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COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake and Related Determinants in Detained Subjects in Italy

Background: This study explored the extent of COVID-19 vaccination coverage and investigated drivers and barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people in prison. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from July to October 2021 among 517 detained people in the Campania region of South I...

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Autores principales: Di Giuseppe, Gabriella, Pelullo, Concetta Paola, Lanzano, Raffaele, Lombardi, Chiara, Nese, Giuseppe, Pavia, Maria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9146091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35632429
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10050673
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author Di Giuseppe, Gabriella
Pelullo, Concetta Paola
Lanzano, Raffaele
Lombardi, Chiara
Nese, Giuseppe
Pavia, Maria
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description Background: This study explored the extent of COVID-19 vaccination coverage and investigated drivers and barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people in prison. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from July to October 2021 among 517 detained people in the Campania region of South Italy. Results: In total, 47.1% of participants expressed a high concern about contracting COVID-19 after vaccination, whereas 60.6% and 53.8% of respondents reported a positive attitude towards usefulness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines, respectively. Adherence to the active offer of COVID-19 vaccination involved 89.7% of detained subjects. COVID-19 vaccination uptake was significantly higher in females, and in those who reported influenza vaccination uptake, had received information about COVID-19 vaccination from media and newspapers, did not express need of additional information about COVID-19 vaccine, believed that COVID-19 vaccine is safe, were involved in working activities in the prison, and had a high school or university degree. Conclusions: These findings showed a high self-reported COVID-19 vaccination coverage in detained subjects, supporting the effectiveness of the strategy aimed at giving priority to COVID-19 vaccinations in prisons. Further efforts are needed to contrast the hesitancy of those who refused vaccination to increase their confidence about usefulness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
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spelling pubmed-91460912022-05-29 COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake and Related Determinants in Detained Subjects in Italy Di Giuseppe, Gabriella Pelullo, Concetta Paola Lanzano, Raffaele Lombardi, Chiara Nese, Giuseppe Pavia, Maria Vaccines (Basel) Article Background: This study explored the extent of COVID-19 vaccination coverage and investigated drivers and barriers to COVID-19 vaccine uptake among people in prison. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from July to October 2021 among 517 detained people in the Campania region of South Italy. Results: In total, 47.1% of participants expressed a high concern about contracting COVID-19 after vaccination, whereas 60.6% and 53.8% of respondents reported a positive attitude towards usefulness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines, respectively. Adherence to the active offer of COVID-19 vaccination involved 89.7% of detained subjects. COVID-19 vaccination uptake was significantly higher in females, and in those who reported influenza vaccination uptake, had received information about COVID-19 vaccination from media and newspapers, did not express need of additional information about COVID-19 vaccine, believed that COVID-19 vaccine is safe, were involved in working activities in the prison, and had a high school or university degree. Conclusions: These findings showed a high self-reported COVID-19 vaccination coverage in detained subjects, supporting the effectiveness of the strategy aimed at giving priority to COVID-19 vaccinations in prisons. Further efforts are needed to contrast the hesitancy of those who refused vaccination to increase their confidence about usefulness and safety of COVID-19 vaccines. MDPI 2022-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9146091/ /pubmed/35632429 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10050673 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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Pavia, Maria
COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake and Related Determinants in Detained Subjects in Italy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9146091/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35632429
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10050673
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