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Courtney E Bonnema, Irene van Woerden, Joshua R Steinberg
1College of Pharmacy, Idaho State University, 2533 Providence Drive, Professional Studies Bldg. 111C, Anchorage, AK 99508, USA. Tel 907-786-6233. reneerobinson@isu.edu.
Introduction:
Vaccine hesitancy (VH), delay in acceptance, and/or refusal to vaccinate is influenced by complacency, confidence, unmet safety, and efficacy concerns. A survey was conducted among U.S. healthcare students to identify factors contributing to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
Methods:
The World Health Organization 2014 vaccine hesitancy guidelines informed development of a 37-item survey. This cross-sectional survey was distributed to students in 10 randomly selected nursing, pharmacy, and medical programs. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression were used to identify factors contributing to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
Results:
Of the 902 participants who started the survey, 398 completed all COVID-19 questions. Survey respondents were primarily from private schools (84%) and consisted of medical students (49%), female (71%), and millennials (57%). Students believed COVID-19 vaccine was important and protection of vulnerable communities more important than individual protection. Students in general agreed getting the vaccine was necessary to protect others (school and healthcare facilities) (77.4%); only one-third (33.7%) disagreed that they planned to wait and want to see how vaccine affected others before receiving it. Logistic regression results suggest significant differences based on program and political affiliation.
Conclusions:
Engagement of healthcare students may help reach student peers who are vaccine hesitant and help reduce the spread of COVID-19.
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