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Direct linkIsaac 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
Debendra Nath Roy; Ekramul Islam; Md. Mohabbot Hossen; Nowrin Ferdiousi; Md. Shah Azam – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Administering coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines among the student of higher secondary schools has unprecedented importance for securing community health and ensuring in-person class attainment. This study investigated higher secondary students' COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and identified the underlying sociopsychological determinants of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
Dana Zaina; Zahra Aemehdoust; Christiane Klinner; Alexandra Young; Iva Strnadová; Horas Wong; Christy E. Newman; Cristyn Davies; S. Rachel Skinner; Margie Danchin; Rebecca Guy; Allison Carter – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: Adolescents with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) are reported to have lower uptake of routine vaccines than their peers. Little research has explored stakeholders' perceptions and support of school-based vaccinations for this population in NSW, Australia. Methods: Focus groups and interviews were conducted with four…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Immunization Programs
Satterthwaite Muresianu, Emma; Weinstock, Rachel E.; Arams, Ryan; Vorawandthanachai, Thammatat; Ferrera, Alexander; Forero, Juan Pablo; Torres Maita, Yumarlin; Dolan, Siobhan M. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Since the introduction of the HPV vaccine in Chile in 2014, there have been few studies exploring parental perspectives on the vaccine or on adolescent sex and sexuality education, and even fewer exploring fathers' perspectives. Subsequent to an earlier study of Chilean mothers' attitudes towards the HPV vaccine and adolescent sexual health and…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs
Greyson, Devon; Dubé, Ève; Fisher, William A.; Cook, Jocelynn; Sadarangani, Manish; Bettinger, Julie A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
To improve uptake of influenza vaccine in pregnancy, it is important to understand the factors that predict prenatal vaccination. The aim of this study was to test the capability of the theory of planned behavior, augmented with information constructs, to predict and explain influenza vaccination uptake in a sample of 600 pregnant individuals in…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Immunization Programs, Public Opinion, Intention
Download full textDimitra Perifanou; Eleni Konstantinou; Anne Nikula; Kristina Grendova; Aija Ahokas; Joan-Carles Casas-Baroy; Daniela Cavani; Paola Ferri; Paola Galbany-Estragués; Cinzia Gradellini; Michaela Machajova; Daniela Mecugni; Sari Nyman; Xavier Palomar-Aumatell; Janka Prnova; Montse Romero Mas; Carme Roure Pujol; Heli Thomander; Evanthia Sakellari – Higher Education Studies, 2024
Immunization is a highly cost-effective investment in health, proven to be an effective tool in controlling and eliminating dangerous infectious diseases. Health science students require evidence-based knowledge to tackle challenges in healthcare, particularly in the field of vaccination. The aim of the current study is to asses students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Communicable Diseases
Burns, Sharyn; Selvey, Linda; Roux, Felicity – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2021
In Australia, school-based immunisation programmes (SBIP) provide Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations to secondary school students. However, despite such free programmes, around 20% of girls and 25% of boys do not complete all doses. This formative study identified barriers and enablers to vaccine completion. Online surveys were conducted with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immunization Programs, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Secondary School Students
Nandha, B.; Meenakshy, V.; Abdul Khader, Nazer; Vijayakumar, K. N.; Jambulingam, P. – Health Education Research, 2019
Lymphatic filariasis (LF), a neglected tropical disease is targeted for elimination globally by 2020. National Health Policy of India set the goal by 2017 and annual single-dose mass drug administration (MDA) with anti-filarial drugs is in operation in endemic districts since 2004. Performance and effectiveness of MDA was diverse across the nation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Diseases, Immunization Programs
Emma Brooks – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
Researching in heterogeneous communities can present challenges for the most experienced of researchers, especially in the context of ethnographic work, where the dynamism and unpredictability of a research setting can make it difficult to anticipate the languages spoken. Drawing on data from multilingual health consultations, I reflect on…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Ethnography, Second Language Learning, Health Services
Rockliffe, Lauren; McBride, Emily; Heffernan, Catherine; Forster, Alice S. – Journal of School Nursing, 2020
This study sought to identify barriers and facilitators to delivery of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in schools. Four focus groups were conducted with 28 staff members, from four National Health Service school-aged vaccination (SAV) teams in London. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. School engagement and support, and…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Barriers, Health Behavior, School Role
Ahmad Y. Alqassim; Anwar M. Makeen; Mohammed S. Mahfouz; Anas E. Ahmed; Osama B. Albasheer; Mohammad R. Zaino; Mohammad H. Abutaleb; Maged A. El-Setouhy; Abdullah A. Alharbi; Mohammed A. Muaddi – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2022
Disability constitutes a significant health problem in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Research assessing the health needs of people with disabilities in KSA is scarce. This study aimed to assess what physical and hearing disable persons need from healthcare services and to investigate difficulties in accessing these services in the Jazan area.…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Diseases, Mental Health, Health Services
Singh, Chandra B. P. – Issues and Ideas in Education, 2022
Background: Learning losses does not mean forgetting only curricular learning but slipping back of fundamental learning abilities that learner would have acquired during schooling. School closures in India have severely disrupted learning processes of children resulting in learning losses and social gaps in academic outcomes. Though school closure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
UNICEF, 2020
This report summarizes the challenges, opportunities and proposed actions during and in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic as they relate to social protection, emergencies, the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programme, immunization, education, child protection, nutrition, climate change, migrants, adolescents, mental health, gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Emergency Programs
UNICEF, 2021
Almost two years into the pandemic, its widespread impact continues to deepen, increasing poverty and entrenching inequality. While some countries are recovering and rebuilding in a 'new normal', for too many, COVID-19 remains a catastrophe. The unequal rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is putting entire communities at risk. And as new variants…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Social Bias
Trayner, Kirsten M. A.; Anderson, Niall; Cameron, J. Claire – Health Education Journal, 2019
Background: In response to an outbreak of severe meningococcal disease caused by serogroup W, the UK introduced the meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY) for adolescents and new university students as a control measure. Objective: To estimate MenACWY vaccine uptake and identify factors associated with uptake, barriers and motivations towards vaccination…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Diseases, Adolescents, Barriers
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