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Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey
Countermeasures against the spread of COVID-19 have become an urgent issue in educational settings, where many group activities are necessary. Educators are key to preventing the spread of COVID-19 in educational settings. Infection prevention behavior requires comprehensive and complex measures suc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34543315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257552 |
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description | Countermeasures against the spread of COVID-19 have become an urgent issue in educational settings, where many group activities are necessary. Educators are key to preventing the spread of COVID-19 in educational settings. Infection prevention behavior requires comprehensive and complex measures such as self-restraint. disinfection care, hand washing, wearing masks and recommendation and implementation of vaccination. Improvement in the knowledge, skills, and preventive actions of educators vis-à-vis COVID-19 could allow for the continued provision of educational services while ensuring safety in educational settings. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore the knowledge and preventive actions of educators regarding COVID-19 and vaccination awareness to provide appropriate support for educators. The study used data collected from 1,000 Japanese educators in January 2021 when the third wave of viral infections spread. Online surveys and multivariate linear regression analysis were used to determine age and whether respondents were being cared for by a doctor. We investigated the effects of factors on educators’ willingness to be vaccinated and changes in their behavior. This study found that factors such as age, gender, whether a respondent was under a physician’s care, and health literacy, affected the willingness of educators to receive vaccinations and engage in preventive actions. The study also suggests that the reliability of national government public relations efforts is lower than the reliability of local government public relations and that of information from family physicians, pharmacies, and mass media. It is therefore necessary to reexamine how information is disseminated by the national government and to increase the degree of trust in that information among the public. The findings of the study also revealed the importance of improving the provision of appropriate information and health literacy for the behavior of educators, not only during the initial outbreak, but also during the subsequent period of pandemic life. |
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spelling | pubmed-84519972021-09-21 Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey Fukuda, Yasue Ando, Shuji Fukuda, Koji PLoS One Research Article Countermeasures against the spread of COVID-19 have become an urgent issue in educational settings, where many group activities are necessary. Educators are key to preventing the spread of COVID-19 in educational settings. Infection prevention behavior requires comprehensive and complex measures such as self-restraint. disinfection care, hand washing, wearing masks and recommendation and implementation of vaccination. Improvement in the knowledge, skills, and preventive actions of educators vis-à-vis COVID-19 could allow for the continued provision of educational services while ensuring safety in educational settings. Therefore, the objective of this study was to explore the knowledge and preventive actions of educators regarding COVID-19 and vaccination awareness to provide appropriate support for educators. The study used data collected from 1,000 Japanese educators in January 2021 when the third wave of viral infections spread. Online surveys and multivariate linear regression analysis were used to determine age and whether respondents were being cared for by a doctor. We investigated the effects of factors on educators’ willingness to be vaccinated and changes in their behavior. This study found that factors such as age, gender, whether a respondent was under a physician’s care, and health literacy, affected the willingness of educators to receive vaccinations and engage in preventive actions. The study also suggests that the reliability of national government public relations efforts is lower than the reliability of local government public relations and that of information from family physicians, pharmacies, and mass media. It is therefore necessary to reexamine how information is disseminated by the national government and to increase the degree of trust in that information among the public. The findings of the study also revealed the importance of improving the provision of appropriate information and health literacy for the behavior of educators, not only during the initial outbreak, but also during the subsequent period of pandemic life. Public Library of Science 2021-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8451997/ /pubmed/34543315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257552 Text en © 2021 Fukuda et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Fukuda, Yasue Ando, Shuji Fukuda, Koji Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey |
title | Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey |
title_full | Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey |
title_fullStr | Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey |
title_short | Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey |
title_sort | knowledge and preventive actions toward covid-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in japan: an online survey |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8451997/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34543315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257552 |
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