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TY - JOUR
T1 - Vaccine Hesitancy Among Working Age Adults with/without Disability in the UK
AU - Emerson, Eric
AU - Totsika, Vaso
AU - Aitken, Zoe
AU - King, Tania
AU - Hastings, Richard
AU - Hatton, Chris
AU - Stancliffe, Roger J.
AU - Llewellyn, G
AU - Kavanagh, Anne
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Public Health. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Public Health, 200, 2021 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2021.09.019
PY - 2021/11/30
Y1 - 2021/11/30
N2 - ObjectivesTo estimate levels of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among working-age adults with disabilities in the United Kingdom.Study designCross-sectional survey.MethodsSecondary analysis of data collected on a nationally representative sample of 10,114 respondents aged 16–64 years.ResultsThe adjusted relative risk for hesitancy among respondents with a disability was 0.92 (95% CI 0.67–1.27). There were stronger associations between gender and hesitancy and ethnic status and hesitancy among participants with a disability. The most common reasons cited by people with disabilities who were hesitant were: concern about the future effects of the vaccine, not trusting vaccines and concern about the side effects of vaccination.ConclusionsThe higher rates of vaccine hesitancy among women with disabilities and among people from minority ethnic groups with disabilities are concerning.
AB - ObjectivesTo estimate levels of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among working-age adults with disabilities in the United Kingdom.Study designCross-sectional survey.MethodsSecondary analysis of data collected on a nationally representative sample of 10,114 respondents aged 16–64 years.ResultsThe adjusted relative risk for hesitancy among respondents with a disability was 0.92 (95% CI 0.67–1.27). There were stronger associations between gender and hesitancy and ethnic status and hesitancy among participants with a disability. The most common reasons cited by people with disabilities who were hesitant were: concern about the future effects of the vaccine, not trusting vaccines and concern about the side effects of vaccination.ConclusionsThe higher rates of vaccine hesitancy among women with disabilities and among people from minority ethnic groups with disabilities are concerning.
KW - Disability
KW - Vaccine hesitancy
KW - COVID-19
KW - Gender
M3 - Journal article
VL - 200
SP - 106
EP - 108
JO - Public Health
JF - Public Health
SN - 0033-3506
ER -