Knowledge and attitudes of architecture and nursing students towards vaccination against COVID 19

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Δημόσια Υγεία
Library of the School of Health Sciences
Deposit date:
2023-02-03
Year:
2023
Author:
Kardari Anna
Supervisors info:
Αθηνά Καλοκαιρινού-Αναγνωστοπούλου, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Νοσηλευτικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Παναγιώτα Σουρτζή, Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Νοσηλευτικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Βενετία -Σοφία Βελονάκη, Επίκουρη Καθηγήτρια, Τμήμα Νοσηλευτικής, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Γνώσεις και στάσεις φοιτητών αρχιτεκτονικής και νοσηλευτικής για τον εμβολιασμό κατά της COVID 19
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Knowledge and attitudes of architecture and nursing students towards vaccination against COVID 19
Summary:
Introduction-Background: The COVID-19 pandemic began in the city of Wuhan, China in December 2019. The first cases in Greece appeared on February 26, 2020, and to date more than 3,843,142 infections and 30,476 absences have been recorded. Huge efforts were made by the scientific community worldwide to discover vaccines that would stop the course of the pandemic. In Europe so far, the European Commission has granted marketing authorization for five vaccines against COVID-19: BioNTech/Pfizer's vaccine, Moderna's vaccine, AstraZeneca's vaccine, Johnson & Johnson's Janssen vaccine and the Novavax vaccine. However, the percentage of vaccinated people is not enough to limit at least serious illnesses from the virus. Greece is in the three highest places among the countries of the European Union in rates of fatal cases from Covid-19. With 136.05 deaths per 1 million population, it has almost three times the death rate of the European Union average, which is 54%. One of the main reasons for the above data is the skepticism and hesitancy of individuals (mainly the young population) in relation to vaccines against COVID-19.
Aim: The study of the knowledge and attitudes of Architecture and Nursing students regarding the vaccination against COVID-19.
Methodology: The study is quantitative cross-sectional and its data collection was done through structured questionnaires distributed to Architecture and Nursing students during their examination period (June-July 2022). The questionnaires consisted of 27 questions divided into three parts: Demographics, Knowledge and Attitudes. A total of 380 students from the two universities participated.
Results: 50% of the sample were Architecture students and the remaining 50% were Nursing students. University of study and vaccination coverage were separately statistically significantly associated with vaccination concern, vaccine protection against COVID-19 disease, vaccine knowledge, and the influence of Greek government rewards and sanctions on students' intention to vaccinate, but were not associated with each other. In the logistic regression, state rewards and sanctions had the largest B-coefficient (B=2.045), followed by smaller coefficients for the remaining variables that had shown a statistically significant correlation with the dependent variable (school attended) in the previous x2 statistical test. The independent variables were not related to each other, as shown by linear regression (Tolerance index > 0.5 and VIF index close to 1).
Conclusions: Nursing students appeared to be less worried about vaccination, more knowledgeable about vaccines, and less influenced by the state regarding their vaccination than Architecture students. The reason why no relationship was found between the school of study and the vaccination coverage of the students was the following: Architecture students were vaccinated to a large extent so as not to lose the privileges offered by the state to vaccinated young people.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Students, Vaccination against COVID-19, Pandemic COVID-19, Vaccine hesitancy
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
Yes
Number of references:
38
Number of pages:
97
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