Pogue Kendall, Altman Jessica D, Lee Abigail A, Miner Dashiell S, Skyles Ty J, Bodily Ruth J, Crook Triston B, Nielson Bryce U, Hinton Kaitlyn, Busacker Lydia, Mecham Zoe E, Rose Agnes M, Black Scott, Poole Brian D
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA.
Department of English, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
Vaccines (Basel). 2023 Jun 21;11(7):1132. doi: 10.3390/vaccines11071132.
The COVID-19 pandemic changed our world as we know it and continues to be a global problem three years since the pandemic began. Several vaccines were produced, but there was a considerable amount of societal turmoil surrounding them that has affected the way people view not only COVID-19 vaccines but all vaccines. We used a survey to compare how attitudes towards vaccination have changed in college students during the pandemic. An initial survey was administered in 2021, then a follow-up in 2022. Out of 316 respondents who answered the first survey, 192 completed the follow-up. The survey was designed to measure trends in changes to vaccine attitudes since the COVID-19 pandemic began. By comparing the first survey in 2021 and the follow-up, we found that roughly 55% of respondents' vaccine attitudes did not change, roughly 44% of respondents' attitudes towards vaccines became more positive, and only about 1% of the respondents' vaccine attitudes became more negative. Improved view of vaccines was associated with political views and increased trust in medicine and the healthcare system. Worsened opinions of vaccines were associated with a belief that the COVID-19 vaccine affected fertility.
新冠疫情改变了我们所熟知的世界，自疫情开始三年来，它仍是一个全球性问题。多种疫苗被研发出来，但围绕这些疫苗出现了大量社会动荡，这不仅影响了人们对新冠疫苗的看法，也影响了对所有疫苗的看法。我们通过一项调查来比较疫情期间大学生对疫苗接种的态度是如何变化的。2021年进行了初步调查，随后在2022年进行了跟进调查。在回答了第一次调查的316名受访者中，192人完成了跟进调查。该调查旨在衡量自新冠疫情开始以来疫苗态度的变化趋势。通过比较2021年的第一次调查和跟进调查，我们发现，大约55%的受访者对疫苗的态度没有改变，大约44%的受访者对疫苗的态度变得更加积极，只有约1%的受访者对疫苗的态度变得更加消极。对疫苗看法的改善与政治观点以及对医学和医疗系统信任的增加有关。对疫苗看法的恶化与认为新冠疫苗影响生育能力的信念有关。
