Prerequisites of Willingness to Accept a Covid-19 Vaccine Among the Russian Population

Sorokin, Mikhail Yu.; Лутова, Н. Б.; Мазо, Г. Н.; Kasyanov, E. D.; Рукавишников, Г. В.; Макаревич, Ольга Васильевна; Khobeysh, Maria A.

doi:10.31684/25418475-2021-4-95

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“…Besides the COVID-19 itself, various psychiatric disorders were caused by contradictory and often alarming opinions about the pandemic expressed by the medical community and media representatives [18].…”

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Association of Anxiety and Depression with Objective and Subjective Cognitive Decline in Outpatient Healthcare Consumers with COVID-19: А Cross-Sectional Study

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Kasyanov

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Consortium Psychiatricum

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BACKGROUND: In addition to the neurological complications affecting people infected with COVID-19, cognitive impairment symptoms and symptoms of anxiety and depression remain a frequent cause of complaints. The specificity of cognitive impairment in patients with COVID-19 is still poorly understood. AIM: An exploratory study of factors that may be associated with cognitive decline during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The cross-sectional multicentre observational study was conducted in a polyclinic unit in Saint Petersburg and in the regions of the North-Western Federal Region. During the study, socio-demographic parameters and information about the somatic condition of patients who applied for primary health care was collected. Emotional and cognitive state were investigated using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA). Mathematical and statistical data processing was carried out using SPSS and RStudio statistical programs. RESULTS: The study included 515 participants, 60% (n=310) of which were women. The sample was divided into those who did (28.5%, n=147) and did not (71.4%, n=368) complain of cognitive decline. Patients with complaints of cognitive decline were significantly older, had lower levels of education and higher levels of depression and anxiety according to HADS (p 0.05). Patients with complaints of cognitive decline underwent the MoCA test (24.3%, n=125). The median MoCA test scores were within the normal range (Median=27, Q1=25, Q3=28), and cognitive decline (MoCA less than 26 points) was detected in 40% (n=50) of patients with complaints of cognitive decline. No significant correlations were found between the MoCA scores and the levels of anxiety and depression according to the HADS (p 0.05). Patients with mild severity of the COVID-19 course were more successful with MoCA subtests than patients with moderate and severe courses. CONCLUSION: We found no linear association between objective cognitive deficit and the affective state of respondents. Patients subjective complaints about cognitive dysfunction were mostly caused by their emotional state than an objective decrease of their cognitive functions. Therefore, in case of subjective complaints on cognitive decline, it is necessary to assess not only the cognitive but also the affective state of the patient. The severity of the COVID-19 course affects the functions of the cognitive sphere, including attention, regulatory functions and speech fluency. Mild and moderate severity of the COVID-19 correlates with clinically determined depression. The absence of this relationship with the severe course of the disease is probably explained by the significant somatic decompensation of patients.

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Association of Anxiety and Depression with Objective and Subjective Cognitive Decline in Outpatient Healthcare Consumers with COVID-19: А Cross-Sectional Study

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COVID-19 vaccination readiness among Russian-speaking residents in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2020–2022: a scoping review

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et al. 2023

Ekologiya cheloveka (Human Ecology)

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the mental health and well-being of people around the world. Vaccination is one of the key components of preventing the spread of COVID-19. However, despite the high risks of COVID-19, there is widespread disapproval and hostility towards vaccination and restrictive measures aimed at stopping the infection process. The spread of misinformation about vaccines, which has a long history as far back as the 18th and 19th centuries, increases distrust of immunization, but in turn is based on different beliefs about the sources of health and disease accepted in society. Vaccine skepticism is believed to be one of the global threats to public health and the achievement of population immunity against infections. In this connection, population data on attitudes towards vaccination within the largest possible number of social subgroups are of interest. A review was made of the subject field of scientific articles in Russian from 01/01/2020 to 02/28/2022, which reported on the attitude to vaccination of more than 12 thousand respondents from the Russian-speaking population of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, and described the factors influencing the formation of readiness for immunoprophylaxis against the new coronavirus infection. The percentage of respondents who agreed, disagreed and doubted about the implementation of vaccination was determined, with the calculation of the median values for the included publications without taking into account the weight of each of the presented studies. Compared with a large number of foreign countries, the Russian-speaking population showed both high levels of unwillingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19 (30%) and relatively low rates of readiness for immunoprophylaxis (47%). The factors associated with different types of attitudes towards vaccination were analyzed. The conclusion is made about the validity of using theoretical models for describing health-related behavior to improve the quality and information content of Russian biomedical and socio-psychological research.

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Prerequisites of Willingness to Accept a Covid-19 Vaccine Among the Russian Population

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Association of Anxiety and Depression with Objective and Subjective Cognitive Decline in Outpatient Healthcare Consumers with COVID-19: А Cross-Sectional Study

Association of Anxiety and Depression with Objective and Subjective Cognitive Decline in Outpatient Healthcare Consumers with COVID-19: А Cross-Sectional Study

COVID-19 vaccination readiness among Russian-speaking residents in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2020–2022: a scoping review

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