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COVID-19 vaccine behaviors and intentions among a national sample of United States adults ages 18–45
BACKGROUND: Vaccination for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 illness, is an important public health tool to reduce hospitalizations and deaths. PURPOSE: This report focuses on intentions and behaviors related to COVID-19 vaccination among United States (U.S.) adults ages 18–45. METHODS: Fr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8988441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35398369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107038 |
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author | Brownstein, Naomi C. Reddy, Harika Whiting, Junmin Kasting, Monica L. Head, Katharine J. Vadaparampil, Susan T. Giuliano, Anna R. Gwede, Clement K. Meade, Cathy D. Christy, Shannon M. |
author_facet | Brownstein, Naomi C. Reddy, Harika Whiting, Junmin Kasting, Monica L. Head, Katharine J. Vadaparampil, Susan T. Giuliano, Anna R. Gwede, Clement K. Meade, Cathy D. Christy, Shannon M. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Vaccination for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 illness, is an important public health tool to reduce hospitalizations and deaths. PURPOSE: This report focuses on intentions and behaviors related to COVID-19 vaccination among United States (U.S.) adults ages 18–45. METHODS: From February 25–March 24, 2021, we conducted an online survey assessing COVID-19 vaccine intentions and behaviors, health beliefs, vaccine attitudes, and sociodemographic characteristics. Participants were adults aged 18–45, living throughout the U.S. with oversampling in Florida, panelists of a research panel company directly or via verified partners, and able to read, write, and understand English. Associations between COVID-19 vaccination uptake, intentions, and other study variables were examined through multivariable logistic and proportional odds regression analyses. RESULTS: Among participants in the final analytic sample (n = 2722), 18% reported having received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Approximately 31% of unvaccinated participants reported strong intentions to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in the next year, whereas 35% reported strong intentions to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it were strongly recommended by a healthcare provider. All COVID-19 vaccination outcomes were associated with male gender, sexual minority status, higher levels of education, and previous influenza vaccination. All vaccination intention outcomes were associated with vaccine attitudes and geographic region. Vaccination status and intentions were differentially associated with multiple additional sociodemographic, attitudinal, and/or healthcare experience variables. CONCLUSIONS: Several demographic variables, vaccine attitudes, and healthcare experiences were found to contribute to COVID-19 vaccine receipt and intentions. Targeted efforts are necessary to increase uptake of the vaccine in the U.S. |
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spelling | pubmed-89884412022-04-07 COVID-19 vaccine behaviors and intentions among a national sample of United States adults ages 18–45 Brownstein, Naomi C. Reddy, Harika Whiting, Junmin Kasting, Monica L. Head, Katharine J. Vadaparampil, Susan T. Giuliano, Anna R. Gwede, Clement K. Meade, Cathy D. Christy, Shannon M. Prev Med Article BACKGROUND: Vaccination for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 illness, is an important public health tool to reduce hospitalizations and deaths. PURPOSE: This report focuses on intentions and behaviors related to COVID-19 vaccination among United States (U.S.) adults ages 18–45. METHODS: From February 25–March 24, 2021, we conducted an online survey assessing COVID-19 vaccine intentions and behaviors, health beliefs, vaccine attitudes, and sociodemographic characteristics. Participants were adults aged 18–45, living throughout the U.S. with oversampling in Florida, panelists of a research panel company directly or via verified partners, and able to read, write, and understand English. Associations between COVID-19 vaccination uptake, intentions, and other study variables were examined through multivariable logistic and proportional odds regression analyses. RESULTS: Among participants in the final analytic sample (n = 2722), 18% reported having received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Approximately 31% of unvaccinated participants reported strong intentions to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in the next year, whereas 35% reported strong intentions to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it were strongly recommended by a healthcare provider. All COVID-19 vaccination outcomes were associated with male gender, sexual minority status, higher levels of education, and previous influenza vaccination. All vaccination intention outcomes were associated with vaccine attitudes and geographic region. Vaccination status and intentions were differentially associated with multiple additional sociodemographic, attitudinal, and/or healthcare experience variables. CONCLUSIONS: Several demographic variables, vaccine attitudes, and healthcare experiences were found to contribute to COVID-19 vaccine receipt and intentions. Targeted efforts are necessary to increase uptake of the vaccine in the U.S. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-07 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8988441/ /pubmed/35398369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107038 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. 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 Brownstein, Naomi C. Reddy, Harika Whiting, Junmin Kasting, Monica L. Head, Katharine J. Vadaparampil, Susan T. Giuliano, Anna R. Gwede, Clement K. Meade, Cathy D. Christy, Shannon M. COVID-19 vaccine behaviors and intentions among a national sample of United States adults ages 18–45 |
title | COVID-19 vaccine behaviors and intentions among a national sample of United States adults ages 18–45 |
title_full | COVID-19 vaccine behaviors and intentions among a national sample of United States adults ages 18–45 |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 vaccine behaviors and intentions among a national sample of United States adults ages 18–45 |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 vaccine behaviors and intentions among a national sample of United States adults ages 18–45 |
title_short | COVID-19 vaccine behaviors and intentions among a national sample of United States adults ages 18–45 |
title_sort | covid-19 vaccine behaviors and intentions among a national sample of united states adults ages 18–45 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8988441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35398369 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2022.107038 |
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