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The impact of COVID-19 on income and employment and willingness to become vaccinated among African Americans enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized trial

Given vulnerability to COVID-19 among smokers and vaccine hesitancy among populations disproportionately burdened with COVID-19, it’s important to understand concerns about vaccines and the impact of COVID-19 on these subgroups. Among our all African American (AA) sample of smokers (N = 172) enrolle...

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Autores principales: Cruvinel, Erica, P Richter, Kimber, S Scheuermann, Taneisha, M Machado, Nathalia, Mayo, Matthew S, R Brown, Alexandra, L Nollen, Nicole
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35168840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.01.064
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author Cruvinel, Erica
P Richter, Kimber
S Scheuermann, Taneisha
M Machado, Nathalia
Mayo, Matthew S
R Brown, Alexandra
L Nollen, Nicole
author_facet Cruvinel, Erica
P Richter, Kimber
S Scheuermann, Taneisha
M Machado, Nathalia
Mayo, Matthew S
R Brown, Alexandra
L Nollen, Nicole
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description Given vulnerability to COVID-19 among smokers and vaccine hesitancy among populations disproportionately burdened with COVID-19, it’s important to understand concerns about vaccines and the impact of COVID-19 on these subgroups. Among our all African American (AA) sample of smokers (N = 172) enrolled in a larger smoking cessation clinical trial, results demonstrated an intensive burden from COVID-19; 42 (24.4%) lost employment, 56 (32.6%) lost household income, and 66 (38.4%) reported inability to pay bills and buy food due to COVID. Most, 103 (64.4%), were willing to get vaccinated. Among the vaccine-hesitant, 57 (35.6%), concerns about COVID-19 vaccine development and mistrust in vaccines were primary reasons for unwillingness to get vaccinated. Few identified doctor’s advice as most valued in deciding if the vaccine was the best option. Findings highlight high openness to the vaccine among smokers impacted by COVID but reiterate the need for community-engaged versus health system-driven approaches to improve vaccine hesitancy among racial/ethnic minorities.
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spelling pubmed-88183742022-02-07 The impact of COVID-19 on income and employment and willingness to become vaccinated among African Americans enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized trial Cruvinel, Erica P Richter, Kimber S Scheuermann, Taneisha M Machado, Nathalia Mayo, Matthew S R Brown, Alexandra L Nollen, Nicole Vaccine Short Communication Given vulnerability to COVID-19 among smokers and vaccine hesitancy among populations disproportionately burdened with COVID-19, it’s important to understand concerns about vaccines and the impact of COVID-19 on these subgroups. Among our all African American (AA) sample of smokers (N = 172) enrolled in a larger smoking cessation clinical trial, results demonstrated an intensive burden from COVID-19; 42 (24.4%) lost employment, 56 (32.6%) lost household income, and 66 (38.4%) reported inability to pay bills and buy food due to COVID. Most, 103 (64.4%), were willing to get vaccinated. Among the vaccine-hesitant, 57 (35.6%), concerns about COVID-19 vaccine development and mistrust in vaccines were primary reasons for unwillingness to get vaccinated. Few identified doctor’s advice as most valued in deciding if the vaccine was the best option. Findings highlight high openness to the vaccine among smokers impacted by COVID but reiterate the need for community-engaged versus health system-driven approaches to improve vaccine hesitancy among racial/ethnic minorities. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-03-15 2022-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8818374/ /pubmed/35168840 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.01.064 Text en © 2022 The Authors 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.
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Cruvinel, Erica
P Richter, Kimber
S Scheuermann, Taneisha
M Machado, Nathalia
Mayo, Matthew S
R Brown, Alexandra
L Nollen, Nicole
The impact of COVID-19 on income and employment and willingness to become vaccinated among African Americans enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized trial
title The impact of COVID-19 on income and employment and willingness to become vaccinated among African Americans enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized trial
title_full The impact of COVID-19 on income and employment and willingness to become vaccinated among African Americans enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized trial
title_fullStr The impact of COVID-19 on income and employment and willingness to become vaccinated among African Americans enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized trial
title_full_unstemmed The impact of COVID-19 on income and employment and willingness to become vaccinated among African Americans enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized trial
title_short The impact of COVID-19 on income and employment and willingness to become vaccinated among African Americans enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized trial
title_sort impact of covid-19 on income and employment and willingness to become vaccinated among african americans enrolled in a smoking cessation randomized trial
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8818374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35168840
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.01.064
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