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COVID-19 vaccine intention among young adults: Comparative results from a cross-sectional study in Canada and France
BACKGROUND: High rates of COVID-19 vaccination uptake are required to attain community immunity. This study aims to identify factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine uncertainty and refusal among young adults, an underexplored population with regards to vaccine intention generally, in two high-incom...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8890971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35305823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.02.085 |
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author | Coulaud, Pierre-julien Ablona, Aidan Bolduc, Naseeb Fast, Danya Bertrand, Karine Ward, Jeremy K. Greyson, Devon Jauffret-Roustide, Marie Knight, Rod |
author_facet | Coulaud, Pierre-julien Ablona, Aidan Bolduc, Naseeb Fast, Danya Bertrand, Karine Ward, Jeremy K. Greyson, Devon Jauffret-Roustide, Marie Knight, Rod |
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description | BACKGROUND: High rates of COVID-19 vaccination uptake are required to attain community immunity. This study aims to identify factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine uncertainty and refusal among young adults, an underexplored population with regards to vaccine intention generally, in two high-income settings: Canada and France. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted from October to December 2020 among young adults ages 18–29 years (n = 6663) living in Canada (51.9%) and France (48.1%). Multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed to identify the sociodemographic and COVID-19-related measures (e.g., prevention behavior and perspectives, health-related concerns) associated with vaccine uncertainty and refusal. We conducted weighted analyses by age, gender and province/region of residence. RESULTS: Intention to accept vaccination was reported by 84.3% and 59.7% of the sample in Canada and France, respectively. Higher levels of vaccine uncertainty and refusal were observed in France compared to Canada (30.1% versus 11%, 10.2% versus 4.7%). In both countries, we found higher levels of vaccine acceptance among young adults who reported COVID-19 prevention actions. Vaccine uncertainty and refusal were associated with living in a rural area, having lower levels of educational attainment, not looking for information about COVID-19, not wearing a face mask, and reporting a lower level of concern for COVID-19′s impact on family. Participants who had been tested for COVID-19 were less likely to intend to refuse a vaccine. CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was high among young adults in Canada and France during a time in which vaccines were approved for use. Targeted interventions to build confidence in demographic groups with greater hesitance (e.g., rural and with less personal experience with COVID-19) may further boost acceptance and improve equity as vaccine efforts continue to unfold. |
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spelling | pubmed-88909712022-03-04 COVID-19 vaccine intention among young adults: Comparative results from a cross-sectional study in Canada and France Coulaud, Pierre-julien Ablona, Aidan Bolduc, Naseeb Fast, Danya Bertrand, Karine Ward, Jeremy K. Greyson, Devon Jauffret-Roustide, Marie Knight, Rod Vaccine Article BACKGROUND: High rates of COVID-19 vaccination uptake are required to attain community immunity. This study aims to identify factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine uncertainty and refusal among young adults, an underexplored population with regards to vaccine intention generally, in two high-income settings: Canada and France. METHODS: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted from October to December 2020 among young adults ages 18–29 years (n = 6663) living in Canada (51.9%) and France (48.1%). Multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed to identify the sociodemographic and COVID-19-related measures (e.g., prevention behavior and perspectives, health-related concerns) associated with vaccine uncertainty and refusal. We conducted weighted analyses by age, gender and province/region of residence. RESULTS: Intention to accept vaccination was reported by 84.3% and 59.7% of the sample in Canada and France, respectively. Higher levels of vaccine uncertainty and refusal were observed in France compared to Canada (30.1% versus 11%, 10.2% versus 4.7%). In both countries, we found higher levels of vaccine acceptance among young adults who reported COVID-19 prevention actions. Vaccine uncertainty and refusal were associated with living in a rural area, having lower levels of educational attainment, not looking for information about COVID-19, not wearing a face mask, and reporting a lower level of concern for COVID-19′s impact on family. Participants who had been tested for COVID-19 were less likely to intend to refuse a vaccine. CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was high among young adults in Canada and France during a time in which vaccines were approved for use. Targeted interventions to build confidence in demographic groups with greater hesitance (e.g., rural and with less personal experience with COVID-19) may further boost acceptance and improve equity as vaccine efforts continue to unfold. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-04-06 2022-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8890971/ /pubmed/35305823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.02.085 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. 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 | Article Coulaud, Pierre-julien Ablona, Aidan Bolduc, Naseeb Fast, Danya Bertrand, Karine Ward, Jeremy K. Greyson, Devon Jauffret-Roustide, Marie Knight, Rod COVID-19 vaccine intention among young adults: Comparative results from a cross-sectional study in Canada and France |
title | COVID-19 vaccine intention among young adults: Comparative results from a cross-sectional study in Canada and France |
title_full | COVID-19 vaccine intention among young adults: Comparative results from a cross-sectional study in Canada and France |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 vaccine intention among young adults: Comparative results from a cross-sectional study in Canada and France |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 vaccine intention among young adults: Comparative results from a cross-sectional study in Canada and France |
title_short | COVID-19 vaccine intention among young adults: Comparative results from a cross-sectional study in Canada and France |
title_sort | covid-19 vaccine intention among young adults: comparative results from a cross-sectional study in canada and france |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8890971/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35305823 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.02.085 |
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