Introduction: To contain the COVID-19 pandemic, higher vaccination rates are essential. However, as vaccine hesitancy is a reality, it is important to understand what drives health professionals to refuse getting vaccinated against COVID-19, who have been in the frontline of this pandemic since its beginning and may be key actors to improve vaccine coverage among their patients. Purpose: This study aims to asse...
This study aims to assess the determinants of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination hesitancy and refusal (VHR) among teachers, from pre-school to higher education, through an online survey. A logistic regression analysis was used to determine the adjusted odds ratio (OR) of the independent variables (perceptions, knowledge, and attitudes) per 1-point increase in the Likert scale, and VHR. Concern...
Background: Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has become a public-health emergency of international concern. Most efforts to contain the spread and transmission of the virus rely on campaigns and interventions targeted to reduce Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal (VHR). Objective: this study aims to assess the major factors associated with VHR in the older population in Portugal. Methods: a nation-wide cross-sectional stu...
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, social media became an important and easily accessible source of information to keep the population informed. In this study, we explored how Portuguese health entities used social media during the public health emergency caused by COVID-19 disease. Methods: A retrospective study on Portuguese public health entities' communication with the public using social media platf...
In March 2020, the face-to-face presential model of higher education classes was suspended in Portugal due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced all educational institutions to shift to fully online learning solutions. This scenario posed enormous challenges to institutions, teachers, and students to allow the continuity of teaching activities in the period left for the conclusion of the 2nd semester of the ac...
Os media sociais são, para além de uma tecnologia, uma realidade que tem ganho um crescimento e uma dinâmica transdisciplinar difícil de acompanhar em todas as suas áreas de intervenção. Com uma influência clara e crescente em numerosos sectores de desenvolvimento, nomeadamente o setor económico, do qual o turismo faz parte e onde a comunicação e a gestão de informação ágil são, inquestionavelmente, fatores det...
Sendo o turismo um dos setores económicos onde a informação desempenha um papel fundamental, é também um dos mais afetados com a chegada da nova realidade que são os media sociais. Atualmente, devido à utilização generalizada de aplicações da Web 2.0, e sobretudo, devido ao crescimento exponencial da utilização de aplicações de media sociais, verifica-se que esta utilização está a provocar alterações significat...
Social media applications allow potential travelers to collect a wide variety of multimedia information from different sources and use the experiences shared by others to their own advantage tourism wise. Based on this, we may say that the tourism industry has gone from a labor-intensive industry to an information-intensive industry (Buhalis, 2003; Sheldon, 1997; Werthner&Klein, 1999).
A utilização de media sociais é atualmente uma das atividades principais na Internet tendo-se tornado um poderoso e atual meio de comunicação. O turismo como um dos setores económicos onde a informação e a comunicação desempenham um papel fundamental é consequentemente um dos mais influenciados pela emergência dos media sociais. Atualmente, a utilização generalizada de aplicações da web 2.0 e, em especial, o cr...
Tourist information offices, whose mission of spreading information and supporting tourism is becoming more demanding, are under pressure to readjust in order to become structures that provide high quality information. A change from "physical access" to "digital access" is being witnessed that threatens traditional structures for the provision of information. This fact implies that the structures must be (re)fu...