Awareness, Knowledge, and Vaccination Status of Meningococcal Meningitis Vaccination: A Comparative Study on International and Korean University Students
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Abstract
Background: Meningococcal meningitis is a disease that can cause severe and possibly fatal side effects. To prevent the spread of meningococcal meningitis, which is a highly transmissible disease, 16 states in the USA mandate entering college students to receive meningococcal vaccination. Nevertheless, South Korea does not. This study aims to point out the importance of meningococcal vaccination by comparing the level of general knowledge and recognition of the requirement for vaccination among university students in the USA/Canada and Korea.Methods: The study was conducted using a self-filled questionnaire survey targeting international and Korean students at one of Korea's universities. The survey focused on topics such as knowledge of infectious diseases that can occur at the dormitory residence, infectious agents and routes of meningococcal meningitis infection and infection route, and students' intention to receive meningococcal vaccination.Results: International university students had a higher awareness of the importance of infectious disease prevention than Korean students (P<0.05) and also had higher meningococcal-related knowledge (P<0.05).International universities strongly recommend meningococcal vaccination compared to Korean universities (P<0.05), and the actual vaccination rate was higher than that of domestic university students (P<0.05).Conclusions: This study found that the awareness of meningococcal vaccination among Korean university students was lower than that of international university students, and the vaccination rate was also lower. Because students often do not get vaccinated due to low awareness of the meningococcal disease, health education programs can increase their knowledge about infectious diseases and awareness of vaccines. Thus, increasing the vaccination rate.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".