Vaccination coverage for COVID-19 is high in both people with and without mental illness, according to a large multinational study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and published in Nature Communications.
Karolinska InstitutetSep 26 2024 However, Swedish registry data revealed that individuals with unmedicated mental illness have lower vaccination levels.
The pooled analysis from the COVIDMENT cohort showed that 85 per cent of individuals were vaccinated with the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine . There was no statistically significant difference in vaccination levels in people with or without a mental illness diagnosis, or with or without anxiety or depressive symptoms.
Mary Barker, lead author, postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
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