Department of Communication, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, United States.
Vaccine. 2019 May 21;37(23):2993-2997. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.04.063. Epub 2019 Apr 25.
Conspiracies about vaccination are prevalent. We assessed how the health information sources people rely upon and their political ideologies are associated with acceptance of vaccine conspiracies.
Online survey (N = 599) on Amazon's Mechanical Turk crowdsource platform. Hypotheses were tested via structural equation modeling.
Acceptance of vaccine conspiracy beliefs was associated positively with greater reliance on social media for health information (coef. = 0.42, p < .001), inversely related to use of medical websites (coef. = -0.21, p < .001), and not significantly related to use of providers for health information (coef. = -0.13, p = .061). In addition, liberal political orientation was negatively associated with acceptance of vaccine conspiracies (coef. = -0.29, p < .001).
An understanding of vaccine conspiracy acceptance requires a consideration of people's health information sources. The greater susceptibility of political conservatives to conspiracy beliefs extends to the topic of vaccination.
关于疫苗接种的阴谋论很盛行。我们评估了人们依赖的健康信息来源及其政治意识形态与接受疫苗阴谋论之间的关系。
在亚马逊的 Mechanical Turk 众包平台上进行在线调查（N=599）。通过结构方程模型检验假设。
接受疫苗阴谋论信念与更依赖社交媒体获取健康信息呈正相关（系数=0.42，p<0.001），与使用医疗网站呈负相关（系数=-0.21，p<0.001），与使用提供者获取健康信息无显著相关（系数=-0.13，p=0.061）。此外，自由派政治取向与接受疫苗阴谋论呈负相关（系数=-0.29，p<0.001）。
要理解疫苗阴谋论的接受程度，需要考虑人们的健康信息来源。政治保守派更容易接受阴谋论的观点，这一观点也延伸到了疫苗接种这一话题。
