Benefit of COVID-19 vaccination accounting for potential risk compensation [PDF]
npj Vaccines, 2021 People receiving COVID-19 vaccines may subsequently markedly increase their previously suppressed exposure risk. A simple model can evaluate the benefit of vaccination to the vaccinated (index) person and others exposed to that person; and calculate the ...
John P. A. Ioannidis
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Risk Compensation and COVID-19 Vaccines. [PDF]
Ann Intern Med, 2021 The authors of this commentary discuss the “Peltzman Effect,” a phenomenon in which individuals respond to safety measures with a compensatory increase in risky behavior, and how it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic through “pandemic fatigue” and ...
Trogen B, Caplan A.
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Healthcare providers’ beliefs and attitudes regarding risk compensation following HPV vaccination [PDF]
Papillomavirus Research, 2016 Background: Provider recommendation is a significant predictor of HPV vaccine uptake. Prior research suggests that concerns regarding risk compensation could cause some providers to hesitate recommending the HPV vaccine.
Monica L. Kasting +5 more
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Face mask mandates and risk compensation: an analysis of mobility data during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2022 Introduction Concerns have been raised about the potential for risk compensation in the context of mask mandates for mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
Wadud Z, Rahman SM, Enam A.
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Risk compensation and face mask mandates during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Face masks are an important component in controlling COVID-19, and policy orders to wear masks are common. However, behavioral responses are seldom additive, and exchanging one protective behavior for another could undermine the COVID-19 policy response.
Yan Y, Bayham J, Richter A, Fenichel EP.
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Association between health behaviours and the COVID-19 vaccination: risk compensation among healthcare workers in Taizhou, China. [PDF]
Hum Vaccin Immunother, 2022 This study is conducted to explore the association between health behaviors and the COVID-19 vaccination based on the risk compensation concept among health-care workers in Taizhou, China.
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The Potential Risk Compensation after Receiving HPV Vaccination among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Southwest China: A HAPA-Based Analysis [PDF]
Vaccines, 2023 Background: men who have sex with men (MSM) are a high-risk group for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, and the HPV vaccine is effective in preventing it. However, according to risk compensation theory, people may increase sexual risk behaviors after
Zhen Cao +5 more
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Do the vaccinated perform less distancing, mask wearing and hand hygiene? A test of the risk compensation hypothesis in a representative sample during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]
Vaccine, 2023 The “risk compensation hypothesis” holds that vaccinated individuals may be less motivated to protect themselves using other COVID-19 mitigation behaviors—e.g., masking, distancing and hand hygiene—given that they may perceive their infection risk to be ...
Hall PA +5 more
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Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical effectiveness, safety, adherence and risk compensation in all populations. [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2022 Objective To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of the effectiveness and safety of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV.
O Murchu E +7 more
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Questioning risk compensation: pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and sexually transmitted infections among men who have sex with men, capital region of Denmark, 2019 to 2022. [PDF]
Euro SurveillBackground Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) effectively prevents HIV, but its association with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has raised concerns about risk compensation, potentially impacting the expansion of PrEP programmes.
von Schreeb S +12 more
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