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COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities aged 18-65: An exploratory analysis
BACKGROUND: It is important for people with disabilities to be vaccinated against COVID-19 because, as a group, they are at increased risk of severe outcomes. While there are multiple vaccines available to prevent COVID-19, a considerable proportion of Americans report some hesitancy to becoming vac...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8500835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34663563 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101223 |
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description | BACKGROUND: It is important for people with disabilities to be vaccinated against COVID-19 because, as a group, they are at increased risk of severe outcomes. While there are multiple vaccines available to prevent COVID-19, a considerable proportion of Americans report some hesitancy to becoming vaccinated, including people with disabilities. OBJECTIVE: We conducted a study to explore what factors may contribute to COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities. METHODS: We used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to survey 439 people with disabilities (ages 18+) about their concerns of the COVID-19 disease, vaccines, and hesitancy toward vaccination to learn more about factors that influence vaccination hesitancy. Concerns about vaccines were analyzed as a composite variable representing different dimensions such as: side effects, too new, developed too quickly, influenced by politics, and effectiveness. RESULTS: Results from a logistic regression indicate that concern about vaccines was the most significant predictor of hesitancy, even after considering demographic, economic, and geographic factors. Concerns about getting COVID-19, getting tested for COVID-19, trust in experts, education, and being a Democrat were negatively associated with hesitancy. CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that some groups of individuals may be more vaccination hesitant because they are more concerned about vaccine safety than COVID-19 infection. Public health messaging that focuses on the risks of vaccines relative to the risks of COVID-19 might be one strategy to reduce hesitancy and increase vaccination uptake. Messaging should also be tailored to specific disabilities (i.e. physical, mental, sensory), written in plain language, and disseminated in accessible formats. |
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spelling | pubmed-85008352021-10-12 COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities aged 18-65: An exploratory analysis Myers, Andrew Ipsen, Catherine Lissau, Ari Disabil Health J Brief Report BACKGROUND: It is important for people with disabilities to be vaccinated against COVID-19 because, as a group, they are at increased risk of severe outcomes. While there are multiple vaccines available to prevent COVID-19, a considerable proportion of Americans report some hesitancy to becoming vaccinated, including people with disabilities. OBJECTIVE: We conducted a study to explore what factors may contribute to COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities. METHODS: We used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to survey 439 people with disabilities (ages 18+) about their concerns of the COVID-19 disease, vaccines, and hesitancy toward vaccination to learn more about factors that influence vaccination hesitancy. Concerns about vaccines were analyzed as a composite variable representing different dimensions such as: side effects, too new, developed too quickly, influenced by politics, and effectiveness. RESULTS: Results from a logistic regression indicate that concern about vaccines was the most significant predictor of hesitancy, even after considering demographic, economic, and geographic factors. Concerns about getting COVID-19, getting tested for COVID-19, trust in experts, education, and being a Democrat were negatively associated with hesitancy. CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that some groups of individuals may be more vaccination hesitant because they are more concerned about vaccine safety than COVID-19 infection. Public health messaging that focuses on the risks of vaccines relative to the risks of COVID-19 might be one strategy to reduce hesitancy and increase vaccination uptake. Messaging should also be tailored to specific disabilities (i.e. physical, mental, sensory), written in plain language, and disseminated in accessible formats. Elsevier Inc. 2022-01 2021-10-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8500835/ /pubmed/34663563 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101223 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. 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 | Brief Report Myers, Andrew Ipsen, Catherine Lissau, Ari COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities aged 18-65: An exploratory analysis |
title | COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities aged 18-65: An exploratory analysis |
title_full | COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities aged 18-65: An exploratory analysis |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities aged 18-65: An exploratory analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities aged 18-65: An exploratory analysis |
title_short | COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy among Americans with disabilities aged 18-65: An exploratory analysis |
title_sort | covid-19 vaccination hesitancy among americans with disabilities aged 18-65: an exploratory analysis |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8500835/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34663563 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dhjo.2021.101223 |
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