Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among students and parents in Sentinel Schools Network of Catalonia, Spain
Ganem dos Santos, Fabiana Sherine (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol)
Folch, Cinta (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol)
Colom Cadena, Andreu (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol)
Bordas, Anna (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol)
Alonso García, Lucía (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol)
Soriano-Arandes, Antoni (Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron)
Casabona-Barbarà, Jordi (Institut Germans Trias i Pujol)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Fecha:	2023
Resumen:	Vaccine hesitancy is defined as a delay in acceptance of vaccines despite its availability, caused by many determinants. Our study presents the key reasons, determinants and characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among students over 16 years and parents of students under 16 years and describe the COVID-19 vaccination among students in the settings of sentinel schools of Catalonia, Spain. This is a cross-sectional study that includes 3,383 students and the parents between October 2021 and January 2022. We describe the student's vaccination status and proceed a univariate and multivariate analysis using a Deletion Substitution Addition (DSA) machine learning algorithm. Vaccination against COVID-19 reached 70. 8% in students under 16 years and 95. 8% in students over 16 years at the end of the study project. The acceptability among unvaccinated students was 40. 9% and 20. 8% in October and January, respectively, and among parents was proportionally higher among students aged 5-11 (70. 2%) in October and aged 3-4 (47. 8%) in January. The key reason to not vaccinate themselves, or their children, were concern about side effects, insufficient research about the effect of the vaccine in children, rapid development of vaccines, necessity for more information and previous infection by SARS-CoV-2. Several variables were associated with refusal end hesitancy. For students, the main ones were risk perception and use of alternative therapies. For parents, the age of students, sociodemographic variables, socioeconomic impact related to the pandemic, and use of alternative therapies were more evident. Monitoring vaccine acceptance and refusal among children and their parents has been important to understand the interaction between different multilevel determinants and we hope it will be useful to improve public health strategies for future interventions in this population.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Documento:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Publicado en:	PloS one, Vol. 18 (march 2023) , ISSN 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282871
PMID: 36893204

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