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Perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among Chinese college students: A mediation analysis
BACKGROUND: Although COVID-19 vaccines hold the potential to dramatically alter the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy remains a serious threat to the management and control of COVID-19 infections. Vaccination of young adults plays a crucial role in achieving herd immunity. However, the determinan...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9439250/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36054110 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273285 |
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author | Jiang, Fangfang Zhao, Yang Bai, Jianling Yang, Xueying Zhang, Jiajia Lin, Danhua Li, Xiaoming |
author_facet | Jiang, Fangfang Zhao, Yang Bai, Jianling Yang, Xueying Zhang, Jiajia Lin, Danhua Li, Xiaoming |
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description | BACKGROUND: Although COVID-19 vaccines hold the potential to dramatically alter the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy remains a serious threat to the management and control of COVID-19 infections. Vaccination of young adults plays a crucial role in achieving herd immunity. However, the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among the youth in China have not been fully explored. Our study aims to investigate the direct and indirect effects of perceived health literacy on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. METHODS: This survey was conducted among Chinese college students during September and October, 2020. COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was defined as the likelihood that participants would get a COVID-19 vaccine. A mediation analysis was employed to explore the direct and indirect effects of perceived health literacy on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. RESULTS: A total of 2,587 college students were included in our study. The results of the survey revealed that the majority (80.40%) of the participants expressed high COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. After controlling for demographic characteristics, the relationship between perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was mediated by positive attitudes toward general vaccination (std.β = 0.004, p = 0.037) and self-efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine (std.β = 0.053, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that interventions targeting health literacy to promote COVID-19 vaccination coverage might consider placing greater emphasis on enhancing the positive attitude towards and self-efficacy of vaccines among youth. |
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spelling | pubmed-94392502022-09-03 Perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among Chinese college students: A mediation analysis Jiang, Fangfang Zhao, Yang Bai, Jianling Yang, Xueying Zhang, Jiajia Lin, Danhua Li, Xiaoming PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Although COVID-19 vaccines hold the potential to dramatically alter the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine hesitancy remains a serious threat to the management and control of COVID-19 infections. Vaccination of young adults plays a crucial role in achieving herd immunity. However, the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among the youth in China have not been fully explored. Our study aims to investigate the direct and indirect effects of perceived health literacy on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. METHODS: This survey was conducted among Chinese college students during September and October, 2020. COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was defined as the likelihood that participants would get a COVID-19 vaccine. A mediation analysis was employed to explore the direct and indirect effects of perceived health literacy on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. RESULTS: A total of 2,587 college students were included in our study. The results of the survey revealed that the majority (80.40%) of the participants expressed high COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. After controlling for demographic characteristics, the relationship between perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was mediated by positive attitudes toward general vaccination (std.β = 0.004, p = 0.037) and self-efficacy of COVID-19 vaccine (std.β = 0.053, p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The findings suggest that interventions targeting health literacy to promote COVID-19 vaccination coverage might consider placing greater emphasis on enhancing the positive attitude towards and self-efficacy of vaccines among youth. Public Library of Science 2022-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9439250/ /pubmed/36054110 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273285 Text en © 2022 Jiang 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 Jiang, Fangfang Zhao, Yang Bai, Jianling Yang, Xueying Zhang, Jiajia Lin, Danhua Li, Xiaoming Perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among Chinese college students: A mediation analysis |
title | Perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among Chinese college students: A mediation analysis |
title_full | Perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among Chinese college students: A mediation analysis |
title_fullStr | Perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among Chinese college students: A mediation analysis |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among Chinese college students: A mediation analysis |
title_short | Perceived health literacy and COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among Chinese college students: A mediation analysis |
title_sort | perceived health literacy and covid-19 vaccine acceptance among chinese college students: a mediation analysis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9439250/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36054110 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273285 |
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