On December 21, 2020, the European Commission authorized the first vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the Comirnaty Pfizer-BioNTec for people over 18 years, after the positive opinion of the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
#Students perception definition update#
Currently, in a different scenario, several countries have been cooperating for the rapid development, update and distribution of vaccines, and the raised concerns has become the impact on vaccine effectiveness, considering the SARS-CoV-2 variants, like Omicron and its sub-lineages, able to reinfect people with previous infection or even fully vaccinated against COVID-19, as well as to guarantee their equitable distribution, acceptability assessing the barriers to effectiveness of vaccination programs, such as vaccine hesitancy. FG, AB, LA and AC received a salary from the abovementioned funder.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.ĭuring the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emergency caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), different public health measures were implemented across the world, especially when the development of a vaccine was still quite immature. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Requests for complementary data can be sent as a formal proposal to the CEEISCAT via email This work was supported by the Health Department of the Government of Catalonia with no grant number. Due to legal restrictions in relation to the “Personal Information Protection Act,” personal or spatial data that allow identified any participant, including the name of the school, which was used as an adjustment factor in the analysis, cannot be made publicly available. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All anonymized databases and their corresponding codebooks are available in the public repository. Received: NovemAccepted: FebruPublished: March 9, 2023Ĭopyright: © 2023 Ganem et al. PLoS ONE 18(3):Įditor: Harapan Harapan, Universitas Syiah Kuala, INDONESIA (2023) Determinants of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among students and parents in Sentinel Schools Network of Catalonia, Spain. Monitoring vaccine acceptance and refusal among children and their parents has been important to understand the interaction between different multilevel determinants and we hope it will be useful to improve public health strategies for future interventions in this population.Ĭitation: Ganem F, Folch C, Colom-Cadena A, Bordas A, Alonso L, Soriano-Arandes A, et al. For parents, the age of students, sociodemographic variables, socioeconomic impact related to the pandemic, and use of alternative therapies were more evident. For students, the main ones were risk perception and use of alternative therapies. Several variables were associated with refusal end hesitancy. The key reason to not vaccinate themselves, or their children, were concern about side effects, insufficient research about the effect of the vaccine in children, rapid development of vaccines, necessity for more information and previous infection by SARS-CoV-2. The acceptability among unvaccinated students was 40.9% and 20.8% in October and January, respectively, and among parents was proportionally higher among students aged 5–11 (70.2%) in October and aged 3–4 (47.8%) in January. Vaccination against COVID-19 reached 70.8% in students under 16 years and 95.8% in students over 16 years at the end of the study project. We describe the student’s vaccination status and proceed a univariate and multivariate analysis using a Deletion Substitution Addition (DSA) machine learning algorithm. This is a cross-sectional study that includes 3,383 students and the parents between October 2021 and January 2022. Our study presents the key reasons, determinants and characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among students over 16 years and parents of students under 16 years and describe the COVID-19 vaccination among students in the settings of sentinel schools of Catalonia, Spain. Vaccine hesitancy is defined as a delay in acceptance of vaccines despite its availability, caused by many determinants.
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