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Faith, Fear, and Facts: A COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Intervention for Black Church Congregations
Background: Blacks are dying from the novel coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19) at disproportionate rates and tend to have more COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy than Whites. These disparities may be attributable to health knowledge and government/medical mistrust stemming from negative experiences with the med...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320174/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35891203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10071039 |
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author | Peteet, Bridgette Watts, Valerie Tucker, Eunique Brown, Paige Hanna, Mariam Saddlemire, Amanda Rizk, Miriam Belliard, Juan Carlos Abdul-Mutakabbir, Jacinda C. Casey, Samuel Simmons, Kelvin |
author_facet | Peteet, Bridgette Watts, Valerie Tucker, Eunique Brown, Paige Hanna, Mariam Saddlemire, Amanda Rizk, Miriam Belliard, Juan Carlos Abdul-Mutakabbir, Jacinda C. Casey, Samuel Simmons, Kelvin |
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description | Background: Blacks are dying from the novel coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19) at disproportionate rates and tend to have more COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy than Whites. These disparities may be attributable to health knowledge and government/medical mistrust stemming from negative experiences with the medical system historically and presently (e.g., the Tuskegee Experiment, provider maltreatment). Method: The present study assessed COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and the effectiveness of a 1.5 h, dialogue-based, web intervention hosted by an academic–community partnership team. The webinar included approximately 220 male and female, English speaking, Black churchgoers in the western U.S. The webinar focused on the psychology of fear and facts about the vaccine development. Results: The sample was mostly females who had higher vaccine hesitancy than men. A third of participants feared hospitalization if they contracted COVID-19. Many participants reported that learning facts about COVID-19 was most impactful. Statistical analyses indicated an increased willingness to get vaccinated after the webinar in comparison to before (t(25) = −3.08, p = 0.005). Conclusion: The findings suggest that virtual webinars may be effective at reducing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Black churchgoers and may be applicable in addressing other health behaviors. |
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spelling | pubmed-93201742022-07-27 Faith, Fear, and Facts: A COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Intervention for Black Church Congregations Peteet, Bridgette Watts, Valerie Tucker, Eunique Brown, Paige Hanna, Mariam Saddlemire, Amanda Rizk, Miriam Belliard, Juan Carlos Abdul-Mutakabbir, Jacinda C. Casey, Samuel Simmons, Kelvin Vaccines (Basel) Article Background: Blacks are dying from the novel coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19) at disproportionate rates and tend to have more COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy than Whites. These disparities may be attributable to health knowledge and government/medical mistrust stemming from negative experiences with the medical system historically and presently (e.g., the Tuskegee Experiment, provider maltreatment). Method: The present study assessed COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and the effectiveness of a 1.5 h, dialogue-based, web intervention hosted by an academic–community partnership team. The webinar included approximately 220 male and female, English speaking, Black churchgoers in the western U.S. The webinar focused on the psychology of fear and facts about the vaccine development. Results: The sample was mostly females who had higher vaccine hesitancy than men. A third of participants feared hospitalization if they contracted COVID-19. Many participants reported that learning facts about COVID-19 was most impactful. Statistical analyses indicated an increased willingness to get vaccinated after the webinar in comparison to before (t(25) = −3.08, p = 0.005). Conclusion: The findings suggest that virtual webinars may be effective at reducing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Black churchgoers and may be applicable in addressing other health behaviors. MDPI 2022-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9320174/ /pubmed/35891203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10071039 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Peteet, Bridgette Watts, Valerie Tucker, Eunique Brown, Paige Hanna, Mariam Saddlemire, Amanda Rizk, Miriam Belliard, Juan Carlos Abdul-Mutakabbir, Jacinda C. Casey, Samuel Simmons, Kelvin Faith, Fear, and Facts: A COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Intervention for Black Church Congregations |
title | Faith, Fear, and Facts: A COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Intervention for Black Church Congregations |
title_full | Faith, Fear, and Facts: A COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Intervention for Black Church Congregations |
title_fullStr | Faith, Fear, and Facts: A COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Intervention for Black Church Congregations |
title_full_unstemmed | Faith, Fear, and Facts: A COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Intervention for Black Church Congregations |
title_short | Faith, Fear, and Facts: A COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Intervention for Black Church Congregations |
title_sort | faith, fear, and facts: a covid-19 vaccination hesitancy intervention for black church congregations |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320174/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35891203 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10071039 |
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