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Pregnant women's perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine: A French national survey
INTRODUCTION: Pregnant women are at increased risk for COVID-19, and COVID-19 vaccine is the most promising solution to overcome the current pandemic. This study was conducted to evaluate pregnant women's perceptions and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-section...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9153296/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gofs.2022.02.055 |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Pregnant women are at increased risk for COVID-19, and COVID-19 vaccine is the most promising solution to overcome the current pandemic. This study was conducted to evaluate pregnant women's perceptions and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted from February 18 to April 5 2021. An anonymous survey was distributed in 7 French obstetrics departments to all pregnant women before a prenatal visit. All pregnant women attending a follow-up consultation were asked to participate in the study. An anonymous web survey was available through a QR code and participants were asked whether or not they would agree to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, and why. The questionnaire included questions on the patients’ demographics and their knowledge of COVID-19 vaccines. RESULTS: Of the 664 pregnant women who completed the questionnaire, 29.5% (95% CI: 27.7–31.3) indicated they would agree to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The main reason for not agreeing was being more afraid of potential side effects of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on the fetus than of COVID-19. Factors influencing acceptance of vaccination were: being slightly older, multiparity, having discussed it with a caregiver and acceptance of the influenza vaccine. DISCUSSION: Nearly one-third of pregnant women in this population would be willing to be vaccinated. In addition to studies establishing fetal safety, public health agencies and healthcare professionals should provide accurate information about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. |
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spelling | pubmed-91532962022-05-31 Pregnant women's perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine: A French national survey Egloff, C. Gynecol Obstet Fertil Senol Co-54 INTRODUCTION: Pregnant women are at increased risk for COVID-19, and COVID-19 vaccine is the most promising solution to overcome the current pandemic. This study was conducted to evaluate pregnant women's perceptions and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted from February 18 to April 5 2021. An anonymous survey was distributed in 7 French obstetrics departments to all pregnant women before a prenatal visit. All pregnant women attending a follow-up consultation were asked to participate in the study. An anonymous web survey was available through a QR code and participants were asked whether or not they would agree to be vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, and why. The questionnaire included questions on the patients’ demographics and their knowledge of COVID-19 vaccines. RESULTS: Of the 664 pregnant women who completed the questionnaire, 29.5% (95% CI: 27.7–31.3) indicated they would agree to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The main reason for not agreeing was being more afraid of potential side effects of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on the fetus than of COVID-19. Factors influencing acceptance of vaccination were: being slightly older, multiparity, having discussed it with a caregiver and acceptance of the influenza vaccine. DISCUSSION: Nearly one-third of pregnant women in this population would be willing to be vaccinated. In addition to studies establishing fetal safety, public health agencies and healthcare professionals should provide accurate information about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS 2022-05 2022-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9153296/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gofs.2022.02.055 Text en Copyright © 2022 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 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 | Co-54 Egloff, C. Pregnant women's perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine: A French national survey |
title | Pregnant women's perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine: A French national survey |
title_full | Pregnant women's perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine: A French national survey |
title_fullStr | Pregnant women's perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine: A French national survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Pregnant women's perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine: A French national survey |
title_short | Pregnant women's perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine: A French national survey |
title_sort | pregnant women's perceptions of the covid-19 vaccine: a french national survey |
topic | Co-54 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9153296/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gofs.2022.02.055 |
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