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Prevalence of vaccination against the Covid19 within mentally ill population and acceptance and hesitancy factors
INTRODUCTION: Vaccines are effective interventions that can reduce the high burden of COVID19 globally. However, public vaccine hesitancy is a pressing problem for public health authorities. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of vaccination within mentally ill population and to po...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9567815/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1386 |
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author | Makni, K. Zouari, L. Feki, R. Smaoui, N. Omri, S. Gassara, I. Maalej, M. Ben Thabet, J. Charfi, N. Maalej, M. |
author_facet | Makni, K. Zouari, L. Feki, R. Smaoui, N. Omri, S. Gassara, I. Maalej, M. Ben Thabet, J. Charfi, N. Maalej, M. |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Vaccines are effective interventions that can reduce the high burden of COVID19 globally. However, public vaccine hesitancy is a pressing problem for public health authorities. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of vaccination within mentally ill population and to point out the factors of acceptance and reticence. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study. It was carried out on a clinical population who consult in the psychiatry department in Sfax’s university hospital Hedi Chaker. Patients included in our study were aged between 21 and 69 years and were not in a decompensation phase of their psychiatric illness RESULTS: Forty five patients were included. The mean age was 45±13 years old. Our population was made up of 3 women (6.7%) and 42 men (93.3%).A rate of 42.2% of the patients was of urban origin, 15.6% lived with a partner, 77.8% were unemployed and 46.7% were schizophrenic. In our study population, five patients had COVID 19 (11.1%), fourteen patients (31.1%) were vaccinated and eight patients (17.8%) asked their psychiatrist to vaccine. The main reasons of vaccination were their belief that vaccination decreases the chance of contracting COVID 19 and its complications (0.00) ,that COVID is lethal (0.002), and the fact that they trust it (0.001). Thirtyone patients (68.9%) refused vaccination, mainly due to reading or hearing negative information about vaccination (0.025). Vaccination wasn’t correlated neither to the fact that it could be a conspiracy nor to the diagnostic. CONCLUSIONS: Our study reveals that one third of mentally ill patients are vaccinated. The reasons of acceptance of vaccination are multiple in opposite of the hesitancy factors DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. |
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spelling | pubmed-95678152022-10-17 Prevalence of vaccination against the Covid19 within mentally ill population and acceptance and hesitancy factors Makni, K. Zouari, L. Feki, R. Smaoui, N. Omri, S. Gassara, I. Maalej, M. Ben Thabet, J. Charfi, N. Maalej, M. Eur Psychiatry Abstract INTRODUCTION: Vaccines are effective interventions that can reduce the high burden of COVID19 globally. However, public vaccine hesitancy is a pressing problem for public health authorities. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of vaccination within mentally ill population and to point out the factors of acceptance and reticence. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study. It was carried out on a clinical population who consult in the psychiatry department in Sfax’s university hospital Hedi Chaker. Patients included in our study were aged between 21 and 69 years and were not in a decompensation phase of their psychiatric illness RESULTS: Forty five patients were included. The mean age was 45±13 years old. Our population was made up of 3 women (6.7%) and 42 men (93.3%).A rate of 42.2% of the patients was of urban origin, 15.6% lived with a partner, 77.8% were unemployed and 46.7% were schizophrenic. In our study population, five patients had COVID 19 (11.1%), fourteen patients (31.1%) were vaccinated and eight patients (17.8%) asked their psychiatrist to vaccine. The main reasons of vaccination were their belief that vaccination decreases the chance of contracting COVID 19 and its complications (0.00) ,that COVID is lethal (0.002), and the fact that they trust it (0.001). Thirtyone patients (68.9%) refused vaccination, mainly due to reading or hearing negative information about vaccination (0.025). Vaccination wasn’t correlated neither to the fact that it could be a conspiracy nor to the diagnostic. CONCLUSIONS: Our study reveals that one third of mentally ill patients are vaccinated. The reasons of acceptance of vaccination are multiple in opposite of the hesitancy factors DISCLOSURE: No significant relationships. Cambridge University Press 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9567815/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1386 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Abstract Makni, K. Zouari, L. Feki, R. Smaoui, N. Omri, S. Gassara, I. Maalej, M. Ben Thabet, J. Charfi, N. Maalej, M. Prevalence of vaccination against the Covid19 within mentally ill population and acceptance and hesitancy factors |
title | Prevalence of vaccination against the Covid19 within mentally ill population and acceptance and hesitancy factors |
title_full | Prevalence of vaccination against the Covid19 within mentally ill population and acceptance and hesitancy factors |
title_fullStr | Prevalence of vaccination against the Covid19 within mentally ill population and acceptance and hesitancy factors |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of vaccination against the Covid19 within mentally ill population and acceptance and hesitancy factors |
title_short | Prevalence of vaccination against the Covid19 within mentally ill population and acceptance and hesitancy factors |
title_sort | prevalence of vaccination against the covid19 within mentally ill population and acceptance and hesitancy factors |
topic | Abstract |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9567815/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2022.1386 |
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