COVID-19 vaccine literacy in patients with systemic autoimmune diseases.

ABSTRACT: 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 benefits and risks of the newly developed COVID-19 vaccines in this population. We aim (i) to evaluate vaccine literacy skills in a population of patients with systemic autoimmune diseases, (ii) to examine the potential associations between vaccine literacy skills and sociodemographic 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 conducted among 319 patients with systemic autoimmune diseases (92% females

SUBMITTER: Correa-Rodriguez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8764502 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature