Yasue Fukuda|Shuji Ando|Koji Fukuda
Knowledge and preventive actions toward COVID-19, vaccination intent, and health literacy among educators in Japan: An online survey
Suzuka University of Medical Science|Tokyo University of Science|Waseda University
countermeasures spread covid19 become urgent issue educational settings many group activities necessary educators key preventing spread covid19 educational settings infection prevention behavior requires comprehensive complex measures selfrestraint disinfection care hand washing wearing masks recommendation implementation vaccination improvement knowledge skills preventive actions educators visvis covid19 could allow continued provision educational services ensuring safety educational settings therefore objective study explore knowledge preventive actions educators regarding covid19 vaccination awareness provide appropriate support educators study used data collected 1000 japanese educators january 2021 third wave viral infections spread online surveys multivariate linear regression analysis used determine age whether respondents cared doctor investigated effects factors educators willingness vaccinated changes behavior study found factors age gender whether respondent physicians care health literacy affected willingness educators receive vaccinations engage preventive actions study also suggests reliability national government public relations efforts lower reliability local government public relations information family physicians pharmacies mass media therefore necessary reexamine information disseminated national government increase degree trust information among public findings study also revealed importance improving provision appropriate information health literacy behavior educators initial outbreak also subsequent period pandemic life