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Self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the USA: an online survey study
OBJECTIVES: Concerns have been raised that mass vaccination campaigns might lead to reduced engagement with other recommended health behaviors. We assessed self-reported behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the USA. STUDY DESIGN: Between December 2, 2020, and Marc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9113961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35717747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.05.007 |
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author | Thorpe, A. Fagerlin, A. Drews, F.A. Shoemaker, H. Scherer, L.D. |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Concerns have been raised that mass vaccination campaigns might lead to reduced engagement with other recommended health behaviors. We assessed self-reported behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the USA. STUDY DESIGN: Between December 2, 2020, and March 23, 2021, we conducted three online survey studies with US adult respondents. METHODS: Respondents self-reported their COVID-19 vaccination status, their frequency of engaging in risk-increasing behaviors and wearing a mask when in public places, and their COVID-19 risk perceptions (i.e., perceived likelihood of getting COVID-19 and of being hospitalized if they got COVID-19). RESULTS: Our analytical sample included 832 respondents who had completed the first and final surveys and had received either 0 or 2 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Most respondents were non-Hispanic White (75%), male (77%), and US Veterans (64%), with the median age between 55 and 74 years. Overall, respondents reported frequently wearing masks when in public and rarely engaging in risk-increasing behaviors. Regardless of vaccination status, respondents reported more frequently engaging in risk-increasing behaviors and lower risk perceptions in March 2021 than in December 2020. Mask wearing did not change over the study period, with vaccinated respondents consistently reporting more frequent mask wearing than unvaccinated respondents. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, our findings indicate that the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the USA did not result in the rapid abandonment of protective behaviors or dramatic uptake of risk-increasing behaviors. Additional studies are needed to monitor how mass vaccination might impact public behaviors and risk perceptions as coverage widens. |
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spelling | pubmed-91139612022-05-18 Self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the USA: an online survey study Thorpe, A. Fagerlin, A. Drews, F.A. Shoemaker, H. Scherer, L.D. Public Health Short Communication OBJECTIVES: Concerns have been raised that mass vaccination campaigns might lead to reduced engagement with other recommended health behaviors. We assessed self-reported behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the USA. STUDY DESIGN: Between December 2, 2020, and March 23, 2021, we conducted three online survey studies with US adult respondents. METHODS: Respondents self-reported their COVID-19 vaccination status, their frequency of engaging in risk-increasing behaviors and wearing a mask when in public places, and their COVID-19 risk perceptions (i.e., perceived likelihood of getting COVID-19 and of being hospitalized if they got COVID-19). RESULTS: Our analytical sample included 832 respondents who had completed the first and final surveys and had received either 0 or 2 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. Most respondents were non-Hispanic White (75%), male (77%), and US Veterans (64%), with the median age between 55 and 74 years. Overall, respondents reported frequently wearing masks when in public and rarely engaging in risk-increasing behaviors. Regardless of vaccination status, respondents reported more frequently engaging in risk-increasing behaviors and lower risk perceptions in March 2021 than in December 2020. Mask wearing did not change over the study period, with vaccinated respondents consistently reporting more frequent mask wearing than unvaccinated respondents. CONCLUSIONS: Taken together, our findings indicate that the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the USA did not result in the rapid abandonment of protective behaviors or dramatic uptake of risk-increasing behaviors. Additional studies are needed to monitor how mass vaccination might impact public behaviors and risk perceptions as coverage widens. Elsevier 2022-07 2022-05-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9113961/ /pubmed/35717747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.05.007 Text en 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 | Short Communication Thorpe, A. Fagerlin, A. Drews, F.A. Shoemaker, H. Scherer, L.D. Self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the USA: an online survey study |
title | Self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the USA: an online survey study |
title_full | Self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the USA: an online survey study |
title_fullStr | Self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the USA: an online survey study |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the USA: an online survey study |
title_short | Self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the COVID-19 vaccination rollout in the USA: an online survey study |
title_sort | self-reported health behaviors and risk perceptions following the covid-19 vaccination rollout in the usa: an online survey study |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9113961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35717747 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.05.007 |
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