{"id":279826,"date":"2022-07-11T02:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/?p=279826"},"modified":"2022-07-11T02:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T20:34:31","slug":"age-big-factor-in-covid-vaccine-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/age-big-factor-in-covid-vaccine-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Age, big factor in Covid vaccine views"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your age may play a huge role in whether you\u2019ll decide to get a COVID vaccine, new research finds.
Though vaccine hesitancy due to personal politics has drawn a lot of media attention, a University of Georgia study reveals it\u2019s not the only consideration.
The link between vaccines and politics is \u201cnot so much true as people get older,\u201d noted study author Glen Nowak. He co-directs the Center for Health and Risk Communication at the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, in Athens, Ga.
In fact, \u201cpeople who are 65 and older are almost universally vaccinated, particularly as you start getting to 75 and older,\u201d Nowak said.
For the study, his team surveyed a nationally representative sample of more than 1,000 Americans. The researchers wanted to learn whether respondents\u2019 political party, preferred news source and factors like age, gender, race\/ethnicity and education would affect vaccine acceptance.
The investigators found that respondents 50 and older tended to consider themselves at greater risk while worrying that getting COVID-19 would have a negative impact on their daily lives.
The youngest respondents, however, were less likely to worry about getting the virus or to consider themselves at risk of severe illness.
\u201cLooking at 18- to 29-year-olds, it\u2019s not surprising that they are the group with the lowest overall COVID vaccination rates because they\u2019re not a group that is suffering serious illness and death from COVID,\u201d Nowak said in a university news release. \u201cAre there instances of that? Absolutely. But it\u2019s relatively rare. I think many people in that age group understand that.\u201d
Still, even with differences in age, political affiliation and where participants got their news were the most consistent predictors of how they felt about their COVID risk and their vaccine intent, according to the study.
Liberals were more likely than conservatives to consider the virus a bigger threat to their daily lives, worry about becoming ill and think symptoms could be severe. They also were more concerned they could pass the disease to others, more likely to accept the vaccine and to trust public health officials.
Compared with conservatives, liberals and moderates believed medical care and treatment would be more difficult to access.
And, in a finding that surprised the researchers, the survey showed that respondents who received their news from a mix of conservative and liberal sources were more likely to be vaccine hesitant than those who only consumed partisan news.
\u201cIf you had asked us before \u2026 this study, we would have said pretty confidently that people who were looking at a wide array of information would be much more likely to be vaccinated and have much more confidence in the vaccine,\u201d Nowak said. \u201cWhat this suggested was the opposite in many instances. Many people who tried or said that they looked at a broad spectrum of information sources came away less confident and more uncertain about the vaccine and its value.\u201d
The authors suggested that public health messages should be tailored to specific audiences, in part because those who aren\u2019t at high risk tune those messages out.
\u201cThis data shows you can\u2019t assume interest and attention from younger people and those who are less affected by COVID-19,\u201d Nowak said. \u201cIt\u2019s a good reminder that we can\u2019t just blast, \u2018Everybody should be afraid of getting severe COVID.\u2019 That\u2019s not an effective communication strategy.\u201d
The findings were recently published online in the International Journal of Strategic Communication.
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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