Factors Affecting Attitudes towards COVID-19 Vaccination: An Online Survey in Slovenia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F21%3A10441610" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/21:10441610 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KyMd3vH4ZB" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=KyMd3vH4ZB</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030247" target="_blank" >10.3390/vaccines9030247</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Factors Affecting Attitudes towards COVID-19 Vaccination: An Online Survey in Slovenia

Original language description

While the problem of vaccine hesitancy is not new, it has become more pronounced with the new COVID-19 vaccines and represents an obstacle to resolving the crisis. Even people who would usually trust vaccines and experts now prefer to wait for more information. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in Slovenia in December 2020 to find out the attitudes of the population regarding COVID-19 vaccination and the factors that affect these attitudes. Based on 12,042 fully completed questionnaires, we find that higher intention to get vaccinated is associated with men, older respondents, physicians and medical students, respondents who got the influenza vaccination, those who knew someone who had gotten hospitalised or died from COVID-19 and those who have more trust in experts, institutions and vaccines. Nurses and technicians were less likely to get vaccinated. In answers to an open question, sceptics were split into those doubting the quality due to the rapid development of the vaccine and those that reported personal experiences with side effects of prior vaccinations. Although the Slovenian population is diverse in its attitudes towards vaccination, the results are comparable to those found in other countries. However, there are potential limitations to the generalizability of the findings that should be addressed in future studies.

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

10608 - Biochemistry and molecular biology

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2021

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

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

247

UT code for WoS article

000634180800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85102934241