COVID-19 vaccine development should have been the “light at the end of the tunnel.”
However, antivaccinations attitudes and hesitation are common,
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even among older adults. Such hesitancy has been positively associated with depression,
potentially due to concerns about vaccine side-effects.
2
We tested the association between depression and vaccine side-effects in older adults,
and hypothesized that, like physical illness,
3
depression should increase with each additional side-effect.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 30, 2021
Accepted:
September 22,
2021
Received in revised form:
September 12,
2021
Received:
June 24,
2021
Footnotes
This research was supported by an internal grant awarded to MB by his university.
The data have not been previously presented orally or by poster at scientific meetings.
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© 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.
