The French public's attitudes to a future COVID-19 vaccine: The politicization of a public health issue

JK Ward, C Alleaume, P Peretti-Watel, V Seror… - Social science & …, 2020 - Elsevier
As Covid-19 spreads across the world, governments turn a hopeful eye towards research
and development of a vaccine against this new disease. But it is one thing to make a vaccine …

A future vaccination campaign against COVID-19 at risk of vaccine hesitancy and politicisation

P Peretti-Watel, V Seror, S Cortaredona… - The Lancet infectious …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Just a few weeks ago, more than half of the world's population was on lockdown to limit the
spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Scientists are …

[HTML][HTML] Use of the internet as a health information resource among French young adults: results from a nationally representative survey

F Beck, JB Richard, V Nguyen-Thanh… - Journal of medical …, 2014 - jmir.org
Background The Internet is one of the main resources of health information especially for
young adults, but website content is not always trustworthy or validated. Little is known about …

Validation of the CAST, a general population Cannabis Abuse Screening Test

S Legleye, L Karila, F Beck, M Reynaud - Journal of substance use, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Although the use of cannabis among young people has become a major public
health concern, there is no such test in France for general population surveys. Objective …

[HTML][HTML] Total sleep time severely drops during adolescence

D Leger, F Beck, JB Richard, E Godeau - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Restricted sleep duration among young adults and adolescents has been shown to increase
the risk of morbidities such as obesity, diabetes or accidents. However there are few …

[HTML][HTML] Anxiety, depression and sleep problems: a second wave of COVID-19

P Peretti-Watel, C Alleaume, D Léger, F Beck… - General …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dear Editor, During the early spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019)
pandemic spread across the globe like a viral tsunami, many countries urgently …

Social gradient in initiation and transition to daily use of tobacco and cannabis during adolescence: a retrospective cohort study

S Legleye, E Janssen, F Beck, N Chau, M Khlat - Addiction, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Aims This study explores whether the family socio‐economic status (F‐SES) and school
situation could have an impact on tobacco and cannabis initiation and transition to daily use …

Attitudes toward vaccination and the H1N1 vaccine: poor people's unfounded fears or legitimate concerns of the elite?

P Peretti-Watel, J Raude, L Sagaon-Teyssier… - Social Science & …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2009–2010, the H1N1 episode occurred in a general context of decreasing
public confidence in vaccination. We assumed opposition to vaccination in general to be an …

Short sleep in young adults: Insomnia or sleep debt? Prevalence and clinical description of short sleep in a representative sample of 1004 young adults from France

D Léger, E Du Roscoat, V Bayon, R Guignard… - Sleep medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Increasing evidence suggests an association between short sleep with
adverse health outcomes: obesity, type 2 diabetes and hypertension. But there are few or no …

Smoking too few cigarettes to be at risk? Smokers' perceptions of risk and risk denial, a French survey

P Peretti-Watel, J Constance, P Guilbert… - Tobacco …, 2007 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
Background: Past studies on smokers' risk perception have produced mixed results. We
endorsed a new approach to assess smokers' perceptions of risk by asking them to estimate …