Healthcare provider recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination: Prevalence, disparities, and correlates.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We assessed healthcare provider recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination, disparities across sociodemographic factors, and associations with health care coverage, social norms, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and Fox News preference.

Methods

We utilized random sample survey data of Arkansas residents (N = 2201) collected in October 2022 to identify adults with a personal provider who make up the analytical sample of this study (n = 1804).

Results

Over a third (37.2 %; n = 607) of the weighted sample did not receive a recommendation. Adjusted odds of receiving a recommendation were positively associated with health care coverage (aOR=1.66; 95 % CI [1.05, 2.64]) and negatively associated with perceiving "very few" (aOR=0.48; 95 % CI [0.33, 0.72]) or "some but not

SUBMITTER: Willis DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11812527 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature