使用NIS-Teen调查对COVID-19前后流感疫苗接种预测因素的比较
Ty J Skyles1, Harlan P Stevens1, Spencer C Davis1
1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA.
Vaccines
|October 26, 2024
概括
青少年的季节性流感疫苗接种率很低. 年长的青少年,非西班牙裔黑人身份以及社会经济因素降低了接种率,而提供者参与儿童疫苗等计划增加了接种率.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 疫苗学 疫苗学 疫苗学
背景情况:
- 在青少年群体中,季节性流感疫苗接种率仍然显著低.
- 了解青少年流感疫苗接种障碍和促进因素对于公共卫生倡议至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查影响青少年接种季节性流感疫苗的因素.
- 使用国家免疫调查-青少年 (NIS-Teen) 数据集来确定疫苗接受的关键预测因素.
主要方法:
- 采用传统的阶段性多变量回归分析.
- 集成机器学习技术,以提高青少年接种疫苗的预测因素的识别.
主要成果:
- 年龄是主要的预测因素;年龄较大的青少年的疫苗接种率明显较低 (97.48%对41.71%).
- 提供者参与政府计划 (例如,儿童疫苗) 和国家疫苗注册表与吸收有积极的相关性.
- 确定非西班牙裔黑人是一个轻微的负面预测因素;更高的州COVID-19疫苗接种四分位数强烈预测了更高的流感疫苗接种率.
结论:
- 影响青少年流感疫苗接种的关键因素包括年龄,提供者计划参与,种族/种族和社会经济地位.
- 国家一级的COVID-19疫苗接种是青少年流感疫苗接种的强有力的预测因素.
- 疫苗接种的预测因素在流行前和流行后的时期之间显示出极小的变化.
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