JUN 3, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in university students: Methodological insights from a syndemic perspective.
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
This is a methodological critique of another study, not a primary empirical investigation; it identifies significant limitations (recall bias, cross-sectional design, 11% response rate, dichotomization) that preclude strong causal or mechanistic claims about vaccine hesitancy syndemics in the original work.
Reported
Sample size (original study)4453
Response rateapproximately 11%
Unvaccinated subset excludedabout 2%