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The Determinants of Vaccine Literacy in the Italian Population: Results from the Health Literacy Survey 2019

Vaccines are among the most important public health achievements of the last century; however, vaccine awareness and uptake still face significant challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this phenomenon. Vaccine Literacy (VL) is the ability to find, understand and judge immunisatio...

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Autores principales: Cadeddu, Chiara, Regazzi, Luca, Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo, Rosano, Aldo, Unim, Brigid, Griebler, Robert, Link, Thomas, De Castro, Paola, D’Elia, Roberto, Mastrilli, Valeria, Palmieri, Luigi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9029177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35457297
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084429
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author Cadeddu, Chiara
Regazzi, Luca
Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo
Rosano, Aldo
Unim, Brigid
Griebler, Robert
Link, Thomas
De Castro, Paola
D’Elia, Roberto
Mastrilli, Valeria
Palmieri, Luigi
author_facet Cadeddu, Chiara
Regazzi, Luca
Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo
Rosano, Aldo
Unim, Brigid
Griebler, Robert
Link, Thomas
De Castro, Paola
D’Elia, Roberto
Mastrilli, Valeria
Palmieri, Luigi
author_sort Cadeddu, Chiara
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description Vaccines are among the most important public health achievements of the last century; however, vaccine awareness and uptake still face significant challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this phenomenon. Vaccine Literacy (VL) is the ability to find, understand and judge immunisation-related information to make appropriate immunisation decisions. A cross-sectional study on a sample of 3500 participants, representative of the Italian adult population aged 18+ years, was conducted in Italy in 2021. A validated questionnaire, including sections on health literacy (HL), sociodemographic characteristics, risk factors, and lifestyles of respondents, was used. VL was measured by four items (item 19, 22, 26 and 29) of the HL section. While 67.6% of the respondents had a “good” (47.5%) or “sufficient” (20.1%) level of VL, 32.4% had “limited” VL levels. Although the overall VL level was quite high, many participants reported difficulties in dealing with vaccination information, particularly those with a lower educational level, those living in southern and insular regions of Italy, those with greater financial deprivation and those with a migration background. Improving VL in Italy should be a top priority in the political agenda, with special regard to socially and geographically disadvantaged communities.
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spelling pubmed-90291772022-04-23 The Determinants of Vaccine Literacy in the Italian Population: Results from the Health Literacy Survey 2019 Cadeddu, Chiara Regazzi, Luca Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo Rosano, Aldo Unim, Brigid Griebler, Robert Link, Thomas De Castro, Paola D’Elia, Roberto Mastrilli, Valeria Palmieri, Luigi Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Vaccines are among the most important public health achievements of the last century; however, vaccine awareness and uptake still face significant challenges and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this phenomenon. Vaccine Literacy (VL) is the ability to find, understand and judge immunisation-related information to make appropriate immunisation decisions. A cross-sectional study on a sample of 3500 participants, representative of the Italian adult population aged 18+ years, was conducted in Italy in 2021. A validated questionnaire, including sections on health literacy (HL), sociodemographic characteristics, risk factors, and lifestyles of respondents, was used. VL was measured by four items (item 19, 22, 26 and 29) of the HL section. While 67.6% of the respondents had a “good” (47.5%) or “sufficient” (20.1%) level of VL, 32.4% had “limited” VL levels. Although the overall VL level was quite high, many participants reported difficulties in dealing with vaccination information, particularly those with a lower educational level, those living in southern and insular regions of Italy, those with greater financial deprivation and those with a migration background. Improving VL in Italy should be a top priority in the political agenda, with special regard to socially and geographically disadvantaged communities. MDPI 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9029177/ /pubmed/35457297 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084429 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Cadeddu, Chiara
Regazzi, Luca
Bonaccorsi, Guglielmo
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Griebler, Robert
Link, Thomas
De Castro, Paola
D’Elia, Roberto
Mastrilli, Valeria
Palmieri, Luigi
The Determinants of Vaccine Literacy in the Italian Population: Results from the Health Literacy Survey 2019
title The Determinants of Vaccine Literacy in the Italian Population: Results from the Health Literacy Survey 2019
title_full The Determinants of Vaccine Literacy in the Italian Population: Results from the Health Literacy Survey 2019
title_fullStr The Determinants of Vaccine Literacy in the Italian Population: Results from the Health Literacy Survey 2019
title_full_unstemmed The Determinants of Vaccine Literacy in the Italian Population: Results from the Health Literacy Survey 2019
title_short The Determinants of Vaccine Literacy in the Italian Population: Results from the Health Literacy Survey 2019
title_sort determinants of vaccine literacy in the italian population: results from the health literacy survey 2019
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9029177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35457297
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084429
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