Social Response to the Vaccine against COVID-19: The Underrated Power of Influence
Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the need for preventive medicine and vaccinology to be paralleled to eliminate COVID-19 cases. Methods: A web-based questionnaire was disseminated through social media in the late November assessing the factors that may hav...
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| description | Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the need for preventive medicine and vaccinology to be paralleled to eliminate COVID-19 cases. Methods: A web-based questionnaire was disseminated through social media in the late November assessing the factors that may have influenced the final response to vaccination against COVID-19 in vaccinated and non-vaccinated Greek people. Results: Women, the younger generations, and university graduates were more likely to accept vaccination, whereas men, those with a basic education level, and the older generation showed a hesitance to the vaccine against COVID-19. About half of the vaccinated participants were influenced in their final decision mainly by being informed from the internet (50.4%), their work (51.7%), and social life (53,1%) while half of the non-vaccinated individuals were mostly influenced by keeping updated from the internet (55.5%) and by government policies (51.3%). COVID-19 risk (OR 2.511; CI 2.149–2.934; <i>p</i> = 0.000), frequent vaccinations for emerging pathogens (OR 14.022; CI 11.998-16.389), and social life (OR 2.828; CI 2.417–3.309; <i>p</i> = 0.000) had a significant impact on people’s positive response to vaccination against COVID-19. Conclusions: Monitoring and assessing the influence factors for the response to vaccination can be favourable strategies to further manage societal vaccination rates. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab0df758bba948319f4c968e051afd7a2023-11-23T14:19:07ZengMDPI AGJournal of Personalized Medicine2075-44262021-12-011211510.3390/jpm12010015Social Response to the Vaccine against COVID-19: The Underrated Power of InfluenceDimitra S. Mouliou0Ioannis Pantazopoulos1Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis2Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, BIOPOLIS, 41110 Larissa, GreeceDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, BIOPOLIS, 41110 Larissa, GreeceDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, BIOPOLIS, 41110 Larissa, GreeceBackground: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the need for preventive medicine and vaccinology to be paralleled to eliminate COVID-19 cases. Methods: A web-based questionnaire was disseminated through social media in the late November assessing the factors that may have influenced the final response to vaccination against COVID-19 in vaccinated and non-vaccinated Greek people. Results: Women, the younger generations, and university graduates were more likely to accept vaccination, whereas men, those with a basic education level, and the older generation showed a hesitance to the vaccine against COVID-19. About half of the vaccinated participants were influenced in their final decision mainly by being informed from the internet (50.4%), their work (51.7%), and social life (53,1%) while half of the non-vaccinated individuals were mostly influenced by keeping updated from the internet (55.5%) and by government policies (51.3%). COVID-19 risk (OR 2.511; CI 2.149–2.934; <i>p</i> = 0.000), frequent vaccinations for emerging pathogens (OR 14.022; CI 11.998-16.389), and social life (OR 2.828; CI 2.417–3.309; <i>p</i> = 0.000) had a significant impact on people’s positive response to vaccination against COVID-19. Conclusions: Monitoring and assessing the influence factors for the response to vaccination can be favourable strategies to further manage societal vaccination rates.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4426/12/1/15COVID-19SARS-CoV-2vaccinationvaccine |
| spellingShingle | Dimitra S. Mouliou Ioannis Pantazopoulos Konstantinos I. Gourgoulianis Social Response to the Vaccine against COVID-19: The Underrated Power of Influence Journal of Personalized Medicine COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 vaccination vaccine |
| title | Social Response to the Vaccine against COVID-19: The Underrated Power of Influence |
| title_full | Social Response to the Vaccine against COVID-19: The Underrated Power of Influence |
| title_fullStr | Social Response to the Vaccine against COVID-19: The Underrated Power of Influence |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Response to the Vaccine against COVID-19: The Underrated Power of Influence |
| title_short | Social Response to the Vaccine against COVID-19: The Underrated Power of Influence |
| title_sort | social response to the vaccine against covid 19 the underrated power of influence |
| topic | COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 vaccination vaccine |
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