Gender differences in the intention to get vaccinated against COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Author	Zintel, Stephanie Flock, Charlotte Arbogast, Anna Lisa Forster, Alice von Wagner, Christian Sieverding, Monika
Abstract	AimWe conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to analyse gender differences in COVID-19 vaccination intentions.Subject and methodsPubMed, Web of Science and PsycInfo were searched (November 2020 to January 2021) for studies reporting absolute frequencies of COVID-19 vaccination intentions by gender. Averaged odds ratios comparing vaccination intentions among men and women were computed. Descriptive analyses of the studies were reported.ResultsSixty studies were included in the review and data from 46 studies (n = 141,550) were available for meta-analysis. A majority (58%) of papers reported men to have higher intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Meta-analytic calculations showed that significantly fewer women stated that they would get vaccinated than men, OR 1.41 (95% CI 1.28 to 1.55). This effect was evident in several countries, and the difference was bigger in samples of health care workers than in unspecified general population samples.ConclusionThis systematic review and meta-analysis found lower vaccination intentions among women than men. This difference is discussed in the light of recent data on actual vaccination rates in different countries.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10389-021-01677-w.
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ISSN	21981833
Journal	Zeitschrift Fur Gesundheitswissenschaften [Z Gesundh Wiss]
DOI	10.1007/s10389-021-01677-w
PubMed Central reference number	PMC8739532
PubMed reference number	35018277
e-ISSN	16132238
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher Date	2022-01-07
Publisher Place	Berlin/Heidelberg
Access Restriction	Open
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Subject Keyword	Covid-19 Vaccination intention Gender differences Health care workers Systematic review Meta-analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine