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Vaccination Coverage during Childhood and Adolescence among Undergraduate Health Science Students in Greece

High rates of vaccination coverage in childhood represent one of the most important cost-effective tools of primary prevention and have substantially reduced the incidence of and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases globally. Vaccination coverage of young people has not been well estimated in...

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Autores principales: Andrie, Elisabeth K., Sakellari, Evanthia, Barbouni, Anastasia, Tsitsika, Artemis K., Lagiou, Areti
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9601163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36291489
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9101553
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author Andrie, Elisabeth K.
Sakellari, Evanthia
Barbouni, Anastasia
Tsitsika, Artemis K.
Lagiou, Areti
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Sakellari, Evanthia
Barbouni, Anastasia
Tsitsika, Artemis K.
Lagiou, Areti
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description High rates of vaccination coverage in childhood represent one of the most important cost-effective tools of primary prevention and have substantially reduced the incidence of and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases globally. Vaccination coverage of young people has not been well estimated in Greece. Anonymous self-completed questionnaires and the participants’ Child Health Booklet were used to estimate complete vaccination coverage of mandatory vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases of undergraduate students at the University of West Attica during the academic year 2020–2021. Student’s t-tests were used to estimate mean values. Overall, 79% (95% CI: 78–81%) of study participants were fully vaccinated. This coverage was lower in males especially for vaccines that should be done during childhood (p = 0.045). High vaccination percentage (>90%) was observed for the meningococcus group A, C, W135, Y, measles-mumps-rubella, hepatitis B and meningitis C vaccine. Nevertheless, suboptimal coverage was assessed for the booster dose of tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, for the human papillomavirus vaccine among girls, for the tuberculosis, for the meningococcus group B, for the pneumococcal, and for the seasonal influenza vaccines. In conclusion, the promotion of routine vaccination programs for young adults needs to be strengthened. An identification system for under-vaccinated students, an efficient reminder system and university campus vaccine program practices should be established, particularly among males.
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spelling pubmed-96011632022-10-27 Vaccination Coverage during Childhood and Adolescence among Undergraduate Health Science Students in Greece Andrie, Elisabeth K. Sakellari, Evanthia Barbouni, Anastasia Tsitsika, Artemis K. Lagiou, Areti Children (Basel) Article High rates of vaccination coverage in childhood represent one of the most important cost-effective tools of primary prevention and have substantially reduced the incidence of and mortality from vaccine-preventable diseases globally. Vaccination coverage of young people has not been well estimated in Greece. Anonymous self-completed questionnaires and the participants’ Child Health Booklet were used to estimate complete vaccination coverage of mandatory vaccinations against vaccine-preventable diseases of undergraduate students at the University of West Attica during the academic year 2020–2021. Student’s t-tests were used to estimate mean values. Overall, 79% (95% CI: 78–81%) of study participants were fully vaccinated. This coverage was lower in males especially for vaccines that should be done during childhood (p = 0.045). High vaccination percentage (>90%) was observed for the meningococcus group A, C, W135, Y, measles-mumps-rubella, hepatitis B and meningitis C vaccine. Nevertheless, suboptimal coverage was assessed for the booster dose of tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, for the human papillomavirus vaccine among girls, for the tuberculosis, for the meningococcus group B, for the pneumococcal, and for the seasonal influenza vaccines. In conclusion, the promotion of routine vaccination programs for young adults needs to be strengthened. An identification system for under-vaccinated students, an efficient reminder system and university campus vaccine program practices should be established, particularly among males. MDPI 2022-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9601163/ /pubmed/36291489 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9101553 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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Vaccination Coverage during Childhood and Adolescence among Undergraduate Health Science Students in Greece
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title_fullStr Vaccination Coverage during Childhood and Adolescence among Undergraduate Health Science Students in Greece
title_full_unstemmed Vaccination Coverage during Childhood and Adolescence among Undergraduate Health Science Students in Greece
title_short Vaccination Coverage during Childhood and Adolescence among Undergraduate Health Science Students in Greece
title_sort vaccination coverage during childhood and adolescence among undergraduate health science students in greece
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9601163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36291489
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9101553
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