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COVID-19 vaccine literacy and vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women and mothers of young children in Japan

BACKGROUND: Delays in the spread of vaccination have been recognized as an urgent public health issue in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine literacy (VL) is a critical determinant of vaccine uptake; however, little is known about VL among pregnant women and mothers of young children. METH...

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Autores principales: Takahashi, Yoko, Ishitsuka, Kazue, Sampei, Makiko, Okawa, Sumiyo, Hosokawa, Yoshihiko, Ishiguro, Akira, Tabuchi, Takahiro, Morisaki, Naho
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9574944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36266127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.09.094
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author Takahashi, Yoko
Ishitsuka, Kazue
Sampei, Makiko
Okawa, Sumiyo
Hosokawa, Yoshihiko
Ishiguro, Akira
Tabuchi, Takahiro
Morisaki, Naho
author_facet Takahashi, Yoko
Ishitsuka, Kazue
Sampei, Makiko
Okawa, Sumiyo
Hosokawa, Yoshihiko
Ishiguro, Akira
Tabuchi, Takahiro
Morisaki, Naho
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description BACKGROUND: Delays in the spread of vaccination have been recognized as an urgent public health issue in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine literacy (VL) is a critical determinant of vaccine uptake; however, little is known about VL among pregnant women and mothers of young children. METHODS: We analyzed data from a nationwide, cross-sectional internet survey in Japan on VL and vaccine hesitancy, conducted with 1,639 pregnant women and 5,688 mothers of young children who had given birth after July 2019, between July 24 and August 30, 2021. RESULTS: Vaccine hesitancy was observed in 51.1 % of pregnant women and 31.9 % of mothers of young children. The risk of vaccine hesitancy was significantly higher among pregnant women with lower interactive/critical skills (risk ratio [RR] 2.10, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 1.59, 2.78, p < 0.001), although functional skills did not significantly correlate with vaccine hesitancy. For mothers of young children, we found a significantly higher risk of vaccine hesitancy among those with low VL functional skills (RR 1.38, 95 % CI 1.19, 1.61), p < 0.001) and low interactive/critical skills (RR 1.29, 95 % CI 1.10, 1.50, p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that aiding individuals to correctly evaluate vaccine-related information is critical for improving vaccine acceptance rates among both pregnant women and mothers of young children. Meanwhile, improving the comprehensibility of communication toolkits may be important for women with children but have a limited effect among pregnant women.
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spelling pubmed-95749442022-10-17 COVID-19 vaccine literacy and vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women and mothers of young children in Japan Takahashi, Yoko Ishitsuka, Kazue Sampei, Makiko Okawa, Sumiyo Hosokawa, Yoshihiko Ishiguro, Akira Tabuchi, Takahiro Morisaki, Naho Vaccine Article BACKGROUND: Delays in the spread of vaccination have been recognized as an urgent public health issue in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine literacy (VL) is a critical determinant of vaccine uptake; however, little is known about VL among pregnant women and mothers of young children. METHODS: We analyzed data from a nationwide, cross-sectional internet survey in Japan on VL and vaccine hesitancy, conducted with 1,639 pregnant women and 5,688 mothers of young children who had given birth after July 2019, between July 24 and August 30, 2021. RESULTS: Vaccine hesitancy was observed in 51.1 % of pregnant women and 31.9 % of mothers of young children. The risk of vaccine hesitancy was significantly higher among pregnant women with lower interactive/critical skills (risk ratio [RR] 2.10, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 1.59, 2.78, p < 0.001), although functional skills did not significantly correlate with vaccine hesitancy. For mothers of young children, we found a significantly higher risk of vaccine hesitancy among those with low VL functional skills (RR 1.38, 95 % CI 1.19, 1.61), p < 0.001) and low interactive/critical skills (RR 1.29, 95 % CI 1.10, 1.50, p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that aiding individuals to correctly evaluate vaccine-related information is critical for improving vaccine acceptance rates among both pregnant women and mothers of young children. Meanwhile, improving the comprehensibility of communication toolkits may be important for women with children but have a limited effect among pregnant women. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-11-08 2022-10-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9574944/ /pubmed/36266127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.09.094 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Ishitsuka, Kazue
Sampei, Makiko
Okawa, Sumiyo
Hosokawa, Yoshihiko
Ishiguro, Akira
Tabuchi, Takahiro
Morisaki, Naho
COVID-19 vaccine literacy and vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women and mothers of young children in Japan
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title_fullStr COVID-19 vaccine literacy and vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women and mothers of young children in Japan
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 vaccine literacy and vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women and mothers of young children in Japan
title_short COVID-19 vaccine literacy and vaccine hesitancy among pregnant women and mothers of young children in Japan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9574944/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36266127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.09.094
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