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The COVID‐19 vaccine intentions of Australian disability support workers

OBJECTIVES: Describe perceptions of COVID‐19, COVID‐19 vaccines, information sources, and levels and reasons for vaccine hesitancy among disability support workers (DSWs). METHODS: Cross‐sectional survey of 252 DSWs from across Australia, between early March and early April 2021. Perceptions of risk...

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Autores principales: Kavanagh, Anne, Dickinson, Helen, Dimov, Stefanie, Shields, Marissa, McAllister, Ashley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9111309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35298057
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13226
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Dickinson, Helen
Dimov, Stefanie
Shields, Marissa
McAllister, Ashley
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Dimov, Stefanie
Shields, Marissa
McAllister, Ashley
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description OBJECTIVES: Describe perceptions of COVID‐19, COVID‐19 vaccines, information sources, and levels and reasons for vaccine hesitancy among disability support workers (DSWs). METHODS: Cross‐sectional survey of 252 DSWs from across Australia, between early March and early April 2021. Perceptions of risk of COVID‐19; government and media representations; vaccination status (Y/N); vaccine intentions (when offered, delayed vaccinators, vaccine refusers); reasons for hesitancy; confidence in safety and efficacy of vaccine; and information sources. RESULTS: At the time of the survey, fewer than 1% of DSWs had been vaccinated and 17% had been offered vaccination. Of those who had not had the vaccine, 47% said they would get it as soon as it was offered; 19% would not get the vaccine; 12% would have if required; 13% hadn't decided; and 8% would wait until it was available for a while. Reasons for hesitancy included inadequate safety data (70% delayed vaccinators, 79% vaccine refusers), side effects (63% delayed vaccinators, 58% refusers), and distrust in the government (17% delayed vaccinators, 52% refusers). DSWs most trusted sources of information were their own doctor, Chief Medical Officers, and governments. 61% believed that COVID‐19 will only stop if most of the community is vaccinated and 53% agreed the chances of them or their clients getting COVID‐19 would be reduced if they were vaccinated. CONCLUSIONS: Tailored information is needed to reduce vaccine hesitancy and increase confidence in COVID‐19 vaccines among DSWs. The importance of getting vaccinated to prevent COVID‐19 among people with disability should be emphasised.
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spelling pubmed-91113092022-05-17 The COVID‐19 vaccine intentions of Australian disability support workers Kavanagh, Anne Dickinson, Helen Dimov, Stefanie Shields, Marissa McAllister, Ashley Aust N Z J Public Health Covid‐19 OBJECTIVES: Describe perceptions of COVID‐19, COVID‐19 vaccines, information sources, and levels and reasons for vaccine hesitancy among disability support workers (DSWs). METHODS: Cross‐sectional survey of 252 DSWs from across Australia, between early March and early April 2021. Perceptions of risk of COVID‐19; government and media representations; vaccination status (Y/N); vaccine intentions (when offered, delayed vaccinators, vaccine refusers); reasons for hesitancy; confidence in safety and efficacy of vaccine; and information sources. RESULTS: At the time of the survey, fewer than 1% of DSWs had been vaccinated and 17% had been offered vaccination. Of those who had not had the vaccine, 47% said they would get it as soon as it was offered; 19% would not get the vaccine; 12% would have if required; 13% hadn't decided; and 8% would wait until it was available for a while. Reasons for hesitancy included inadequate safety data (70% delayed vaccinators, 79% vaccine refusers), side effects (63% delayed vaccinators, 58% refusers), and distrust in the government (17% delayed vaccinators, 52% refusers). DSWs most trusted sources of information were their own doctor, Chief Medical Officers, and governments. 61% believed that COVID‐19 will only stop if most of the community is vaccinated and 53% agreed the chances of them or their clients getting COVID‐19 would be reduced if they were vaccinated. CONCLUSIONS: Tailored information is needed to reduce vaccine hesitancy and increase confidence in COVID‐19 vaccines among DSWs. The importance of getting vaccinated to prevent COVID‐19 among people with disability should be emphasised. Elsevier 2022-06 2023-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9111309/ /pubmed/35298057 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13226 Text en © 2022 Copyright 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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