Education level and COVID-19 vaccination willingness in adolescents.


Journal

European child & adolescent psychiatry
ISSN: 1435-165X
Titre abrégé: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9212296

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2023
Historique:
received: 03 09 2021
accepted: 16 09 2021
medline: 28 3 2023
pubmed: 23 9 2021
entrez: 22 9 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Vaccination is essential to control the COVID-19 pandemic. High vaccination willingness is a key for successful vaccination programs. This study assessed attitudes toward vaccination in Austrian adolescents and determined whether there are differences in vaccination readiness regarding education status, gender and migration background. Two cross-sectional online surveys were conducted from March to July 2021 in apprentices and high school students. Willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccination was rated on a 5-point scale. In total, n = 2006 (n = 1442 apprentices and n = 564 high school students) completed the survey. Willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccination was higher in students compared to apprentices (p < 0.001). Furthermore, migration background (p = 0.023) and female gender (p = 0.001) were associated with lower vaccination willingness. In conclusion, more efforts are required to improve confidence and willingness to vaccinate adolescents with lower educational levels, those with migrant backgrounds and females.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34550459
doi: 10.1007/s00787-021-01878-4
pii: 10.1007/s00787-021-01878-4
pmc: PMC8456192
doi:

Substances chimiques

COVID-19 Vaccines 0

Types de publication

Letter

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

537-539

Informations de copyright

© 2021. Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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Auteurs

Elke Humer (E)

Department for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria.

Andrea Jesser (A)

Department for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria.

Paul L Plener (PL)

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

Thomas Probst (T)

Department for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria.

Christoph Pieh (C)

Department for Psychotherapy and Biopsychosocial Health, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria. christoph.pieh@donau-uni.ac.at.

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