Coteur Kristien, Zafirovska Marija, Zafirovski Aleksandar, Danilenko Jelena, Lingner Heidrun, Bauch Felix, Brütting Christine, Buono Nicola, Lazic Vanja, Ramasaco Liljana, Silina Vija, Fuehner Lara-Marie, Harris Michael
Academic Center for General Practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Healthcare (Basel). 2025 Feb 6;13(3):344. doi: 10.3390/healthcare13030344.
Attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination vary globally, influenced by political and cultural factors. This research aimed to assess the views of people without a healthcare qualification in Europe on COVID-19 vaccination safety, effectiveness, and necessity as well as how well informed they felt. The secondary outcomes focused on how respondents' views were affected by demographic and context factors and included a comparison by country of the level of feeling well informed. A mixed-method cross-sectional online survey in eight European countries, using convenience sampling. : A total of 1008 adults completed the survey, 60% of whom were female. While only 44.1% considered the vaccines safe, 43.5% effective, and 44.9% necessary, 80.0% had been vaccinated. Four in ten adults strongly agreed that they were well informed, while over a quarter did not answer the question. Younger respondents, well-informed individuals, and German respondents were more inclined to perceive COVID-19 vaccination as both effective and necessary. : Motivations for vaccination included perceived health and social benefits, while concerns included a preference for "natural immunity", the rapid development of the vaccine, and potential unknown long-term effects. A correlation existed between respondents feeling well informed about the different COVID-19 vaccines in their country and the likelihood of having been vaccinated.
全球对新冠疫苗接种的态度各不相同，受到政治和文化因素的影响。本研究旨在评估欧洲没有医疗资质的人群对新冠疫苗接种安全性、有效性和必要性的看法，以及他们自认为了解信息的程度。次要结果聚焦于受访者的观点如何受到人口统计学和背景因素的影响，包括按国家对信息了解程度进行比较。在八个欧洲国家采用便利抽样法进行了一项混合方法的横断面在线调查。共有1008名成年人完成了调查，其中60%为女性。虽然只有44.1%的人认为疫苗安全，43.5%的人认为有效，44.9%的人认为有必要，但80.0%的人已经接种了疫苗。十分之四的成年人强烈同意他们了解充分，而超过四分之一的人没有回答这个问题。年轻受访者、信息充分的个人以及德国受访者更倾向于认为新冠疫苗接种既有效又有必要。接种疫苗的动机包括感知到的健康和社会效益，而担忧包括对“自然免疫”的偏好、疫苗的快速研发以及潜在的未知长期影响。受访者对本国不同新冠疫苗信息了解充分的程度与接种疫苗的可能性之间存在相关性。
