Uptake of COVID-19 Vaccination Among Frontline Workers in California State Prisons

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    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsIRB: Stanford’s institutional review board approved the study (protocol numbers IRB-55835, IRB-55671).
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    No key resources detected.


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    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    Our study has several limitations. First, generalizability to prisons outside California and to workers in other high-risk settings is unknown. Second, designing and implementing optimal strategies for boosting uptake of Covid-19 vaccines requires detailed understanding of the knowledge, beliefs, and preferences of the hesitant, and we did not measure these factors. Third, CDCR records may have missed vaccines obtained by some staff outside CDR’s program. However, such misclassification is likely to have been uncommon because CDCR required notification and staff who did not show proof of vaccination were required to undergo a continuous testing regimen. Fourth, our measures of co-worker and home community influences are crude; studies with qualitative and mixed-method designs are better able to engage with the nuances of personal motivations. Finally, because of the rapid rollout and sharp uptake of vaccination among staff members who chose to get vaccinated, we were unable to analyze uptake decisions over time as a function of personal experiences with infection and co-worker vaccine decisions. Despite ongoing risks of Delta-variant Covid-19 outbreaks in high-risk carceral settings like the state prisons of California, vaccination rates among prison staff continue to lag those of incarcerated residents. Younger staff, and staff who have had Covid-19, staff who are disproportionately opting to remain unvaccinated may be doing so in part because they perceive themselves to be ...

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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