%0 Journal Article
%A Correa-Rodriguez, Maria
%A Rueda-Medina, Blanca
%A Callejas-Rubio, Jose-Luis
%A Rios-Fernandez, Raquel
%A de la Hera-Fernandez, Javier
%A Ortego-Centeno, Norberto
%T COVID-19 vaccine literacy in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases.
%D 2022
%@ 1046-1310
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/21252
%X COVID-19 related infodemic is a threat to the successful COVID-19 vaccination campaigns. This might be especially apparent for patients with autoimmune diseases since there is no data available about the balance between benefts and risks ofthe newly developed COVID-19 vaccines in this population. We aim (i) to evaluate vaccine literacy skills in a population ofpatients with systemic autoimmune diseases, (ii) to examine the potential associations between vaccine literacy skills andsociodemographic characteristics and (iii) to analyze the relationships between attitudes, perceptions and beliefs about current vaccinations and vaccine literacy skills and sociodemographic characteristics. A cross-sectional study was conductedamong 319 patients with systemic autoimmune diseases (92% females; 49.5% of patients in the 31–50 years age category).The vaccine literacy levels were determined using the Health Literacy about Vaccination in adulthood in Italian (HLVa-IT).Sociodemographic characteristics including gender, age, country and area of residence, civil status, socioeconomic status,educational attainment and occupational status were evaluated. The mean vaccine literacy functional and interactive-criticalscores were 2.59±0.74 and 3.07±0.60, respectively. The vaccine literacy interactive-critical score was higher in femalesthan in males (p=0.048). Interactive-critical scores were associated with the area of residence, civil status and socioeconomic status, with the highest score in urban area of≥100.000 inhabitants (p=0.045), in widow patients (p=0.023) and inpatients with high socioeconomic status (p=0.018). Signifcant diferences were observed between the diferent educationlevels, for both the functional and the interactive-critical scores (p=0.002 and p<0.001, respectively), the highest score wasobserved in patients who completed a university degree. The level of vaccine literacy for functional and interactive-criticalscales were medium. Area of residence, civil status and socioeconomic status represented determinants of vaccine literacyinteractive-critical scale. Educational attainment also contributes to vaccine literacy functional scale. Insight into these factors is required to ensure an optimal vaccine literacy level in patients with autoimmune diseases.
%K Attitudes
%K Beliefs
%K Covid-19
%K Systemic autoimmune diseases
%K Vaccination
%K Vaccine literacy
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