Percepção de acadêmicos de medicina do primeiro ao sexto ano e de professores médicos a respeito da vacinação em uma escola de medicina

Abstract

Vaccines are an essential tool for health and physicians must guide patients about the importance of immunization. Therefore this research aims to analyze the perception of medical students from the first to the sixth year as well as medical professors about vaccination at a private medical school - UniCesumar- in Maringá, Paraná. For this, a questionnaire related to general aspects of vaccination, national immunization program (PNI), ethical/legal issues on vaccine refusal, and adherence to the vaccine against SARS-COV-2 has taken place with 209 respondents who participated in this research, of which 12 are professors and 197 are academics. For data analysis were used the Fisher's exact test and the Kruskall-Wallis test. As a result, all respondents agreed that the number of vaccines administered in the first year of life is not excessive. However, the researchers observed a considerable lack of knowledge about the penalty for those responsible for denying vaccinating their. In addition, the data showed that both academics and physicians don't know the government's duty to compensate patients who had severe adverse post-vaccination effects. Likewise, the respondents didn't know which judicial bodies appeal in this situation. Also, most of respondents said they will get vaccinated against COVID-19 and believe the vaccine is safe. In conclusion, the knowledge about immunization is growing proportionally to the year of training in which the student is, besides there is a lack of awareness from both academics and physicians about the legislation involving the obligation of childhood vaccination and legal management of adverse effects after immunization (EAPV).