Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA.
Department of Psychology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI 49401, USA.
J Public Health (Oxf). 2022 Aug 25;44(3):713-715. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdab013.
It is imperative to understand the predictors of vaccine hesitancy for current and future pandemics.
A representative sample (age, race & gender) of 1054 US adults was collected in October 2020 to examine the predictors of vaccine hesitancy. Participants were asked several questions including their intention to receive a vaccine for the novel coronavirus.
Predictors significantly associated with a greater intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine included greater perceived feelings of vulnerability to COVID-19, having received a flu vaccination at the time the question was asked, more liberal political orientation, non-Black race, male gender, and a lower naturalness bias.
Vaccines are essential for mitigating current and future pandemics. Multiple strategies are important in encouraging people to be vaccinated and the predictors highlighted here and elsewhere are likely to be useful targets.
了解当前和未来大流行中疫苗犹豫的预测因素至关重要。
2020 年 10 月,收集了 1054 名美国成年人的代表性样本(年龄、种族和性别),以研究疫苗犹豫的预测因素。参与者被问到几个问题,包括他们是否打算接种新型冠状病毒疫苗。
与更大的接种 COVID-19 疫苗意愿显著相关的预测因素包括,对 COVID-19 的脆弱感更强、在被问到这个问题时已经接种了流感疫苗、政治立场更自由、非黑人种族、男性性别,以及较低的自然性偏见。
疫苗对于缓解当前和未来的大流行至关重要。在鼓励人们接种疫苗方面,多种策略都很重要,这里和其他地方强调的预测因素可能是有用的目标。