Vaccine hesitancy among health paraprofessionals: A mixed methods study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 20; no. 1; p. e0312708
• Main Authors: Hergott, Madeline, Andreski, Michael, Rovers, John
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 07.01.2025; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Allied health personnel; Attitude of Health Personnel; Attitudes; Beliefs, opinions and attitudes; Biology and Life Sciences; Consent; Continuing professional development; COVID-19; COVID-19 - prevention & control; COVID-19 - psychology; COVID-19 vaccines; COVID-19 Vaccines - administration & dosage; Cross-Sectional Studies; Employee benefits; Employees; Employers; Female; Global health; Health care; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Health maintenance organizations; Health Personnel - psychology; HMOs; Humans; Immunization; Information sources; Male; Medical personnel; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Occupational health; Pandemics; Paraprofessionals; Patients; Phenomenology; Polls & surveys; Public health; Research and Analysis Methods; SARS-CoV-2; Social Sciences; Surveys; Surveys and Questionnaires; Theory of planned behavior; Vaccination - psychology; Vaccination Hesitancy - psychology; Vaccination Hesitancy - statistics & numerical data; Vaccine hesitancy; Vaccines; Workers; Young Adult; United States

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines vaccine hesitancy as "a delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccination services". Vaccine hesitancy has also been declared a top threat to global health. Some employers imposed vaccine mandates during the Covid-19...