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. 2022 Sep 1;10(9):1438.
doi: 10.3390/vaccines10091438.

COVID-19 Vaccination among HIV+ Patients: An Italian Cross-Sectional Survey

Fabrizio Bert  1 , Alex Pivi  1 , Antonino Russotto  1 , Benedetta Mollero  2 , Gianluca Voglino  3 , Giancarlo Orofino  4 , Roberta Siliquini  1   5
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COVID-19 Vaccination among HIV+ Patients: An Italian Cross-Sectional Survey

Fabrizio Bert et al. Vaccines (Basel). .

Abstract

Background: This study aims to evaluate knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of HIV-patients about COVID-19 vaccination.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted by administering questionnaires to 160 patients followed by Amedeo di Savoia Hospital in Turin. Statistical analyses were performed in order to identify predictors of infection and severity of COVID-19 disease risk perception.

Results: The 86.2% of patients were vaccinated for COVID-19, while 7.6% do not intend to be vaccinated; 50.7% thought that there is a minimal risk to get COVID-19; 85.8% thought that COVID-19 is a serious illness. The 56% and the 36.5 thought that seropositivity carries a greater risk to develop respectively COVID-19-related complications or vaccine complications. At the multivariate analysis having a job, proactive research of vaccine information and being HIV+ for several years are related to a lower risk perception of infection. The perception of COVID-19 severity is influenced by age, by being LGB and by believing that HIV+ status correlates with a higher risk of developing complications from COVID-19.

Conclusions: as the pandemic can adversely impact the HIV care with increasing loss to follow-up, vaccination is essential to contrast infection in HIV+ patients. Our findings suggested that some HIV+ patients refuse vaccination against COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; HIV; PLWH; risk perception; vaccine; vaccine hesitancy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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