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description We investigated likelihood to vaccinate and reasons for and against accepting a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine among adult residents of Finland. Vaccine acceptance declined from 70% in April to 64% in December 2020. Complacency and worry about side effects were main reasons against vaccination while concern about severe disease was a strong motive for vaccination. Convenience of vaccination and recommendations by healthcare workers were identified as enablers for vaccination among those aged under 50 years. Understanding barriers and enablers behind vaccine acceptance is decisive in ensuring a successful implementation of COVID-19 vaccination programmes, which will be key to ending the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-81348862021-05-21 High but slightly declining COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and reasons for vaccine acceptance, Finland April to December 2020 Hammer, Charlotte C. Cristea, Veronica Dub, Timothee Sivelä, Jonas Epidemiol Infect From the Field We investigated likelihood to vaccinate and reasons for and against accepting a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine among adult residents of Finland. Vaccine acceptance declined from 70% in April to 64% in December 2020. Complacency and worry about side effects were main reasons against vaccination while concern about severe disease was a strong motive for vaccination. Convenience of vaccination and recommendations by healthcare workers were identified as enablers for vaccination among those aged under 50 years. Understanding barriers and enablers behind vaccine acceptance is decisive in ensuring a successful implementation of COVID-19 vaccination programmes, which will be key to ending the pandemic. Cambridge University Press 2021-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8134886/ /pubmed/33972001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268821001114 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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High but slightly declining COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and reasons for vaccine acceptance, Finland April to December 2020
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title_short High but slightly declining COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and reasons for vaccine acceptance, Finland April to December 2020
title_sort high but slightly declining covid-19 vaccine acceptance and reasons for vaccine acceptance, finland april to december 2020
topic From the Field
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8134886/
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