Influences on university students' intention to receive recommended vaccines: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore predictors of university students' intention to receive a recommended vaccine and the main sources of vaccine-related information accessed by university students.

Setting

Participants were recruited from University College London (UK) in summer 2015.

Participants

177 university students participated. The majority of participants were female (58%), White (68%) and had no religion (58%). Participants were aged 18 to 42 (mean age=23.6).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Primary outcome measures included vaccine attitude, perceived subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, perceived self-efficacy, past receipt of recommended childhood vaccines, perceived adverse reaction to past vaccination and needle fear. As a secondary outcome so

SUBMITTER: Landowska K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5642662 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature