Journal Article

Vaccine hesitancy among working-age adults with/without disability in the UK

By E. Emerson, V. Totsika, Z. Aitken, T. King, R.P. Hastings, C. Hatton, R.J. Stancliffe, G. Llewellyn and A. Kavanagh

Publication details

Publication date
Published in
Public Health
Volume
200
Pages
pp. 106–108
Publisher
Elsevier
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.09.019
ISSN
333506

Summary

Objectives:

To estimate levels of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among working-age adults with disabilities in the United Kingdom.
Study design:

Cross-sectional survey.
Methods

Secondary analysis of data collected on a nationally representative sample of 10,114 respondents aged 16–64 years.
Results:

The adjusted relative risk for hesitancy among respondents with a disability was 0.92 (95% CI 0.67–1.27). There were stronger associations between gender and hesitancy and ethnic status and hesitancy among participants with a disability. The most common reasons cited by people with disabilities who were hesitant were: concern about the future effects of the vaccine, not trusting vaccines and concern about the side effects of vaccination.
Conclusions:

The higher rates of vaccine hesitancy among women with disabilities and among people from minority ethnic groups with disabilities are concerning.

Notes

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