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Title: | COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in diverse groups in the UK - is the driver economic or cultural in student populations? |
Authors: | Drobniewski, F Kusuma, D Broda, A Castro-Sánchez, E Ahmad, R |
Issue Date: | 11-Feb-2022 |
Publisher: | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Citation: | Drobniewski, F. et al. (2022) 'COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in diverse groups in the UK - is the driver economic or cultural in student populations?', medRxiv 2021.12.14.21267773; doi: 10.1101/2021.12.14.21267773. |
Abstract: | Studies have identified a greater reluctance for members of the Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities to be vaccinated against COVID-19 despite a higher probability of greater harm from COVID-19. We conducted an anonymised questionnaire-based study of students (recruiting primarily before first reports of embolic events) at two London universities to identify whether economic or educational levels were primarily responsible for this reluctance: a postgraduate core group (PGCC) n=860 and a pilot study of undergraduate medical and nursing students (n=103). Asian and Black students were 2.0 and 3.2 times (PGCC) less likely to accept the COVID vaccine than White British students. Similar findings were noted in the pilot study students. As students were studying for Masters or PhD degrees and voluntarily paying high fees, educational and economic reasons were unlikely to be the underlying cause, and wider cultural reservations were more likely. Politicians exerted a strong negative influence, suggesting that campaigns should omit politicians. |
Description: | The file archived on this institutional repository is a preprint. It has not been certified by peer review. Now published in Vaccines doi: 10.3390/vaccines10040501 |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/28612 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.14.21267773 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Arts and Humanities Research Papers |
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