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Acceptability of the vaccine against COVID-19 in Spanish Health Sciences students a cross-sectional study

Title: Acceptability of the vaccine against COVID-19 in Spanish Health Sciences students a cross-sectional study
Authors : Rodríguez Blanco, Noelia
Vicente Alcalde, Nancy
Cubero Plazas, Laura
Sánchez Mas, Jesús Manuel
Montagud Peñadés, Emilia
Moragues Moncho, Raúl
Keywords: Estudiantes de medicina.Medical students.Estudiantes de enfermería.Estudiantes de farmacia.COVID-19 (Disease) - Vaccination - Spain.COVID-19 - Vacunación - España.Pharmacy students.Nursing students.
Publisher: MDPI
Citation: Rodríguez-Blanco, N., Vicente-Alcalde, N., Cubero-Plazas, L., Sánchez-Más, J., Montagud, E., Moragues, R., Gabaldón-Bravo, E., Hurtado-Sanchez, J. A. & Tuells, J. (2022). Acceptability of the vaccine against COVID-19 in Spanish Health Sciences students: a cross-sectional study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, i. 19 (27 sep.), art. 12244. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912244
Abstract: Healthcare professionals must play an exemplary role in the field of vaccinology. It is convenient that they are trained during their time at university. The objective of this study was to determine the acceptability of the vaccines against COVID-19 in health sciences students in Spanish universities. A cross-sectional study was performed regarding the acceptance of the vaccines against COVID-19 in students in the Health Sciences Degrees in Spanish universities was performed on a sample of students of nursing, medicine, and pharmacy during the spring of 2021, via an online questionnaire with 36 questions designed ad hoc, self-administered, anonymized, and standardized. There were 1222 students participating, of Spanish nationality (97.4%), women (80.5%) and with an average age of 22.0 4.8 years old. Of those, 12.3% had had the disease, 44.0% had to quarantine, 70.8% had undergone diagnostic tests, out of which 14.1% were positive. In total, 97.5% of those surveyed indicated their desire of being vaccinated, if possible, with Comirnaty® (74.9%). At the time of the study, 49.6% were already vaccinated. The reasons for vaccination differed according to the degree and the doubts about vaccine safety was the largest reason for reluctance. Some 37.7% suspected that there are unknown adverse effects and 85.6% of those vaccinated experienced some mild effects after injection. Vaccine acceptance and confidence in the recommendations given by health authorities is high in health sciences students.
Description: Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la siguiente URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/19/12244
Este artículo de investigación pertenece a la colección "Vaccination Research for Public Health".
En este artículo de investigación también participan: Eva Gabaldón-Bravo, Jose Antonio Hurtado-Sanchez y José Tuells.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10637/14379
Rights : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es
ISSN: 1660-4601 (Electrónico)
Language: es
Issue Date: 27-Sep-2022
Center : Universidad Cardenal Herrera-CEU
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