Vaccination Perception and Attitude among Undergraduate Medical and Teacher Education Students at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11120%2F20%3A43920022" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11120/20:43920022 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8010136" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8010136</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines8010136" target="_blank" >10.3390/vaccines8010136</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Vaccination Perception and Attitude among Undergraduate Medical and Teacher Education Students at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Original language description

This cross-sectional comparative study was designed to evaluate different opinions and their impact on vaccine confidence, as perceived by students of two different university programs (medicine and teacher education), as both of them play important roles in patient education, with the latter major shaping the skills of critical thinking. Multi-item, opinion-based, paper-and-pencil anonymous questionnaires were distributed among students of medicine and teacher education. Data were sorted and divided into two sets to be analyzed using logistic regression. Out of a total of 722 respondents, 386 were medical students and 336 were teacher education students. While most respondents said they were not in favor of alternative medicine, a significantly higher number of alternative medicine followers were teacher education students. The positive vaccination perception rate (PVPR) is not dependent on the behavioral factors of student respondents (irrespective of their major) but is largely affected by their attitude to alternative medicine. Fear of infection dramatically increased the PVPR (up to 6.7 times) in those who were versus were not afraid of getting infected or were not quite sure whether to fear it. Fear of side effects of vaccination clearly decreased the PVPR, by at least 84%.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30303 - Infectious Diseases

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Vaccines

ISSN

2076-393X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

"Article 136"

UT code for WoS article

000529439800135

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85083188747