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COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among College Students at a Midwest University
- Source :
- Journal of Community Health
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- COVID-19 is responsible for over 750,000 Americans deaths. Despite efforts to vaccinate, many college students are hesitant. Hesitancy has hindered efforts to achieve high COVID-19 vaccination rates. Students at a Midwest university completed an online survey. Questions included COVID-19 vaccination intent and behavior. Over 1600 students participated. Half reported being vaccinated. Of those not vaccinated, 49% did not intend to get vaccinated, and 22% were undecided. Reasons for hesitancy included not trusting the vaccine was fully tested (85%), fear of potential side effects (78%), not trusting the vaccine is safe (72%), not trusting the US government (61%), and having read negative reports from the media about the vaccine (60%). Additionally, students were concerned the vaccine was not safe (B = − 0.902; 95% Χ2 = 11.68; p = 0.001) and that it could not protect them from COVID-19 (B = − 0.834; Χ2 = 12.43; p
- Subjects :
- Original Paper
Government
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
medicine.medical_specialty
COVID-19 Vaccines
Health (social science)
Universities
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Vaccination
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
Family medicine
Humans
Medicine
College students
Students
business
Vaccine hesitancy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733610 and 00945145
- Volume :
- 47
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Community Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....70c546ef92dffbf9cee5eabe1831a128