ArticleHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2025
Seasonal influenza vaccination uptake among health and medical college students: A discrete choice experiment.
Article in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Seasonal influenza is a highly contagious virus posing significant health risks, especially to children, pregnant women, and older adults. Despite its crucial role in prevention and reducing severity, vaccination rates among medical and health students, who frequently interact with vulnerable groups, remain low. This study investigates attributes of influenza vaccines that predict vaccination decisions within this population, while also examining how these preferences vary based on the health literacy levels of the respondents. Between May and June 2024, 239 Slovenian medical and health students completed an online discrete choice experiment presenting vaccines varying in efficacy, side effects, and administration site. Preferences were analyzed to identify key attributes. Results showed that higher efficacy and fewer side effects drove vaccine choice across all disciplines. Medical students favored faculty-based vaccination, whereas nursing and other health discipline students preferred GP offices and NIPH units. Health literacy did not alter the importance of efficacy and safety, but those with sufficient literacy showed a stronger preference for GP settings over faculty sites. Campaigns should emphasize vaccine efficacy and the low risk of severe side effects, reassuring that mild reactions are transient. Facilitating GP-based vaccination for nursing and other health discipline students may further improve uptake.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.