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. 2023 Sep 22;41(41):6120-6126.
doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.08.075. Epub 2023 Sep 1.

Correlates of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Arkansas: Results from a weighted random sample survey

Don E Willis  1 , Ramey Moore  1 , Jennifer A Andersen  1 , Ji Li  2 , James P Selig  2 , Joshua C McKinnon  3 , Morgan Gurel-Headley  4 , Sharon Reece  5 , Pearl A McElfish  6
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Correlates of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Arkansas: Results from a weighted random sample survey

Don E Willis et al. Vaccine. .

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Abstract

We assessed COVID-19 vaccination (≥1 dose) status as influenced by sociodemographic factors (i.e., age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, income, and parent or guardian status), healthcare provider recommendation, and personal vaccine hesitancy among Arkansas residents in October 2022. We asked: did the likelihood of vaccination differ across sociodemographic groups of Arkansas during this period of the pandemic? Is COVID-19 vaccination associated with recommendations from healthcare providers and/or COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? We analyzed data from a random sample survey of adults in Arkansas (N = 2,201). Three in four adults self-reported vaccination against COVID-19 in October 2022. We found both positive and negative association between COVID-19 vaccination and age, gender, race/ethnicity, education, income, healthcare provider recommendation, and vaccine hesitancy. We highlight racial differences in COVID-19 coverage and the higher odds of COVID-19 vaccination among Black adults compared to White adults in particular, which has broad implications for the study of vaccine coverage and hesitancy. We also discuss implications of our findings regarding healthcare provider recommendations to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccine; COVID-19 vaccine correlates; Healthcare provider reccomendations; Vaccine coverage; Vaccine hesitancy.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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