Division of Health Behavior and Health Promotion, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2023 Dec 15;19(3):2281717. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2023.2281717. Epub 2023 Nov 15.
We examined perceptions of vaccines and changes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. From 2019 to 2021, a national sample of young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men completed an open-ended survey item about vaccine perceptions. Analyses identified themes and polarity (negative, neutral, or positive) within responses and determined temporal changes across phases of the pandemic ("pre-pandemic," "pandemic," "initial vaccine availability," or "widespread vaccine availability"). Themes included health benefits of vaccines (53.9%), fear of shots (23.7%), COVID-19 (10.3%), vaccines being safe (5.6%), and vaccine hesitancy/misinformation (5.5%). Temporal changes existed for multiple themes ( < .05). Overall, 53.0% of responses were positive, 31.2% were negative, and 15.8% were neutral. Compared to the pre-pandemic phase, polarity was less positive for the widespread vaccine availability phase (odds ratio = 0.64, 95% confidence interval: 0.42-0.96). The findings provide insight into how vaccine perceptions change in concert with a public health emergency.
我们研究了人们对疫苗的看法以及在 2019 年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行期间的变化。在 2019 年至 2021 年期间，一项针对年轻男同性恋、双性恋和其他与男性发生性关系的男性的全国性样本完成了一项关于疫苗认知的开放式调查项目。分析确定了回复中的主题和极性（负面、中性或正面），并确定了大流行各阶段（“大流行前”、“大流行期间”、“初始疫苗供应”或“广泛疫苗供应”）的时间变化。主题包括疫苗的健康益处（53.9%）、对注射的恐惧（23.7%）、COVID-19（10.3%）、疫苗的安全性（5.6%）和疫苗犹豫/错误信息（5.5%）。多个主题都存在时间变化（ < .05）。总体而言，53.0%的回复是积极的，31.2%是消极的，15.8%是中立的。与大流行前阶段相比，广泛疫苗供应阶段的极性不太积极（优势比 = 0.64，95%置信区间：0.42-0.96）。这些发现提供了关于疫苗认知如何随着公共卫生紧急情况而变化的深入了解。
