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. 2021 Nov 5;9(11):1285.
doi: 10.3390/vaccines9111285.

Body Appreciation as a Factor Associated with College Students' Willingness to Receive Future COVID-19 Vaccines

Zi-Han Liu  1   2   3 , Wei Bai  1   2   3 , Hong Cai  1   2   3 , Shou Liu  4 , Xu Chen  5 , Han Qi  5 , Rui Liu  5 , Teris Cheung  6 , Zhaohui Su  7 , Todd Jackson  8 , Sha Sha  5 , Yu-Tao Xiang  1   2   3
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Body Appreciation as a Factor Associated with College Students' Willingness to Receive Future COVID-19 Vaccines

Zi-Han Liu et al. Vaccines (Basel). .

Abstract

Background: Following the initial manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines, numerous studies have investigated factors that influence people's vaccination intentions. However, no studies have examined links of vaccination attitudes with body-related attitudes, especially body appreciation. To address this gap in the literature, we conducted this study to disentangle the relationship between college students' COVID-19 vaccination intentions and body appreciation.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among Chinese college students. Participants completed the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) and other questionnaire measures of demographics, intentions to be vaccinated, and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination programs.

Results: A total of 2058 college students participated in this study. Students who were willing to get COVID-19 vaccines had significantly higher BAS-2 scores than did those who were unwilling to receive a vaccine (3.61 ± 0.84 vs. 3.34 ± 0.92, p < 0.001). A hierarchical multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to test the association between body appreciation and COVID-19 vaccine intentions when controlling for other covariates; elevated BAS-2 scores were associated with greater willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccines (OR = 1.250, 95%CI: 1.112-1.406, p < 0.001), independent of other significant influences.

Conclusion: Our study was the first to reveal that body appreciation is a significant factor related to college students' COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Public health interventions designed to improve people's body-appreciation levels may help in efforts to promote universal immunization.

Keywords: COVID-19 vaccine; body appreciation; college student; vaccination intentions.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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P-P plot of Age.
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P-P plot of BMI.
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P-P plot of BAS-2 score.
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