{"id":10378,"date":"2021-06-14T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10378"},"modified":"2021-06-16T08:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T15:40:47","slug":"perceptions-and-concerns-regarding-covid-19-vaccination-in-a-military-base-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/14\/perceptions-and-concerns-regarding-covid-19-vaccination-in-a-military-base-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceptions and Concerns Regarding COVID-19 Vaccination in a Military Base Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Younger age and medical occupation were independent predictors of vaccine hesitancy according to results from a survey of individuals working on a military base in Ohio, administered between November 2020 and January 2021. Among 816 survey respondents, 185 (23%) self-identified as vaccine hesitant. The vaccine hesitant group reported more concern about short-term side effects (43% vs. 26%), long-term side effects (82% vs. 50%), vaccine effectiveness (23% vs. 5%), being infected with COVID-19 from the vaccine (10% vs. 5%), and worry about misinformation\/political agenda (43% vs. 31%); these differences were heightened among younger participants. The non-hesitant group was more likely to recommend the COVID-19 vaccine to a friend or family member than the vaccine hesitant group (93% vs. 20%) as were those in the older (\u226531 years) age group (79% vs. 67%) and non-medical personnel (81% vs. 52%).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theis et al.\u00a0(June 2021). Perceptions and Concerns Regarding COVID-19 Vaccination in a Military Base Population. Military Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/milmed\/usab230\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/milmed\/usab230<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Younger age and medical occupation were independent predictors of vaccine hesitancy according to results from a survey of individuals working on a military base in Ohio, administered between November 2020 and January 2021. Among 816 survey respondents, 185 (23%) self-identified as vaccine hesitant. The vaccine hesitant group reported more concern about short-term side effects (43%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/06\/14\/perceptions-and-concerns-regarding-covid-19-vaccination-in-a-military-base-population\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,212],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-10378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-military","tag-vaccine-hesitancy","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10379,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions\/10379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}