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. 2023 Jan-Dec:14:21501319231210615.
doi: 10.1177/21501319231210615.

Exploring Vaccination Sentiments: A Population-Centric Examination

Omar Dimassi  1 , Mohamad Dimassi  2 , Alexander Tritschler  2 , Tariq Laban  3 , Daphne Santhosh  1
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Exploring Vaccination Sentiments: A Population-Centric Examination

Omar Dimassi et al. J Prim Care Community Health. 2023 Jan-Dec.

Abstract

Vaccine hesitancy has, for a considerable time, been a significant risk to global health. As an integral part of disease prevention, vaccines have become a public health matter which is often debated among the community in spite of proven scientific evidence of their efficiency. A questionnaire was designed to evaluate the perception and knowledge of a population and compare it with behavior in order to assess a demographic within a sample population of 245 individuals selected at random within the United States, Here, we aim to clarify the difference between vaccine opinion among the general public as compared to vaccination status. Chi-squared analysis was done with the categorical data showing a statistically significant result when comparing parents versus non-parents, and Asian/Asian Americans against other ethnicities. All other comparisons were statistically insignificant. When looking at participant responses, PCPs did not discuss vaccines at all with 32% of the sample. The need for PCPs to provide educational information to certain ethnicities may play an important role in public health.

Keywords: attitudes and behaviors; disease prevention and control; herd immunity; immunization compliance; survey research; vaccine education.

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Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Proportion of ethnic groups that answered “yes” they believed vaccines are safe. This gave a chi-square value of 10 to 8, which is significant for the Asian/Asian American population that believed vaccines are less likely to be safe when compared to other ethnic groups.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Proportion of ethnic groups that answered “yes” they believe vaccines are effective. This gave a chi-square test value of 10 to 9 that was significant for Asian/Asian American populations when asked if they believed vaccines to be effective.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Proportion of parents versus non-parents that answered “yes” they believed vaccines are effective. This gave a P-value of .02 from the chi-square test, which is significant (P < .05).
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