Vaccination Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Among Healthcare Students in Spain: Development and Psychometric Validation of a Life-Course Immunization Questionnaire
Magdalena Santana-Armas, Olalla Vazquez-Cancela, Isabel Ferreiro-Cadahía, Cristina Peiteado-Romay, Daniel Lorenzo-Fuente, Cristina Fernández-Pérez, Juan Manuel Vazquez-Lago · 2025
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Description
Santana-Armas and co-authors built and tested a Spanish questionnaire on what health care students know, feel, and do about vaccination across the life course. Vaccine hesitancy threatens coverage, yet few tools measure these views in future health workers. Their survey went to students on clinical placements at one Spanish university hospital in 2024-2025, and 398 students completed it.
Expert review and a pilot phase trimmed the survey from thirty-four items to thirty, grouped in nine themes. The final version scored well on internal consistency, and a factor analysis backed the nine-theme structure, which explained about sixty-one percent of the variation in answers. Most students said science evidence shaped their views, and three quarters backed required vaccination for health staff. The authors offer the tool for planning teaching.
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| CREATOR | Magdalena Santana-Armas, Olalla Vazquez-Cancela, Isabel Ferreiro-Cadahía, Cristina Peiteado-Romay, Daniel Lorenzo-Fuente, Cristina Fernández-Pérez, Juan Manuel Vazquez-Lago |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |