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The attitude towards vaccination of health sciences students at a Spanish university improved over the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorPérez-Rivas, Francisco Javier
dc.contributor.authorGallego-Lastra, Ramón Del
dc.contributor.authorMarques-Vieira, Cristina Maria Alves
dc.contributor.authorLópez-López, Candelas
dc.contributor.authorDomínguez-Fernández, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorRico-Blázquez, Milagros
dc.contributor.authorBazán, María Julia Ajejas
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-17T09:54:55Z
dc.date.available2022-02-17T09:54:55Z
dc.date.issued2022-02
dc.description.abstractIt is important to know the attitudes of students of health sciences (SHSs) towards vaccination since they will be tomorrow’s health professionals. Vaccination is a powerful tool in the fight against COVID-19. The aim of the present, cross-sectional study was to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the attitude of SHSs towards vaccination. Data were collected in the form of a questionnaire from all students of nursing, physiotherapy and chiropody matriculated at a Madrid University for the academic year 2019/2020 (i.e., before the start of the pandemic [Q1]), and from all those matriculated for the year 2021/22 (i.e., c18 months after the pandemic was declared [Q2]). A multivariate analysis was performed to identify the influence of sex, degree being studied, course year and the time of answering (Q1 or Q2), on the dimensions Beliefs, Behaviours and General Attitude. Overall, 1894 questionnaires were returned (934 [49.3%] for Q1, and 960 [50.7%] for Q2), of which 70.5% were completed by students of nursing, 14% by students of physiotherapy and 15.4% by those studying chiropody. In Q2, the results for all three dimensions were significantly better (p < 0.05). The most important influencing factors were being a student of nurs-ing, being in the final years of training (years 3 or 4), female gender and answering at the time of Q2. The results obtained are encouraging since student nurses (who showed Q1 and Q2 General Attitude scores of 3.34 and 3.47 (maximum possible 4), respectively [p < 0.05]) are the health professionals of tomorrow most likely to be involved in vaccination programmes.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/vaccines10020237pt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85123987013
dc.identifier.issn2076-393X
dc.identifier.pmcPMC8877000
dc.identifier.pmid35214695
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36727
dc.identifier.wos000762001100001
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectAttitudespt_PT
dc.subjectBeliefspt_PT
dc.subjectCOVID-19pt_PT
dc.subjectHealth occupationspt_PT
dc.subjectStudentspt_PT
dc.subjectVaccinationpt_PT
dc.titleThe attitude towards vaccination of health sciences students at a Spanish university improved over the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemicpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.issue2pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleVaccinespt_PT
oaire.citation.volume10pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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