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The participants included 1564 subjects who joined the vaccination campaign at the COVID-19 Vaccination Center in Salerno, Italy. A survey was conducted in the reference period March\u2013April 2021 using a brief anamnestic questionnaire. In addition, the following standardized scales were used: the State\u2013Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y) and the Short Form Health Survey (SF-12). The results showed that, in terms of the type of vaccine received, the interviewees felt more confident in having received the Comirnaty (Pfizer-BioNTech, 23.5%) and Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca, 18.6%) vaccines\u2014feeling less tense (2.1%; Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) = 3.2%), frightened (1%; Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) = 1.4%), not at all nervous (61.1%; Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca), 43.6%), and not at all\/undecided (67.9%; Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca), 58.6%). Regarding the mood and psychological states considered at the different vaccine administration times, other important differences emerged as the interviewees reported higher levels of tension, nervousness, and fear during the first phase of vaccine administration. Specifically, 40.7% (second dose, 32.7%) felt somewhat tense at the first dose, 26.4% felt frightened (second dose, 21.8%), and 33.8% felt nervous (second dose, 26.8%). The perceived state of health also increased at the end of the vaccination cycle, as, at the second dose, 15.4% of the sample reported an evaluation of \u201cexcellent\u201d (first dose, 12.4%).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/vaccines9060612","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,7]],"date-time":"2021-06-07T22:23:00Z","timestamp":1623104580000},"page":"612","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Perception of Health, Mistrust, Anxiety, and Indecision in a Group of Italians Vaccinated against COVID-19"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7017-7413","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giuseppina","family":"Moccia","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry \u201cScuola Medica Salernitana\u201d, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy"},{"name":"A.U.O. \u201cSan Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d\u2019Aragona\u201d, 84121 Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7265-8504","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luna","family":"Carpinelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry \u201cScuola Medica Salernitana\u201d, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0974-6429","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giulia","family":"Savarese","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry \u201cScuola Medica Salernitana\u201d, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anna","family":"Borrelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"A.U.O. \u201cSan Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d\u2019Aragona\u201d, 84121 Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7757-6855","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giovanni","family":"Boccia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry \u201cScuola Medica Salernitana\u201d, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy"},{"name":"A.U.O. \u201cSan Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d\u2019Aragona\u201d, 84121 Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1088-6741","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Oriana","family":"Motta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry \u201cScuola Medica Salernitana\u201d, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy"},{"name":"A.U.O. \u201cSan Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d\u2019Aragona\u201d, 84121 Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mario","family":"Capunzo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry \u201cScuola Medica Salernitana\u201d, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy"},{"name":"A.U.O. \u201cSan Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d\u2019Aragona\u201d, 84121 Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9659-9940","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francesco","family":"De Caro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry \u201cScuola Medica Salernitana\u201d, University of Salerno, 84081 Baronissi, Italy"},{"name":"A.U.O. \u201cSan Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d\u2019Aragona\u201d, 84121 Salerno, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"473","DOI":"10.1016\/j.vaccine.2020.12.032","article-title":"Preferences for a COVID-19 vaccine in Australia","volume":"39","author":"Borriello","year":"2021","journal-title":"Vaccine"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5013","DOI":"10.1016\/j.vaccine.2016.08.029","article-title":"Vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers in Europe: A qualitative study","volume":"34","author":"Karafillakis","year":"2016","journal-title":"Vaccine"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6500","DOI":"10.1016\/j.vaccine.2020.08.043","article-title":"Acceptability of a COVID-19 vaccine among adults in the United States: How many people would get vaccinated?","volume":"38","author":"Reiter","year":"2020","journal-title":"Vaccine"},{"key":"ref_4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Manning, M.L., Gerolamo, A.M., Marino, M.A., Hanson-Zalot, M.E., and Pogorzelska-Maziarz, M. 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