Murphy Jamie, Vallières Frédérique, Bentall Richard P, Shevlin Mark, McBride Orla, Hartman Todd K, McKay Ryan, Bennett Kate, Mason Liam, Gibson-Miller Jilly, Levita Liat, Martinez Anton P, Stocks Thomas V A, Karatzias Thanos, Hyland Philip
School of Psychology, Ulster University, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland.
Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, D02 PN40, Republic of Ireland.
Nat Commun. 2021 Jan 4;12(1):29. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20226-9.
Identifying and understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy within distinct populations may aid future public health messaging. Using nationally representative data from the general adult populations of Ireland (N = 1041) and the United Kingdom (UK; N = 2025), we found that vaccine hesitancy/resistance was evident for 35% and 31% of these populations respectively. Vaccine hesitant/resistant respondents in Ireland and the UK differed on a number of sociodemographic and health-related variables but were similar across a broad array of psychological constructs. In both populations, those resistant to a COVID-19 vaccine were less likely to obtain information about the pandemic from traditional and authoritative sources and had similar levels of mistrust in these sources compared to vaccine accepting respondents. Given the geographical proximity and socio-economic similarity of the populations studied, it is not possible to generalize findings to other populations, however, the methodology employed here may be useful to those wishing to understand COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy elsewhere.
识别和理解不同人群中对新冠疫苗的犹豫态度可能有助于未来的公共卫生宣传。利用来自爱尔兰普通成年人群（N = 1041）和英国（N = 2025）的具有全国代表性的数据，我们发现这些人群中分别有35%和31%明显存在疫苗犹豫/抗拒情况。爱尔兰和英国对疫苗持犹豫/抗拒态度的受访者在一些社会人口统计学和健康相关变量上存在差异，但在一系列广泛的心理结构方面相似。在这两个人群中，与接受疫苗的受访者相比，那些抗拒新冠疫苗的人不太可能从传统和权威来源获取有关疫情的信息，并且对这些来源的不信任程度相似。鉴于所研究人群在地理上接近且社会经济相似，无法将研究结果推广到其他人群，然而，这里采用的方法可能对那些希望了解其他地方新冠疫苗犹豫情况的人有用。
