Department of Science and Humanities, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University, Dhaka (Old Airport), Bangladesh.
Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
J Infect Dev Ctries. 2021 Oct 31;15(10):1388-1395. doi: 10.3855/jidc.15029.
Immunization, as a process of fighting against the COVID-19, has gained important research appeal, but very limited endeavor has been paid for vaccine behavioral studies in underdeveloped and developing countries. This study explores the vaccine demand, hesitancy, and nationalism as well as vaccine acceptance and domestic vaccine preference among young adults in Bangladesh.
This quantitative study followed the snowball sampling technique and collected responses from 1,018 individuals from various social media platforms. The analysis covered both descriptive and inferential statistics including chi-square, F-statistic, and logistic regression.
The findings of the fully-adjusted regression model suggest that the individuals who had more vaccine demand were 3.29 times (95% confidence interval = 2.39-4.54; p < 0.001) higher to accept vaccine compared to those who had no vaccine demand. Conversely, vaccine hesitancy was negatively associated with vaccine acceptance. Here, the odds ratio was found 0.70 (95% confidence interval = 0.62-0.80; p < 0.001), which means that those who had higher vaccine hesitancy were about 30% less likely to accept vaccines than those who had no hesitancy. In addition, the persons who had vaccine nationalism were 1.75 times (95% confidence interval = 1.62-1.88; p < 0.001) more prone to prefer domestic vaccine.
This study suggests that policymakers may take initiatives for making people aware and knowledgeable about the severity and vulnerability to specific health threats. In this concern, perception and efficacy-increasing programs may take part in increasing protection motivation behaviors like vaccine acceptance and (domestic) vaccine preference.
免疫接种作为对抗 COVID-19 的一种手段，引起了重要的研究关注，但在欠发达国家和发展中国家，疫苗行为研究的努力非常有限。本研究探讨了孟加拉国年轻成年人对疫苗的需求、犹豫、民族主义以及对疫苗的接受程度和国内疫苗偏好。
这项定量研究采用了滚雪球抽样技术，从各种社交媒体平台上收集了 1018 人的回复。分析包括描述性和推断性统计，包括卡方检验、F 统计量和逻辑回归。
完全调整后的回归模型的结果表明，与没有疫苗需求的人相比，对疫苗有更高需求的人接受疫苗的可能性高 3.29 倍（95%置信区间=2.39-4.54；p<0.001）。相反，疫苗犹豫与疫苗接受呈负相关。在这里，发现比值比为 0.70（95%置信区间=0.62-0.80；p<0.001），这意味着那些疫苗犹豫程度较高的人接受疫苗的可能性比那些没有犹豫的人低约 30%。此外，那些具有疫苗民族主义的人更倾向于选择国内疫苗，其可能性是没有疫苗民族主义的人的 1.75 倍（95%置信区间=1.62-1.88；p<0.001）。
本研究表明，政策制定者可以采取措施，让人们了解和了解特定健康威胁的严重性和脆弱性。在这方面，提高认识和效力的计划可能会参与提高保护动机行为，如对疫苗的接受程度和（国内）疫苗偏好。
