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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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Autores principales: 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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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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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
author_sort Peteet, Bridgette
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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/).
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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
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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
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9320174/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10071039
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