Validation of the questionnaire on vaccines and hesitancy to be vaccinated in the Spanish Society of Epidemiology
Objective: To develop and validate a survey aimed at epidemiologists to measure factors associated withvaccine reluctance. Method: Vaccination hesitancy refers to delayed acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite the availa-bility of vaccination services. WHO included vaccination hesitancy among...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat de Lleida (UdL) |
| Repositorio: | Repositori Obert UdL |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositori.udl.cat:10459.1/465726 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2023.102329 https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/465726 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Vaccination hesitancy Validation study Surveys and questionnaires Health personnel Epidemiology Reticencia vacunal Estudio de validación Encuestas y cuestionario Profesionales sanitarios Epidemiología |
| Sumario: | Objective: To develop and validate a survey aimed at epidemiologists to measure factors associated withvaccine reluctance. Method: Vaccination hesitancy refers to delayed acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite the availa-bility of vaccination services. WHO included vaccination hesitancy among the 10 global health threats in2019. Within this conceptual framework proposed by WHO, a committee of six experts from the SpanishSociety of Epidemiology (SEE) designed a self-administered questionnaire to study factors associatedwith vaccination hesitancy in epidemiologists. This questionnaire was approved by the SEE Board, andwas sent online to all members in 2019. Based on the responses obtained, the following characteristicswere validated: face validity, internal validity, construct validity, criterion validity, reliability, as well asthe characteristic curves of each item and the information function per item and overall. Results: The final questionnaire showed two well-defined components, perception of vaccines and con-fidence in the transparency of vaccine data with high degrees of fit in all aspects of validation. Bothcomponents have shown that the higher the reluctance to vaccinate the better the questionnaire reportson these aspects. Conclusions: The study has allowed the development of a validated instrument in Spanish to measurethe factors associated with vaccine reluctance among epidemiologists. |
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