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Adolescents’ attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccination
Vaccines against COVID-19 are now available for adolescents in Hong Kong but vaccine hesitancy is a major barrier to herd immunity. This survey study explores Hong Kong adolescents’ attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccination. 2609 adolescents from across Hong Kong completed an online survey focused...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752287/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35063284 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.01.010 |
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author | Wong, W.H.S. Leung, D. Chua, G.T. Duque, J.S.R. Peare, S. So, H.K. Chan, S.M. Kwan, M.Y.W. Ip, P. Lau, Y.L. |
author_facet | Wong, W.H.S. Leung, D. Chua, G.T. Duque, J.S.R. Peare, S. So, H.K. Chan, S.M. Kwan, M.Y.W. Ip, P. Lau, Y.L. |
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description | Vaccines against COVID-19 are now available for adolescents in Hong Kong but vaccine hesitancy is a major barrier to herd immunity. This survey study explores Hong Kong adolescents’ attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccination. 2609 adolescents from across Hong Kong completed an online survey focused on the intent to vaccinate and the reasons for their choice. 39% of adolescents intended to take the COVID-19 vaccination and significant factors for this decision include: having at least one parent vaccinated, knowing somebody diagnosed with COVID-19 and receiving the influenza vaccine. Adolescents’ major concerns were either the safety and efficacy of the vaccine or the risk of infection. This study has proved that even in adolescents the vaccine hesitancy model is prominent with adolescents’ intentions highly related to confidence in the vaccine and perception of disease risk. Future interventions should target these specific concerns to ensure adolescents are well educated to overcome vaccine hesitancy. |
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spelling | pubmed-87522872022-01-12 Adolescents’ attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccination Wong, W.H.S. Leung, D. Chua, G.T. Duque, J.S.R. Peare, S. So, H.K. Chan, S.M. Kwan, M.Y.W. Ip, P. Lau, Y.L. Vaccine Short Communication Vaccines against COVID-19 are now available for adolescents in Hong Kong but vaccine hesitancy is a major barrier to herd immunity. This survey study explores Hong Kong adolescents’ attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccination. 2609 adolescents from across Hong Kong completed an online survey focused on the intent to vaccinate and the reasons for their choice. 39% of adolescents intended to take the COVID-19 vaccination and significant factors for this decision include: having at least one parent vaccinated, knowing somebody diagnosed with COVID-19 and receiving the influenza vaccine. Adolescents’ major concerns were either the safety and efficacy of the vaccine or the risk of infection. This study has proved that even in adolescents the vaccine hesitancy model is prominent with adolescents’ intentions highly related to confidence in the vaccine and perception of disease risk. Future interventions should target these specific concerns to ensure adolescents are well educated to overcome vaccine hesitancy. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-02-11 2022-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8752287/ /pubmed/35063284 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.01.010 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 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 | Short Communication Wong, W.H.S. Leung, D. Chua, G.T. Duque, J.S.R. Peare, S. So, H.K. Chan, S.M. Kwan, M.Y.W. Ip, P. Lau, Y.L. Adolescents’ attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccination |
title | Adolescents’ attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccination |
title_full | Adolescents’ attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccination |
title_fullStr | Adolescents’ attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccination |
title_full_unstemmed | Adolescents’ attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccination |
title_short | Adolescents’ attitudes to the COVID-19 vaccination |
title_sort | adolescents’ attitudes to the covid-19 vaccination |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8752287/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35063284 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.01.010 |
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