Šiđanin Iva, Njegovan Biljana Ratković, Sokolović Bojana
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia.
Vaccines (Basel). 2021 Dec 3;9(12):1430. doi: 10.3390/vaccines9121430.
Mass immunization of the citizens of the Republic of Serbia began in January 2021. Information on the significance, manner, advantages and consequences of this process was intensively distributed through all communication channels, with the media playing a key role. According to the data of the official institutions for the public health of Serbia, by July 2021 the lowest percentage of vaccinated population was among those between the ages of 18 and 24-only 15% of this demographic had received the vaccine by this point. Given the low turnout of young people for vaccination, in this paper we investigated the general attitude of students in Serbia, as a special category of young people, towards the vaccine against the COVID-19 virus, as well as their attitude regarding information about vaccination in the media. Research was conducted on a sample of 345 students at the University of Novi Sad. The results of the research showed that 42% of students had not been vaccinated and did not plan to do so, 37.4% had received at least one dose of vaccine and 20.6% had not been vaccinated even though they planned to do so. Students who were vaccinated had more confidence in information provided through media channels than those who were not vaccinated. Therefore, it can be concluded that encouraging students to decide in favor of vaccination against the COVID-19 virus should come from the universities where they study as well as the media.
塞尔维亚共和国于2021年1月开始大规模免疫接种。关于这一过程的意义、方式、优势和后果的信息通过所有通信渠道密集传播，媒体发挥了关键作用。根据塞尔维亚公共卫生官方机构的数据，截至2021年7月，接种疫苗人口比例最低的是18至24岁的人群，此时该年龄段只有15%的人接种了疫苗。鉴于年轻人接种疫苗的参与率较低，在本文中，我们调查了塞尔维亚作为一类特殊年轻人的学生对新冠病毒疫苗的总体态度，以及他们对媒体上疫苗接种信息的态度。研究以诺维萨德大学的345名学生为样本进行。研究结果显示，42%的学生未接种疫苗且不打算接种，37.4%的学生至少接种了一剂疫苗，20.6%的学生虽计划接种但尚未接种。接种疫苗的学生比未接种疫苗的学生对通过媒体渠道提供的信息更有信心。因此，可以得出结论，鼓励学生决定接种新冠病毒疫苗的工作应由他们就读的大学以及媒体来开展。
