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Factors Influencing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in a Population-Based Sample in Italy

Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 represents an effective and safe tool to protect the population against the disease; however, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy could be a major barrier to achieving herd immunity. Despite the severity of the current pandemic, the population’s intention to get vaccinated agai...

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Autores principales: Del Riccio, Marco, Boccalini, Sara, Rigon, Lisa, Biamonte, Massimiliano Alberto, Albora, Giuseppe, Giorgetti, Duccio, Bonanni, Paolo, Bechini, Angela
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8228124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34200656
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9060633
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author Del Riccio, Marco
Boccalini, Sara
Rigon, Lisa
Biamonte, Massimiliano Alberto
Albora, Giuseppe
Giorgetti, Duccio
Bonanni, Paolo
Bechini, Angela
author_facet Del Riccio, Marco
Boccalini, Sara
Rigon, Lisa
Biamonte, Massimiliano Alberto
Albora, Giuseppe
Giorgetti, Duccio
Bonanni, Paolo
Bechini, Angela
author_sort Del Riccio, Marco
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description Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 represents an effective and safe tool to protect the population against the disease; however, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy could be a major barrier to achieving herd immunity. Despite the severity of the current pandemic, the population’s intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is still not clear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19 among a convenience sample of the general population resident in Italy and the factors associated with hesitancy and acceptance of the vaccine in the context of the current pandemic before the rolling out of COVID-19 vaccines. An anonymous online survey was diffused among a general adult population living in Italy. Participants aged 18 or older and living in Italy were considered eligible. Incomplete questionnaires were excluded. Overall, 7605 valid questionnaires were collected. Most of the participants (81.9%) were inclined to get vaccinated; male sex (OR 1.38, 95% CI 1.12–1.71), a high level of trust in institutions (OR 3.93, 95% CI 2.04–7.83), and personal beliefs about high safety of COVID-19 vaccines (OR 56.33, 95% CI 31.57–105.87) were found to be among the significant predictors of COVID-19 acceptance. These data could help design larger studies to address the problem of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the current pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-82281242021-06-26 Factors Influencing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in a Population-Based Sample in Italy Del Riccio, Marco Boccalini, Sara Rigon, Lisa Biamonte, Massimiliano Alberto Albora, Giuseppe Giorgetti, Duccio Bonanni, Paolo Bechini, Angela Vaccines (Basel) Article Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 represents an effective and safe tool to protect the population against the disease; however, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy could be a major barrier to achieving herd immunity. Despite the severity of the current pandemic, the population’s intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is still not clear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19 among a convenience sample of the general population resident in Italy and the factors associated with hesitancy and acceptance of the vaccine in the context of the current pandemic before the rolling out of COVID-19 vaccines. An anonymous online survey was diffused among a general adult population living in Italy. Participants aged 18 or older and living in Italy were considered eligible. Incomplete questionnaires were excluded. Overall, 7605 valid questionnaires were collected. Most of the participants (81.9%) were inclined to get vaccinated; male sex (OR 1.38, 95% CI 1.12–1.71), a high level of trust in institutions (OR 3.93, 95% CI 2.04–7.83), and personal beliefs about high safety of COVID-19 vaccines (OR 56.33, 95% CI 31.57–105.87) were found to be among the significant predictors of COVID-19 acceptance. These data could help design larger studies to address the problem of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the current pandemic. MDPI 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8228124/ /pubmed/34200656 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9060633 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Del Riccio, Marco
Boccalini, Sara
Rigon, Lisa
Biamonte, Massimiliano Alberto
Albora, Giuseppe
Giorgetti, Duccio
Bonanni, Paolo
Bechini, Angela
Factors Influencing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in a Population-Based Sample in Italy
title Factors Influencing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in a Population-Based Sample in Italy
title_full Factors Influencing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in a Population-Based Sample in Italy
title_fullStr Factors Influencing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in a Population-Based Sample in Italy
title_full_unstemmed Factors Influencing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in a Population-Based Sample in Italy
title_short Factors Influencing SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in a Population-Based Sample in Italy
title_sort factors influencing sars-cov-2 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy in a population-based sample in italy
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8228124/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34200656
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9060633
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