Predictive factors of hesitancy to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults in Spain: Results from the PSY-COVID study
Widespread population vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a matter of great interest to public health as it is the main pharmacological measure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Hesitancy/reluctance to vaccination has become a main barrier to containing the pandemic. Young adults are the age...
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| author | Corel Mateo-Canedo Juan Pablo Sanabria-Mazo Laura Comendador Juan Sebastián Rojas Meritxell Carmona Neus Crespo-Puig Fiorella Anyosa Clara Selva Albert Feliu-Soler Narcís Cardoner Juan Deus Juan V. Luciano Jorge Luis Méndez-Ülrich Antoni Sanz |
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| description | Widespread population vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a matter of great interest to public health as it is the main pharmacological measure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Hesitancy/reluctance to vaccination has become a main barrier to containing the pandemic. Young adults are the age group with the greatest resistance to vaccination, even in countries with the highest vaccination rates during this pandemic. The objective of this study was to identify the main predictive factors of vaccination intention and profile people with hesitancy/reluctance to vaccinate against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults living in Spain during the pandemic. A cross-sectional study was conducted based on the administration of an online survey (PSY-COVID-2) that evaluated the intention of vaccination together with a wide range of sociodemographic, social, cognitive, behavioral and affective variables in a sample of 2210 young adults. 14% of the sample showed hesitancy/reluctance to vaccination at the beginning of their vaccination campaign. A total of 35 factors were associated (small to medium effect sizes) with the intention to get vaccinated. A reduced set of 4 attitudinal and social variables explained 41% of the variability in vaccination intention: attitude to the vaccination, trust in health staff/scientists, conspiracy beliefs about SARS-CoV-2 and time spent being informed about COVID-19. These variables showed good sensitivity/specificity for classifying people as reluctant/not reluctant to vaccination, properly classifying 86% of people. Psychosocial processes related to attitudes, trust and information are the main predictors of vaccination intention in a highly reluctant group such as the young adult population. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce0f33e93a8f4656b74514f695fa748a2023-08-06T04:38:09ZengElsevierVaccine: X2590-13622023-08-0114100301Predictive factors of hesitancy to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults in Spain: Results from the PSY-COVID studyCorel Mateo-Canedo0Juan Pablo Sanabria-Mazo1Laura Comendador2Juan Sebastián Rojas3Meritxell Carmona4Neus Crespo-Puig5Fiorella Anyosa6Clara Selva7Albert Feliu-Soler8Narcís Cardoner9Juan Deus10Juan V. Luciano11Jorge Luis Méndez-Ülrich12Antoni Sanz13Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Oberta de Catalunya, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu, SpainUniversitat de Barcelona, SpainUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Corresponding author.Widespread population vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a matter of great interest to public health as it is the main pharmacological measure to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Hesitancy/reluctance to vaccination has become a main barrier to containing the pandemic. Young adults are the age group with the greatest resistance to vaccination, even in countries with the highest vaccination rates during this pandemic. The objective of this study was to identify the main predictive factors of vaccination intention and profile people with hesitancy/reluctance to vaccinate against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults living in Spain during the pandemic. A cross-sectional study was conducted based on the administration of an online survey (PSY-COVID-2) that evaluated the intention of vaccination together with a wide range of sociodemographic, social, cognitive, behavioral and affective variables in a sample of 2210 young adults. 14% of the sample showed hesitancy/reluctance to vaccination at the beginning of their vaccination campaign. A total of 35 factors were associated (small to medium effect sizes) with the intention to get vaccinated. A reduced set of 4 attitudinal and social variables explained 41% of the variability in vaccination intention: attitude to the vaccination, trust in health staff/scientists, conspiracy beliefs about SARS-CoV-2 and time spent being informed about COVID-19. These variables showed good sensitivity/specificity for classifying people as reluctant/not reluctant to vaccination, properly classifying 86% of people. Psychosocial processes related to attitudes, trust and information are the main predictors of vaccination intention in a highly reluctant group such as the young adult population.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590136223000426COVID-19HesitancyReluctanceVaccinationAttitudesBeliefs |
| spellingShingle | Corel Mateo-Canedo Juan Pablo Sanabria-Mazo Laura Comendador Juan Sebastián Rojas Meritxell Carmona Neus Crespo-Puig Fiorella Anyosa Clara Selva Albert Feliu-Soler Narcís Cardoner Juan Deus Juan V. Luciano Jorge Luis Méndez-Ülrich Antoni Sanz Predictive factors of hesitancy to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults in Spain: Results from the PSY-COVID study Vaccine: X COVID-19 Hesitancy Reluctance Vaccination Attitudes Beliefs |
| title | Predictive factors of hesitancy to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults in Spain: Results from the PSY-COVID study |
| title_full | Predictive factors of hesitancy to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults in Spain: Results from the PSY-COVID study |
| title_fullStr | Predictive factors of hesitancy to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults in Spain: Results from the PSY-COVID study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Predictive factors of hesitancy to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults in Spain: Results from the PSY-COVID study |
| title_short | Predictive factors of hesitancy to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 virus in young adults in Spain: Results from the PSY-COVID study |
| title_sort | predictive factors of hesitancy to vaccination against sars cov 2 virus in young adults in spain results from the psy covid study |
| topic | COVID-19 Hesitancy Reluctance Vaccination Attitudes Beliefs |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590136223000426 |
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