20.500.12556/DKUM-90923 Understanding vaccine hesitancy a comparison of sociodemographic and socioeconomic predictors with health literacy dimensions Vaccine hesitancy represents a global public health challenge that can diminish the effectiveness of vaccination programs. Research indicates that various sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors, along with health literacy, predict vaccine hesitancy. In this study, we analyzed data from a Slovenian health literacy survey that included 3360 adult participants. We examined the effects of sociodemographic (gender and age) and socioeconomic factors (education, economic deprivation, and self-assessed socioeconomic status), as well as different dimensions of health literacy (general, communicative, and navigational), on vaccine hesitancy. The results show that age, education, and economic deprivation are statistically significant predictors of vaccine hesitancy; younger individuals, those with lower education levels, and those experiencing greater economic deprivation express increased vaccine hesitancy. Higher levels of general and communicative health literacy are associated with lower vaccine hesitancy, while navigational health literacy was not found to be a statistically significant predictor of vaccine hesitancy. vaccine hesitancy Slovenia health literacy sociodemographic factors socioeconomic factors oklevanje pred cepljenjem Slovenija zdravstvena pismenost sociodemografski dejavniki socioekonomska neenakost true true true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Slovenija; Znanstveno delo 2024-10-08 03:10:50 2024-10-08 07:32:01 2025-03-01 03:12:43 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2024 0 0 str. 1-12 št. 10, št. članka 1141 Letn. 12 2024 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2024-08-25 2024-09-30 2024-10-03 316.4:614.47 210441219 10.3390/vaccines12101141 2076-393X RAZ_Lamot_Monika_2024.pdf RAZ_Lamot_Monika_2024.pdf 1 0D5786C3BE0A2E62590E4D223C1B81CE 2baba223cfcc5d18cb279bf74cb059197e6f46323f1829e75dfa4ef048580404 38adb955-f5b1-11ef-a2be-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=188900 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/12/10/1141 1 29192ee8-8512-11ef-825c-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=186308 Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0