1. ANNA-MARIA MONCIATTI ♀
Information acquired: 2025
ANNA-MARIA MONCIATTI is an academic who published a paper in 2022 entitled Italian version of the Vaccination Fear Scale (VFS-6): internal and external validation. ANNA-MARIA MONCIATTI published this work as part of a team: Duradoni, Mirko. Here is a description of this work: Background: COVID-19 is one of the biggest threats in our current society in terms of mental and public health. Vaccination represents the most cost-efficient way to avoid disease, mental health negative outcomes, and an overload of the healthcare system, however, many people expressed fears and concerns related to COVID-19 vaccines. This paper presents the Italian validation of the Vaccination Fear Scale (VFS-6) originally developed in Spanish to complement clinical efforts in the prevention of vaccine hesitancy. Methods: The sample was composed of 1111 Italian participants (14.2% not vaccinated) recruited by means of on-line anonymous voluntary census. The items of the VFS-6 were firstly adapted to the Italian language by means of a translation and back-translation standard procedure, and subsequently administered together.
