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COVID-19 vaccine preferences among university students in Hong Kong: a discrete choice experiment

OBJECTIVE: To promote public health and resume university activities, COVID-19 vaccination has been mandated from an increasing number of universities worldwide. The objective of the study is to understand the factors that impact preference and willingness to take the vaccine among university studen...

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Autores principales: Li, Xue, Chong, Man Yui, Chan, Ching Yui, Chan, Vindy Wing Sum, Tong, Xinning
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8607213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34809681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05841-z
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author Li, Xue
Chong, Man Yui
Chan, Ching Yui
Chan, Vindy Wing Sum
Tong, Xinning
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Chong, Man Yui
Chan, Ching Yui
Chan, Vindy Wing Sum
Tong, Xinning
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description OBJECTIVE: To promote public health and resume university activities, COVID-19 vaccination has been mandated from an increasing number of universities worldwide. The objective of the study is to understand the factors that impact preference and willingness to take the vaccine among university students in Hong Kong universities utilizing an online questionnaire. The findings will be imperative for health education and the success of the vaccination program. RESULTS: We conducted a discrete choice experiment survey among university students in Hong Kong and applied conditional logit regression to estimate their vaccine preference and the weight of each attribute. Regression results showed adverse reactions, efficacy, origin of the vaccine, required number of doses and out-of-pocket price are significant determinants for the choice of vaccine, ranked from the most to least important. Similar preference weighting results were observed after adjusting age, sex, monthly household income, studying medical-related subjects and recent influenza vaccination. Safety, efficacy and origin of the vaccine are key drivers for vaccination decisions among young adults in Hong Kong. Health education and communication focused on these factors are urgently needed to overcome vaccine hesitancy and improve the vaccine uptake. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-021-05841-z.
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spelling pubmed-86072132021-11-22 COVID-19 vaccine preferences among university students in Hong Kong: a discrete choice experiment Li, Xue Chong, Man Yui Chan, Ching Yui Chan, Vindy Wing Sum Tong, Xinning BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: To promote public health and resume university activities, COVID-19 vaccination has been mandated from an increasing number of universities worldwide. The objective of the study is to understand the factors that impact preference and willingness to take the vaccine among university students in Hong Kong universities utilizing an online questionnaire. The findings will be imperative for health education and the success of the vaccination program. RESULTS: We conducted a discrete choice experiment survey among university students in Hong Kong and applied conditional logit regression to estimate their vaccine preference and the weight of each attribute. Regression results showed adverse reactions, efficacy, origin of the vaccine, required number of doses and out-of-pocket price are significant determinants for the choice of vaccine, ranked from the most to least important. Similar preference weighting results were observed after adjusting age, sex, monthly household income, studying medical-related subjects and recent influenza vaccination. Safety, efficacy and origin of the vaccine are key drivers for vaccination decisions among young adults in Hong Kong. Health education and communication focused on these factors are urgently needed to overcome vaccine hesitancy and improve the vaccine uptake. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-021-05841-z. BioMed Central 2021-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8607213/ /pubmed/34809681 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05841-z Text en © The Author(s) 2021, corrected publication 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Chan, Vindy Wing Sum
Tong, Xinning
COVID-19 vaccine preferences among university students in Hong Kong: a discrete choice experiment
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title_short COVID-19 vaccine preferences among university students in Hong Kong: a discrete choice experiment
title_sort covid-19 vaccine preferences among university students in hong kong: a discrete choice experiment
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8607213/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34809681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05841-z
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