Eurofound (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, D18 KP65, Ireland).
Eurofound (European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Wyattville Road, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, D18 KP65, Ireland).
Vaccine. 2022 Mar 25;40(14):2215-2225. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.02.059. Epub 2022 Mar 3.
Vaccine hesitancy can hinder the successful roll-out of vaccines. This paper examines COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the European Union, drawing from a large-scale cross-national survey covering all 27 EU Member States, carried out between February and March 2021 (n = 29,755). We study the determinants of vaccine hesitancy, focusing on the role of social media use. In multivariate regression models, we find statistically significant (p < 0.05) impacts on vaccine hesitancy of heavy use of social media and using social media as a main source of news. However, the effect of social media and the drivers of vaccine hesitancy vary depending on the reason for hesitancy. Most notably, hesitancy due to health concerns is mainly driven by physical health status and less by social media use, while views that COVID-19 risks are exaggerated (or that COVID-19 does not exist) are more common among men, people in good health, and those using social media as their main source of news.
疫苗犹豫可能会阻碍疫苗的成功推出。本文通过对 2021 年 2 月至 3 月期间在欧盟所有 27 个成员国进行的一项涵盖所有成员国的大规模跨国调查（n=29755），研究了欧盟对 COVID-19 疫苗的犹豫态度。我们研究了疫苗犹豫的决定因素，重点关注社交媒体使用的作用。在多元回归模型中，我们发现社交媒体的大量使用和将社交媒体用作主要新闻来源对疫苗犹豫具有统计学意义上的显著影响（p<0.05）。然而，社交媒体的影响和疫苗犹豫的驱动因素因犹豫的原因而异。值得注意的是，由于健康问题而犹豫不决主要是由身体健康状况驱动的，而较少受到社交媒体使用的影响，而认为 COVID-19 风险被夸大（或 COVID-19 并不存在）的观点则在身体健康状况良好的男性、男性和使用社交媒体作为主要新闻来源的人群中更为普遍。
