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Ihsan Ghazal; Hayat Hokayem – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Research suggests that students hold misconceptions about the immune system, but little is known about how they reason about the mechanisms by which the immune system operates. This study investigated how students reasoned about the immune system in Beirut, Lebanon. The study used a qualitative approach and investigated 16 Grade 12 participants…
Descriptors: High School Students, Misconceptions, Grade 12, Physiology
Understanding Chinese International Students' Perception of Flu Vaccination on U.S. College Campuses
Huixin Deng; Michelle I. Seelig; Léi Y. Sun – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study examines Chinese international students' underlying beliefs and overall perception of the flu vaccination to inform effective health promotion efforts on U.S. college campuses. Participants: Data were collected in March 2020. Participants (N = 189) were recruited via email at a southeastern university in the U.S. Methods:…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Asians, College Students, Immunization Programs
Fiorenzo Parziale – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2024
The aim of this paper is to propose an original analysis of the association between social status and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines regarding upper-secondary students in Italy. The research was conducted by administering an online survey on a probabilistic and stratified sample of 5,699 students, in the spring of 2021, when the vaccination…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
Edward B. Lewin; Dawn M. Bellanti; Courtney C. Boyd; Walter A. Orenstein; Joseph A. Bellanti – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
Background: While vaccines have reduced the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccine hesitancy threatens the re-emergence of childhood infectious diseases. Purpose: This randomized controlled study evaluated an online vaccine education program to advance vaccine acceptance among middle-school students. Methodology: Study participants…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Immunization Programs, Online Courses, Student Attitudes
Meg L. Small; Robert P. Lennon; John J. Dziak; Rachel A. Smith; Gillian Sommerville; Nita Bharti – Journal of American College Health, 2024
On college campuses, effective management of vaccine-preventable transmissible pathogens requires understanding student vaccination intentions. This is necessary for developing and tailoring health messaging to maximize uptake of health information and vaccines. The current study explored students' beliefs and attitudes about vaccines in general,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs
Yanmengqian Zhou; Ruobing Li; Lijiang Shen – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: The study tested potential factors that differentiated the COVID-19 vaccine-hesitant and -inclined college students and, based on these factors, identified subgroups of the vaccine-hesitant students. Participants: Participants were 1,183 U.S. college students attending four-year universities or community colleges recruited through…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
Tammy S. Garland; Karen McGuffee; Dawn Ford; Emma Dotson – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Although vaccination requirements have been a mainstay of university admissions, the recent shift in vaccination and other preventative measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has been met with resistance. Reviewing the vaccination literature, there has been an apparent shift in support for university vaccinations, which is largely a result of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs, Prevention
Ruth Wareham – Educational Theory, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the importance of vaccination and public attitudes toward it firmly to the fore. However, vaccine hesitancy and refusal remain significant barriers to global uptake, with post-pandemic declines in routine immunization contributing to disease outbreaks worldwide. Research shows that education plays a vital role in…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Advocacy, Immunization Programs, COVID-19
Kitt Lee; Dominic Siaw; Gladys Ekong – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objectives: This study assessed the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine and factors related to vaccination coverage among college students in a university setting. Methods: A cross-sectional study design included undergraduate and graduate students in a university community as study participants. Survey questions assessed the uptake of the COVID-19…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs
Wolfe, Amy; Rowland, Tiffany; Blackburn, Jennifer Creque – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
This study explores Ohio Early Childhood and Care (ECEC) workers' perspectives about different prioritization for COVID-19 vaccine distribution between Ohio educators employed in ECEC and prek-12 settings. Days after Ohio's shutdown, ECEC programs began reopening for children of essential workers, and by June 2020 all ECEC programs could reopen…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Caregivers, COVID-19, Pandemics
Lee, Jiyoung; Kang, Dayoung; Lee, Hee Yun; Kim, Ji Won – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objectives: This study aimed to examine the joint effect of two core message elements -- authoritative source and argument strength -- in correction tweets to counter conspiratorial misinformation about the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Design/Method: An online experiment with US residents (N = 404) was conducted in a 2 (authoritative…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Misinformation, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control
Amidon, Christine; Haapala, Lori M.; Whitney, Stacey – National Association of School Nurses, 2022
It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that reaching high vaccination coverage of school-age children, as outlined in Healthy People 2030 (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], 2021a), is an essential public health objective. The National Strategic Plan for the United States 2021-2025 highlights…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Immunization Programs, Access to Health Care, School Nurses
Kristina Mullis – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In January 2020, the World Health Organization declared the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak to be a public health emergency. More than 500 million cases and more than 6 million deaths have been reported, with these numbers growing each day. A major public health initiative for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic was vaccine development…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Immunization Programs, College Students
Tiwonge K. Mtande; Carl Lombard; Gonasagrie Nair; Stuart Rennie – Research Ethics, 2024
Although the use of the cluster randomized trial (CRT) design to evaluate vaccines, public health interventions or health systems is increasing, the ethical issues posed by the design are not adequately addressed, especially in low- and middle-income country settings (LMICs). To help reveal ethical challenges, qualitative interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Ethics, Randomized Controlled Trials, Medical Research
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