Applicability of risk compensation to the relationship between health behaviors and COVID-19 vaccination among inpatients in Taizhou, China.
Aim: Based on the risk compensation theory, this study was designed to investigate the relationship between health behaviors of inpatients and COVID-19 vaccination during the epidemic with regard to the Omicron variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Taizhou, C...
| Published in: | Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) Vol. 32; no. 5; pp. 887 - 894 |
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May2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=177775727&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 177775727 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 21981833 NENI jtl: Journal of Public Health: From Theory to Practice (2198-1833) issn: 21981833 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: May2024 vid: 32 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 177775727 10.1007/s10389-023-01865-w ppf: 887 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: Applicability of risk compensation to the relationship between health behaviors and COVID-19 vaccination among inpatients in Taizhou, China. aug: au: Chen, Liguang Tung, Tao-Hsin Zhang, Xinxin Wang, Gang affil: Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, 317000, Taizhou, China su: China Fear Hospital care Emotions Anxiety Health behavior Patients' attitudes COVID-19 pandemic Questionnaires COVID-19 vaccines Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Medical masks Data analysis software sug: subj: Fear Hospital care Emotions Anxiety Health behavior Patients' attitudes COVID-19 pandemic China Questionnaires COVID-19 vaccines Descriptive statistics Chi-squared test Medical masks Data analysis software keyword: COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine Health behaviors Risk compensation COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccine Health behaviors Risk compensation ab: Aim: Based on the risk compensation theory, this study was designed to investigate the relationship between health behaviors of inpatients and COVID-19 vaccination during the epidemic with regard to the Omicron variant of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in Taizhou, China. Subject and methods: We conducted an online self-administered survey with a group of inpatients in a grade III, class A hospital in Taizhou, China, from February 27, 2022, to March 8, 2022. A total of 562 complete questionnaires were collected, and 18 questionnaires completed in under 180 seconds were rejected, leaving a total of 544 (96.8%) valid questionnaires collected. The participants who had received a COVID-19 vaccine were asked to describe the differences in their health behaviors before and after the vaccination, and the data were analyzed using SPSS Statistics version 22.0 software. Results: There were significant differences in the percentage of individuals wearing masks (97.2% and 78.9%, P < 0.001) and the percentage of hand washing after taking off the mask (89.1% and 63.2%, P < 0.001) between the inoculated group and the uninoculated group; however, there were no significant differences in other health behaviors. The participants showed better health behaviors (handwashing and wearing a mask) after the vaccination than prior to it. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that the Peltzman effect did not increase risk behaviors during the Omicron epidemic. There was no reduction in health behaviors among inpatients after the COVID-19 vaccine, which may have even improved their health behaviors. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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