Petravić Luka, Arh Rok, Gabrovec Tina, Jazbec Lucija, Rupčić Nika, Starešinič Nina, Zorman Lea, Pretnar Ajda, Srakar Andrej, Zwitter Matjaž, Slavec Ana
Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia.
Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Vaccines (Basel). 2021 Mar 12;9(3):247. doi: 10.3390/vaccines9030247.
While the problem of vaccine hesitancy is not new, it has become more pronounced with the new COVID-19 vaccines and represents an obstacle to resolving the crisis. Even people who would usually trust vaccines and experts now prefer to wait for more information. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in Slovenia in December 2020 to find out the attitudes of the population regarding COVID-19 vaccination and the factors that affect these attitudes. Based on 12,042 fully completed questionnaires, we find that higher intention to get vaccinated is associated with men, older respondents, physicians and medical students, respondents who got the influenza vaccination, those who knew someone who had gotten hospitalised or died from COVID-19 and those who have more trust in experts, institutions and vaccines. Nurses and technicians were less likely to get vaccinated. In answers to an open question, sceptics were split into those doubting the quality due to the rapid development of the vaccine and those that reported personal experiences with side effects of prior vaccinations. Although the Slovenian population is diverse in its attitudes towards vaccination, the results are comparable to those found in other countries. However, there are potential limitations to the generalizability of the findings that should be addressed in future studies.
尽管疫苗犹豫问题并非新鲜事，但在新型新冠疫苗出现后愈发凸显，成为解决这场危机的一大障碍。即便那些通常信任疫苗和专家的人，如今也更倾向于等待更多信息。2020年12月在斯洛文尼亚开展了一项横断面在线调查，以了解民众对新冠疫苗接种的态度以及影响这些态度的因素。基于12042份完整填写的问卷，我们发现较高的接种意愿与男性、年长受访者、医生和医学生、接种过流感疫苗的受访者、认识因新冠病毒住院或死亡者的受访者以及对专家、机构和疫苗更信任的受访者相关。护士和技术人员接种疫苗的可能性较小。在对一个开放性问题的回答中，持怀疑态度者分为因疫苗快速研发而怀疑质量的人和报告有过先前疫苗接种副作用个人经历的人。尽管斯洛文尼亚民众对疫苗接种的态度各不相同，但结果与其他国家的情况类似。然而，研究结果的普遍性存在潜在局限性，未来研究应予以关注。
