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Vaccine Uptake and COVID-19 Frequency in Pregnant Syrian Immigrant Women
Immigrants have difficulties in the use of essential health services such as vaccinations. Vaccine uptake among pregnant immigrant women is very low. The aim of the study was to examine the vaccination status of pregnant immigrant women who received health services in an immigrant health center (IHC...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9966866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36851135 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11020257 |
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author | Sezerol, Mehmet Akif Altaş, Zeynep Meva |
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description | Immigrants have difficulties in the use of essential health services such as vaccinations. Vaccine uptake among pregnant immigrant women is very low. The aim of the study was to examine the vaccination status of pregnant immigrant women who received health services in an immigrant health center (IHC) affiliated to primary health care institutions. The research is a retrospective-designed cross-sectional type of study. The study sample consists of pregnant Syrian women who received health care from the strengthened IHC of a District Health Directorate in Istanbul between August 2020 and 2022. Age, trimesters, number of pregnancies, high-risk pregnancy status, vaccination dates and status against influenza, COVID-19 and tetanus, and vaccine types of COVID-19 were evaluated. The statistical significance level was determined as p < 0.05. None of the pregnant women had received the influenza vaccine. Of the women whose tetanus vaccine data were evaluated, 29.7% had received at least two doses of the tetanus vaccine. Of the pregnant women, 19.4% were vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum two doses and 4.2% had a COVID-19 infection during their pregnancy. None of the women with the COVID-19 infection were fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The vaccine uptake of pregnant immigrant women is very low. Public health interventions are needed to improve vaccination coverage among disadvantaged groups. |
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spelling | pubmed-99668662023-02-26 Vaccine Uptake and COVID-19 Frequency in Pregnant Syrian Immigrant Women Sezerol, Mehmet Akif Altaş, Zeynep Meva Vaccines (Basel) Article Immigrants have difficulties in the use of essential health services such as vaccinations. Vaccine uptake among pregnant immigrant women is very low. The aim of the study was to examine the vaccination status of pregnant immigrant women who received health services in an immigrant health center (IHC) affiliated to primary health care institutions. The research is a retrospective-designed cross-sectional type of study. The study sample consists of pregnant Syrian women who received health care from the strengthened IHC of a District Health Directorate in Istanbul between August 2020 and 2022. Age, trimesters, number of pregnancies, high-risk pregnancy status, vaccination dates and status against influenza, COVID-19 and tetanus, and vaccine types of COVID-19 were evaluated. The statistical significance level was determined as p < 0.05. None of the pregnant women had received the influenza vaccine. Of the women whose tetanus vaccine data were evaluated, 29.7% had received at least two doses of the tetanus vaccine. Of the pregnant women, 19.4% were vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum two doses and 4.2% had a COVID-19 infection during their pregnancy. None of the women with the COVID-19 infection were fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The vaccine uptake of pregnant immigrant women is very low. Public health interventions are needed to improve vaccination coverage among disadvantaged groups. MDPI 2023-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9966866/ /pubmed/36851135 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11020257 Text en © 2023 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/). |
spellingShingle | Article Sezerol, Mehmet Akif Altaş, Zeynep Meva Vaccine Uptake and COVID-19 Frequency in Pregnant Syrian Immigrant Women |
title | Vaccine Uptake and COVID-19 Frequency in Pregnant Syrian Immigrant Women |
title_full | Vaccine Uptake and COVID-19 Frequency in Pregnant Syrian Immigrant Women |
title_fullStr | Vaccine Uptake and COVID-19 Frequency in Pregnant Syrian Immigrant Women |
title_full_unstemmed | Vaccine Uptake and COVID-19 Frequency in Pregnant Syrian Immigrant Women |
title_short | Vaccine Uptake and COVID-19 Frequency in Pregnant Syrian Immigrant Women |
title_sort | vaccine uptake and covid-19 frequency in pregnant syrian immigrant women |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9966866/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36851135 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11020257 |
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