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Abstract

In Italy, at the end of 2020, a voluntary immunization plan against COVID-19 was introduced, involving elderly among the first target categories. The aim of this study was to assess, through an online questionnaire, the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination in a sample of older adults from southern Italy. Of a total of 1041 respondents (41.7% males, mean age 76.6 ± 6.5), 965 (92.7%) were vaccinated or willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, although less than half of the sample was favorable to vaccinations and agreed with mandatory immunization. Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination was found to be positively related with higher educational level (OR = 1.875, CI95% = 1.113–3.161; p = 0.018) and having social/mass media as a main source of information (OR = 2.415 CI95% = 1.358–4.296, p = 0.003). On the contrary, an inverse relationship was found between acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and having fulfilled the questionnaire after the introduction of green pass (OR = 0.218, CI95% = 0.129–0.369; p < 0.001). Therefore, although this evidence needs to be further confirmed, it is possible to agree with previous studies reporting that compulsory measures, such as green pass implementation, must be accompanied by effective education and information strategies of the target population.

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Title
Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination in the Elderly: A Cross-Sectional Study in Southern Italy
Author
Gallè, Francesca 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Sabella, Elita Anna 2 ; Roma, Paolo 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Da Molin, Giovanna 2 ; Diella, Giusy 4 ; Montagna, Maria Teresa 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ferracuti, Stefano 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Liguori, Giorgio 1 ; Orsi, Giovanni Battista 5 ; Napoli, Christian 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Department of Movement Sciences and Wellbeing, University of Naples “Parthenope”, 80133 Naples, Italy; [email protected] 
 Inter-University Research Centre “Population, Environment and Health”, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70121 Bari, Italy; [email protected] (E.A.S.); [email protected] (G.D.M.) 
 Department of Human Neurosciences, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; [email protected] (P.R.); [email protected] (S.F.) 
 Department of Biomedical Science and Human Oncology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, 70124 Bari, Italy; [email protected] (G.D.); [email protected] (M.T.M.) 
 Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy; [email protected] 
 Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine, “Sapienza” University of Rome, 00189 Rome, Italy; [email protected] 
First page
1222
Publication year
2021
Publication date
2021
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
2076393X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2602237636
Copyright
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.