Vaccines
 2022
DOI: 10.3390/vaccines10081231
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COVID-19 Vaccination Intent, Barriers and Facilitators in Healthcare Workers: Insights from a Cross-Sectional Study on 2500 Employees at LMU University Hospital in Munich, Germany

Ana Zhelyazkova
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Selina Kim
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Matthias Klein
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et al.

Abstract: Considering the role of healthcare workers (HCW) in promoting vaccine uptake and previously recorded hesitancy among HCW, we aim to examine the COVID-19 vaccination intent and status of HCW through a cross-sectional anonymous online survey at LMU University Hospital in Munich. Data collection was informed by the Health Belief Model (HBM) and focused on vaccination intent, status and on potential factors affecting the decision-making process. In total, 2555 employees completed the questionnaire. Our data showed… Show more

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“…This association may be explained by the fact that they put more emphasis and interest in health issues and thus they are more interested in this vaccination. The associations with socio-demographic and general respondent's characteristics observed in this survey are consistent with the literature [13][14][15][24][25][26][29][30][31][32][33]. Furthermore, these results indicated that some respondent's attitudes had an important impact on the outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 90%
“…Indeed, being aware that COVID-19 was a severe disease predicts all three outcomes of interest. This is not surprising, since the individual beliefs about COVID-19 disease surely influence the attitude and the decision to get the vaccine as observed in several previous studies from Western countries [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. It should be noted that another key finding was the influence of a higher self-awareness of the risk of infection on a higher perception of the utility of the second booster dose [19,23].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 52%
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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…This association may be explained by the fact that they put more emphasis and interest in health issues and thus they are more interested in this vaccination. The associations with socio-demographic and general respondent's characteristics observed in this survey are consistent with the literature [13][14][15][24][25][26][29][30][31][32][33]. Furthermore, these results indicated that some respondent's attitudes had an important impact on the outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 90%
“…Indeed, being aware that COVID-19 was a severe disease predicts all three outcomes of interest. This is not surprising, since the individual beliefs about COVID-19 disease surely influence the attitude and the decision to get the vaccine as observed in several previous studies from Western countries [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]. It should be noted that another key finding was the influence of a higher self-awareness of the risk of infection on a higher perception of the utility of the second booster dose [19,23].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 52%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…These discrepancies are due to different study designs (telephone survey vs. online survey), different target populations (undefined HCW vs. only HCW involved in primary care) and time of data collection (March vs. November-February). Although we did not find any international publications concerning IVR in HCWs in primary care, they seemed to increase during the pandemic period [26][27][28][29][30]. IVR ranged from 53.6% in a multicentre observational study conducted in Italy [26], to 60.2% from an anonymous online cross-sectional survey conducted in Germany [27], to 78% according to an online survey from Ireland [28].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 78%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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“…Further, the results presented here underline the outcomes of the first questionnaire stating that HCWs with a positive vaccination status are less worried about getting infected with SARS-CoV-2 in their personal or professional environment [ 6 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 84%
“…The hospital’s employees were continuously informed about any changes or adaptations to the recommendations as well as to the vaccination process via the hospital’s designated intranet page and via newsletter. A detailed evaluation of the communication campaign and tools implemented at the LMU University hospital is published elsewhere [ 6 ].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.
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