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Patterns and influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccination willingness among college students in China

BACKGROUND: Vaccination is an important preventive measure against the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic. We aimed to examine the willingness to vaccination and influencing factors among college students in China. METHODS: From March 18 to April 26, 2021, we conducted a cross-sectional onli...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Xi-Mei, Yan, Wei, Sun, Jie, Liu, Lin, Zhao, Yi-Miao, Zheng, Yong-Bo, Que, Jian-Yu, Sun, Si-Wei, Gong, Yi-Miao, Zeng, Na, Yuan, Kai, Shi, Le, Sun, Yan-Kun, Guo, Sui-Huai, Lu, Yu, Ran, Mao-Sheng, Wong, Samuel Yeung Shan, Shi, Jie, Jiang, Zheng-Dong, Bao, Yan-Ping, Lu, Lin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8995203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35450782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.013
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author Zhu, Xi-Mei
Yan, Wei
Sun, Jie
Liu, Lin
Zhao, Yi-Miao
Zheng, Yong-Bo
Que, Jian-Yu
Sun, Si-Wei
Gong, Yi-Miao
Zeng, Na
Yuan, Kai
Shi, Le
Sun, Yan-Kun
Guo, Sui-Huai
Lu, Yu
Ran, Mao-Sheng
Wong, Samuel Yeung Shan
Shi, Jie
Jiang, Zheng-Dong
Bao, Yan-Ping
Lu, Lin
author_facet Zhu, Xi-Mei
Yan, Wei
Sun, Jie
Liu, Lin
Zhao, Yi-Miao
Zheng, Yong-Bo
Que, Jian-Yu
Sun, Si-Wei
Gong, Yi-Miao
Zeng, Na
Yuan, Kai
Shi, Le
Sun, Yan-Kun
Guo, Sui-Huai
Lu, Yu
Ran, Mao-Sheng
Wong, Samuel Yeung Shan
Shi, Jie
Jiang, Zheng-Dong
Bao, Yan-Ping
Lu, Lin
author_sort Zhu, Xi-Mei
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description BACKGROUND: Vaccination is an important preventive measure against the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic. We aimed to examine the willingness to vaccination and influencing factors among college students in China. METHODS: From March 18 to April 26, 2021, we conducted a cross-sectional online survey among college students from 30 universities in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The survey was composed of the sociodemographic information, psychological status, experience during pandemic, the willingness of vaccination and related information. Students’ attitudes towards vaccination were classified as ‘vaccine acceptance’, ‘vaccine hesitancy’, and ‘vaccine resistance’. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed to identify the influencing factors associated with vaccine hesitancy and resistance. RESULTS: Among 23,143 students who completed the survey, a total of 22,660 participants were included in the final analysis with an effective rate of 97.9% after excluding invalid questionnaires. A total of 60.6% of participants would be willing to receive COVID-19 vaccine, 33.4% were hesitant to vaccination, and 6.0% were resistant to vaccination. Social media platforms and government agencies were the main sources of information vaccination. Worry about the efficacy and adverse effects of vaccine were the top two common reason of vaccine hesitancy and resistance. Multiple multinomial logistic regression analysis identified that participants who worried about the adverse effects of vaccination were more likely to be vaccine hesitancy (aOR = 2.44, 95% CI = 2.30, 2.58) and resistance (aOR = 2.71, 95% CI = 2.40, 3.05). CONCLUSION: More than half of college students are willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, whereas nearly one-third college students are still hesitant or resistant. It is crucial to provide sufficient and scientific information on the efficacy and safety of vaccine through social media and government agencies platforms to promote vaccine progress against COVID-19 and control the pandemic in China.
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spelling pubmed-89952032022-04-11 Patterns and influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccination willingness among college students in China Zhu, Xi-Mei Yan, Wei Sun, Jie Liu, Lin Zhao, Yi-Miao Zheng, Yong-Bo Que, Jian-Yu Sun, Si-Wei Gong, Yi-Miao Zeng, Na Yuan, Kai Shi, Le Sun, Yan-Kun Guo, Sui-Huai Lu, Yu Ran, Mao-Sheng Wong, Samuel Yeung Shan Shi, Jie Jiang, Zheng-Dong Bao, Yan-Ping Lu, Lin Vaccine Article BACKGROUND: Vaccination is an important preventive measure against the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic. We aimed to examine the willingness to vaccination and influencing factors among college students in China. METHODS: From March 18 to April 26, 2021, we conducted a cross-sectional online survey among college students from 30 universities in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The survey was composed of the sociodemographic information, psychological status, experience during pandemic, the willingness of vaccination and related information. Students’ attitudes towards vaccination were classified as ‘vaccine acceptance’, ‘vaccine hesitancy’, and ‘vaccine resistance’. Multinomial logistic regression analyses were performed to identify the influencing factors associated with vaccine hesitancy and resistance. RESULTS: Among 23,143 students who completed the survey, a total of 22,660 participants were included in the final analysis with an effective rate of 97.9% after excluding invalid questionnaires. A total of 60.6% of participants would be willing to receive COVID-19 vaccine, 33.4% were hesitant to vaccination, and 6.0% were resistant to vaccination. Social media platforms and government agencies were the main sources of information vaccination. Worry about the efficacy and adverse effects of vaccine were the top two common reason of vaccine hesitancy and resistance. Multiple multinomial logistic regression analysis identified that participants who worried about the adverse effects of vaccination were more likely to be vaccine hesitancy (aOR = 2.44, 95% CI = 2.30, 2.58) and resistance (aOR = 2.71, 95% CI = 2.40, 3.05). CONCLUSION: More than half of college students are willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, whereas nearly one-third college students are still hesitant or resistant. It is crucial to provide sufficient and scientific information on the efficacy and safety of vaccine through social media and government agencies platforms to promote vaccine progress against COVID-19 and control the pandemic in China. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-05-11 2022-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8995203/ /pubmed/35450782 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.013 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.
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Zhu, Xi-Mei
Yan, Wei
Sun, Jie
Liu, Lin
Zhao, Yi-Miao
Zheng, Yong-Bo
Que, Jian-Yu
Sun, Si-Wei
Gong, Yi-Miao
Zeng, Na
Yuan, Kai
Shi, Le
Sun, Yan-Kun
Guo, Sui-Huai
Lu, Yu
Ran, Mao-Sheng
Wong, Samuel Yeung Shan
Shi, Jie
Jiang, Zheng-Dong
Bao, Yan-Ping
Lu, Lin
Patterns and influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccination willingness among college students in China
title Patterns and influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccination willingness among college students in China
title_full Patterns and influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccination willingness among college students in China
title_fullStr Patterns and influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccination willingness among college students in China
title_full_unstemmed Patterns and influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccination willingness among college students in China
title_short Patterns and influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccination willingness among college students in China
title_sort patterns and influencing factors of covid-19 vaccination willingness among college students in china
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8995203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35450782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.013
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