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Exploring Factors Affecting COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake among African University Students: A Scoping Review
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Isaac Nyarko Kwakye; Daniel Adom-Fynn; Nuworza Kugbey; Kwame Benyibaling Bour – SAGE Open, 2025
This scoping review is intended to examine and consolidate the factors that influence the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines among African university students. Gaining an understanding of these factors is crucial for developing effective public health strategies to improve vaccination rates within this demographic. An extensive search of peer-reviewed…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs, Student Attitudes
Lessons to Build an Educational Model for Higher Education Institutions Defined as Anchor Institutions to Tackle Public Health Crises: A Pilot Study on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Faculty and Students in Hebert L. College in the Bronx, NY
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Roldós, Maria Isabel; Burt, Kate G.; Eubank, Jake – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2023
Coronavirus disease 2019 exacerbated health inequities in Bronx Communities. This study explored vaccine hesitancy among a random sample of faculty and students from Hebert Lehman College. Findings suggest faculty are largely vaccinated (87%), while 59% of students are unvaccinated. Significant gaps in information were found related to safety and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Health, Immunization Programs
Living through Their First Pandemic: Mississippi Young Adults Reveal COVID-19 Concerns and Challenges
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Traci Hayes; Wendy White; Kisa K. Harris; Amel Mohammed; Frances Henderson; Caroline E. Compretta – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The study aimed to understand the perceptions, knowledge, information sources, and coping skills pertaining to COVID-19 among two groups of African American young adults. Participants: African American ages 18-29 years enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities and non-college enrolled young adults in Mississippi were the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Barriers, Student Attitudes
Understanding HPV Vaccine Initiation in Hispanic Adolescents Using Social Marketing Theory
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Roncancio, Angelica M.; Muñoz, Becky T.; Carmack, Chakema C.; Ward, Kristy K.; Cano, Miguel A.; Cribbs, Felicity L.; Fernandez-Espada, Natalie – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objective: Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates among Hispanic adolescents in the USA are far below recommended levels. Using a social marketing theory framework, we assessed the four Ps (product, price, place and promotion) as they relate to efforts to promote HPV vaccine initiation. Design: Qualitative study involving in-depth…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Hispanic Americans, Adolescents, Marketing
Will Students Come Back? A July 2021 Parent Survey about School Hesitancy and Parental Preferences for COVID-19 Safety Practices in Schools. Research Report. RR-A1393-2
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Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Grant, David – RAND Corporation, 2021
This report provides the survey questions and weighted responses from a July 2021 survey of parents concerning school hesitancy and preferences for COVID-19 safety practices in schools in the United States. The results are intended to inform school districts' and health officials' planning for operating schools in fall 2021. [For the survey…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Parent Attitudes
Will Students Come Back? A July 2021 Parent Survey about School Hesitancy and Parental Preferences to COVID-19 Safety Practices in Schools--Survey Methods Appendix. Research Report. RR-A1393-2
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Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Grant, David – RAND Corporation, 2021
This document provides the survey methods appendix that accompanies the study, "Will Students Come Back? A July 2021 Parent Survey about School Hesitancy and Parental Preferences for COVID-19 Safety Practices in Schools. Research Report. RR-A1393-2" (ED615819). The appendix provides information about the sample, survey instrument, and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Parent Attitudes