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Medical student attitudes on vaccination relevance: A mixed-method study
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The study aims to investigate the attitudes of medical students regarding the importance and relevance of vaccinations, whether vaccinations should be compulsory and how to employ a new teaching concept to deal with vaccination-critical parents. METHODS: This mixed-method...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9401119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36001609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273529 |
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author | Herrmann-Werner, Anne Festl-Wietek, Teresa Gille, Christian Zipfel, Stephan Wiechers, Steffen |
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description | BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The study aims to investigate the attitudes of medical students regarding the importance and relevance of vaccinations, whether vaccinations should be compulsory and how to employ a new teaching concept to deal with vaccination-critical parents. METHODS: This mixed-method study consists of a quantitative questionnaire and focus groups. Quantitative data were analysed by calculating the descriptive statistics, and interviews were analysed using Mayring’s content analysis. RESULTS: A total of 170 medical students completed the questionnaire, and 59 students participated in 9 focus groups. Students reported that they felt more confident dealing with vaccination-critical parents after learning the new teaching concept. Similar results were found for medical students prior to and during the pandemic. During the pandemic, medical students viewed vaccinations for several diseases, such as measles or COVID-19, as important (range: M = 3.56, SD = 0.54 to M = 3.97, SD = 0.17). Similar results were found for medical students prior to the pandemic (range: M = 3.26, SD = 0.77 to M = 3.94, SD = 0.24). In the focus groups, however, medical students displayed controversial attitudes regarding compulsory vaccinations. CONCLUSIONS: While the medical students agreed on the use of vaccination for highly infectious diseases, their level of agreement decreased depending on the severity of the disease. Practical recommendations that come out of the study are creating a trustful relationship with and delivering information to patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-94011192022-08-25 Medical student attitudes on vaccination relevance: A mixed-method study Herrmann-Werner, Anne Festl-Wietek, Teresa Gille, Christian Zipfel, Stephan Wiechers, Steffen PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The study aims to investigate the attitudes of medical students regarding the importance and relevance of vaccinations, whether vaccinations should be compulsory and how to employ a new teaching concept to deal with vaccination-critical parents. METHODS: This mixed-method study consists of a quantitative questionnaire and focus groups. Quantitative data were analysed by calculating the descriptive statistics, and interviews were analysed using Mayring’s content analysis. RESULTS: A total of 170 medical students completed the questionnaire, and 59 students participated in 9 focus groups. Students reported that they felt more confident dealing with vaccination-critical parents after learning the new teaching concept. Similar results were found for medical students prior to and during the pandemic. During the pandemic, medical students viewed vaccinations for several diseases, such as measles or COVID-19, as important (range: M = 3.56, SD = 0.54 to M = 3.97, SD = 0.17). Similar results were found for medical students prior to the pandemic (range: M = 3.26, SD = 0.77 to M = 3.94, SD = 0.24). In the focus groups, however, medical students displayed controversial attitudes regarding compulsory vaccinations. CONCLUSIONS: While the medical students agreed on the use of vaccination for highly infectious diseases, their level of agreement decreased depending on the severity of the disease. Practical recommendations that come out of the study are creating a trustful relationship with and delivering information to patients. Public Library of Science 2022-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9401119/ /pubmed/36001609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273529 Text en © 2022 Herrmann-Werner et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Herrmann-Werner, Anne Festl-Wietek, Teresa Gille, Christian Zipfel, Stephan Wiechers, Steffen Medical student attitudes on vaccination relevance: A mixed-method study |
title | Medical student attitudes on vaccination relevance: A mixed-method study |
title_full | Medical student attitudes on vaccination relevance: A mixed-method study |
title_fullStr | Medical student attitudes on vaccination relevance: A mixed-method study |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical student attitudes on vaccination relevance: A mixed-method study |
title_short | Medical student attitudes on vaccination relevance: A mixed-method study |
title_sort | medical student attitudes on vaccination relevance: a mixed-method study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9401119/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36001609 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273529 |
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