COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Italian university students: insights from history to shape the future

The dataset was used in a cross-sectional study aimed at investigating, among Italian university students, the acceptance and uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine as well as the factors that led to these outcomes. The secondary goal was to pro-vide insight for future interventions by shedding light on the potential barriers to COVID-19 vaccine access.The information is collected through an online questionnaire that is filled in by respondents. The online survey was sent via institutional email. An anonymous and structured questionnaire was used.
The survey questions covered the following topics: socio-demographic characteristics (8 closed-ended with multiple answers and open-ended questions); general information (i.e., personal or family members' history of COVID-19 and the severe side effects they experienced) (5 questions with a “yes/no” response format); general knowledge about vaccines and COVID-19 vaccine (4 questions with a “true/false/do not know” response format); fear and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccine (8 questions with true/false/do not know response format and closed-ended with five-point Likert scale response format); practices related to COVID-19 vaccine (7 items on a five-point Likert scale response format); sources of information and trust in the information received about COVID-19 vaccines (4 items, closed-ended with multiple answers and “yes/no” response format).