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Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations
PURPOSE: Young adults have the highest cumulative incidence of COVID-19 infection in the country. Using March 2021 Household Pulse Survey data, an ongoing, cross-sectional nationally representative survey, we examined U.S. young adult intention to accept COVID-19 vaccines. METHODS: Young adult (ages...
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Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34274212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.06.003 |
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author | Adams, Sally H. Schaub, Jason P. Nagata, Jason M. Park, M. Jane Brindis, Claire D. Irwin, Charles E. |
author_facet | Adams, Sally H. Schaub, Jason P. Nagata, Jason M. Park, M. Jane Brindis, Claire D. Irwin, Charles E. |
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description | PURPOSE: Young adults have the highest cumulative incidence of COVID-19 infection in the country. Using March 2021 Household Pulse Survey data, an ongoing, cross-sectional nationally representative survey, we examined U.S. young adult intention to accept COVID-19 vaccines. METHODS: Young adult (ages 18–25 years) Household Pulse Survey participants were queried on intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and related perspectives (N = 5,082). RESULTS: Most unvaccinated respondents (76%) indicated an intention to become vaccinated. The most frequently cited reasons for potentially rejecting vaccination included desire to wait and see if the vaccine is safe (56%); concerns over side effects (53%); and believing others are in greater need of the vaccine (44%). CONCLUSIONS: With 24% of young adults hesitant to accept a COVID-19 vaccine, public health interventions should target reasons for hesitancy, address concerns about safety and side effects, and underscore the importance of vaccinations for this population. |
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spelling | pubmed-82779802021-07-14 Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations Adams, Sally H. Schaub, Jason P. Nagata, Jason M. Park, M. Jane Brindis, Claire D. Irwin, Charles E. J Adolesc Health Adolescent Health Brief PURPOSE: Young adults have the highest cumulative incidence of COVID-19 infection in the country. Using March 2021 Household Pulse Survey data, an ongoing, cross-sectional nationally representative survey, we examined U.S. young adult intention to accept COVID-19 vaccines. METHODS: Young adult (ages 18–25 years) Household Pulse Survey participants were queried on intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and related perspectives (N = 5,082). RESULTS: Most unvaccinated respondents (76%) indicated an intention to become vaccinated. The most frequently cited reasons for potentially rejecting vaccination included desire to wait and see if the vaccine is safe (56%); concerns over side effects (53%); and believing others are in greater need of the vaccine (44%). CONCLUSIONS: With 24% of young adults hesitant to accept a COVID-19 vaccine, public health interventions should target reasons for hesitancy, address concerns about safety and side effects, and underscore the importance of vaccinations for this population. Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 2021-09 2021-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8277980/ /pubmed/34274212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.06.003 Text en © 2021 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 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. |
spellingShingle | Adolescent Health Brief Adams, Sally H. Schaub, Jason P. Nagata, Jason M. Park, M. Jane Brindis, Claire D. Irwin, Charles E. Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations |
title | Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations |
title_full | Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations |
title_fullStr | Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations |
title_full_unstemmed | Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations |
title_short | Young Adult Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccinations |
title_sort | young adult perspectives on covid-19 vaccinations |
topic | Adolescent Health Brief |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277980/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34274212 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.06.003 |
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