Covid-19 vaccine literacy in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases

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ID21620719
AuthorsMaría Correa‐rodríguez (0000-0001-9165-4349, Universidad de Granada, corresponding author), Blanca Rueda‐medina (0000-0002-0263-7000, Universidad de Granada), José-Luis Callejas-Rubio, José Luís Callejas-Rubio (0000-0002-1653-0087, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada), Raquel Ríos-Fernández (0000-0001-6630-8292, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada), Javier de la Hera-Fernández (Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada), Norberto Ortego‐Centeno (0000-0003-2325-0937, Universidad de Granada), Norberto Ortego-Centeno
Year2023
Volume42
Issue16
Pages13769-13784
Publication date2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1046-1310 • E-ISSN: 1936-4733
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12144-022-02713-y
PMID35068910
OpenAlexW4205892329
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited42

COVID-19 related infodemic is a threat to the successful COVID-19 vaccination campaigns. This might be especially apparent for patients with autoimmune diseases since there is no data available about the balance between benefits and risks of the newly developed COVID-19 vaccines in this population. We aim (i) to evaluate vaccine literacy skills in a population of patients with systemic autoimmune diseases, (ii) to examine the potential associations between vaccine literacy skills and sociodemographic characteristics and (iii) to analyze the relationships between attitudes, perceptions and beliefs about current vaccinations and vaccine literacy skills and sociodemographic characteristics. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 319 patients with systemic autoimmune diseases (92% females; 49.5% of patients in the 31–50 years age category). The vaccine literacy levels were determined using the Health Literacy about Vaccination in adulthood in Italian (HLVa-IT). Sociodemographic characteristics including gender, age, country and area of residence, civil status, socioeconomic status, educational attainment and occupational status were evaluated. The mean vaccine literacy functional and interactive-critical scores were 2.59 ± 0.74 and 3.07 ± 0.60, respectively. The vaccine literacy interactive-critical score was higher in females than in males (p = 0.048). Interactive-critical scores were associated with the area of residence, civil status and socioeconomic status, with the highest score in urban area of ≥ 100.000 inhabitants (p = 0.045), in widow patients (p = 0.023) and in patients with high socioeconomic status (p = 0.018). Significant differences were observed between the different education levels, for both the functional and the interactive-critical scores (p = 0.002 and p

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Disease · Health literacy · Literacy · Pedagogy · Health Literacy and Information Accessibility · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Internal Medicine · Virology

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