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Uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in a medium secure psychiatric hospital population
Gibbon, Simon D. McPhail, Emma Mills, Georgina McBride, Martin Storer, Rebekah Taylor, Nicholas McCarthy, Lucy
Gibbon, Simon D.
McPhail, Emma
Mills, Georgina
McBride, Martin
Storer, Rebekah
Taylor, Nicholas
McCarthy, Lucy
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Patients in medium secure hospitals may be at particularly increased risk of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and complications. We undertook a service evaluation involving all current in-patients within a single, English medium secure hospital to describe the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine among this population. Data regarding capacity to consent to the vaccine, acceptance/refusal of this (and reasons for refusal) and demographics was retrospectively collected from the patients' clinical records and analysed. In total, 85 patients (92.4% of eligible patients) had capacity to decide if they wanted the COVID-19 vaccine. Of these 68 (80.0%) consented and 17 (20.0%) declined to consent. A similar proportion of patients aged under and over 40 years old consented to have the vaccine. Those from a Black Asian minority ethnic background were more likely to decline the vaccine than White British patients. The reasons for capacitous refusal appeared similar to those seen in the general population.
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2021
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Immunisation, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Medium security facilities, Psychiatric hospitals, Epidemiology, Comorbidity
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Gibbon, S. D., McPhail, E., Mills, G., McBride, M., Storer, R., Taylor, N. & McCarthy, L. (2021). Uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in a medium secure psychiatric hospital population. BJPsych Open, 7(4), pp.e108.
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Royal College of Psychiatrists