Factors influencing attitudes toward vaccination in general and against COVID-19 among family medicine patients with and without chronic disease in Croatia

Key Points

• Identify factors influencing COVID-19 vaccination attitudes among family medicine patients in Croatia, particularly considering chronic disease status.
• Surveyed family medicine patients in Croatia regarding their vaccination decisions and influences.
• Analyzed the association of vaccination attitudes with prior infections and vaccination history.
• Evaluated the impact of social connections to deaths from COVID-19 on vaccination willingness.
• Vaccination decisions correlated with lack of prior COVID-19 infection.
• Knowing someone who died from COVID-19 positively influenced vaccination attitudes.
• Prior influenza vaccination was also a predictor of COVID-19 vaccination tendencies.

Abstract