Alcohol: A Double-Edged Sword in the Fight Against COVID-19

Bahariniya, Sajjad; Madadizadeh, Farzan

doi:10.5812/jhealthscope.113136

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“…Researches have been done on vaccine uptake across several studies in third world countries15 survey samples in ten low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) i.e Asia, Africa and South America, Russia (an upper-middle-income country) and the United States with 44,260 study persons [5]. These studies have highlighted that there was a positive attitude towards covid 19 vaccine in our LMIC samples (mean 80.3%; median 78%; range 30.1 percentage points) in relation with the United States (mean 64.6%) and Russia (mean 30.4%) [6].…”

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“…The current world problem (COVID-19) has seen 257 million people, 5.1 million perished. Both curative and preventive measures were put in place to reduce infections of confirmed cases and reduce case fatalities [5]. However, the preventive measures to solve this problem failed over a period of time.…”

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“…The vaccines prevent the infection from becoming worse. Large population vaccination programs have been into being but their success has been hampered by refusal of some people to receive the vaccine jab [5].…”

Section: ) Scope and Trends In Covid-19 Globallymentioning

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COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake in Kenya

Wamalwa

2023

EJMED

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SARS-CoV-2 virus is the major cause of viral disease, COVID-19 which is highly infectious, WHO did its roll out for coordination, policy and technical guidance. About 64.5% of the population globally have had one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. Close to vaccines have been administered with 18.3 million daily. In low middle Countries, approximately 14.5% have received atleast a single dose. A number of researches have come up with vaccines to curb COVID-19 disease. A researches conducted among the exposed people -60 years and above, who are frontline workers, health care workers, persons with comorbidities. Different researches have been carried out in different cities like Quantitative data presented descriptively and qualitative, thematically. A number of factors dictated the willingness to take up the vaccine, these included confidence in the vaccine, more than personal factors of participants. The respondents revealed mistrust from most people both in developed and non-developed countries, believe in God’s protection and ignorance in vaccine development. On the other hand, peer pressure and effectiveness of the vaccination programmes among childhood diseases contributed to low uptake of the vaccine. Conclusion: attention ought to be given to factors promoting vaccine uptake and misconceptions should be expelled concerning the disease. Recommendations: Strengthen disease surveillance at all stages and regularly updating of COVID-19 data to national level by vaccinating counties, Counties are required to increase researches on more about the disease, use COVID-19 data for decision making in terms of curbing the disease and give refresher course on health care workers surveillance.

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Wamalwa

2023

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“…[ 8 ] Despite the efforts of countries and the fight against narcotic drugs, high-risk smoking behavior because of family structures and cultures, hanging with wrong crowd and miscommunications, social networks, and interest in gaining experience is still common. Today, about 20 percent of the world's population is smoking;[ 9 ] although smoking is declining in developed countries, it is on the rise in developing countries. [ 10 ] In Iran, as a developing country, according to the statistics of 2018, the prevalence of smoking at the age of 15 years and above in men, in women, and in general was equal to 24.6%, 1.3%, and 14%, respectively.…”

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Development and validation of a questionnaire based on the protection motivation theory to predict cigarette smoking preventive behavior in the Iranian university students

Mahmoodabad¹,

Abdollahi²,

Lotfi³

et al. 2023

Journal of Education and Health Promotion

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BACKGROUND: Prevention of smoking is very important at a young age and during the student period. Because of the lack of a questionnaire based on the prevention of smoking behavior, this study was conducted to design and standardize a tool according to the protection motivation theory (PMT). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was an analytical cross-sectional study where information and opinions of experts and then designing tools and assessing the face validity in the first phase and content validity, construct validity, test–retest reliability, and internal consistency of questions in the second phase were examined. The initial themes and structures were determined based on the literature Review and the opinion of experts. Three hundred students of Yazd Universities were selected by cluster sampling and included in the study. All analyses were performed in SPSS and AMOS software version 24 with a significance level of less than 5%. RESULTS: The final version of the scale had 39 questions in eight dimensions. The overall Cronbach's alpha value was 0.89, and for each dimension, it was more than 0.7. The content validity ratio and content validity index for the whole tool were 0.87 and 0.94, respectively. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the latent construct model had good fit (X2/df = 4.31; RMSEA = 0.07; CFI = 0.94; NFI = 0.92; TLI = 0.91, P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: In this study, a valid and reliable tool based on PMT to predict smoking behavior in students was introduced. This tool can be used in interventional and etiological studies. It also has questions related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid 19) virus and can be used in the coronavirus pandemic.

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“…In Nigeria, the media space which has been dominated by various social media platforms such as Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook has witnessed its share of the global COVID-19 infodemic, which has increased since the reported first COVID-19 case in Nigeria (27 th of February 2020) (13). The COVID-19 infodemic was characterized by distrust of science; misinformation by several experts in science and medicine, religious leaders, and the government.…”

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investigating the effect of Infodemic on the Perception and Willingness to Take the COVID – 19 Vaccine in Delta State, Nigeria

Kingsley¹,

Chukwuemeke²

2022

JCHR

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Introduction: The rollout of COVID-19 vaccine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by infodemic. This study ascertained the influence of infodemic on individuals’ willingness to be vaccinated for increased vaccine coverage in Delta State. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 2500 respondents across the twenty five Local Government Areas in Delta State, with age of at least 15 years were selected using stratified random sampling to provide an appropriate demographic representation. A researcher – made questionnaire including demographic characteristics and questions related to participants' knowledge and attitude regarding COVID-19 vaccine was used. Descriptive Statistics of Frequency (Percentage) was used for data analysis using Microsoft Excel software version 2016. Results: Demography of respondents showed that secondary education was highest (43%), while 50% of the respondents were urban dwellers. 80.44% of the respondents admitted to the existence of the virus, while 45.84% admitted to its existence in Delta State. 27.68% of the respondents were willing to take the COVID-19 vaccine; while 58.08% declined. 63% of respondents had access to social media; and majority of them (52%) admitted to not verifying health information seen on social media with medical experts. Majority of the respondents willing to take the vaccine were aged 45 to 60 years (42.37%); reside in urban areas, have tertiary education, access to social media; and often verified health information with medical experts. Infodemic about the COVID-19 vaccine and lack of trust in the government were identified as the major debilitating factors to the public acceptance of the vaccine. Conclusion: Improving COVID-19 vaccine coverage in Delta State requires a holistic approach of combating misinformation about the vaccine,, regulation of health information shared on the social media space, and criminalizing the act of infodemic.

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Alcohol: A Double-Edged Sword in the Fight Against COVID-19

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COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake in Kenya

COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake in Kenya

Development and validation of a questionnaire based on the protection motivation theory to predict cigarette smoking preventive behavior in the Iranian university students

investigating the effect of Infodemic on the Perception and Willingness to Take the COVID – 19 Vaccine in Delta State, Nigeria

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