Chen Jen-Hao, Shiu Cheng-Shi
Department of Sociology and Department of Psychology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.
Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
SSM Popul Health. 2022 Jun;18:101073. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101073. Epub 2022 Mar 17.
Racial gaps in vaccine uptake in the United States have been widely reported. Existing studies, however, have not explored how individuals' concerns about COVID-19 vaccines are clustered. In this study, racial and ethnic background is linked to constellations of COVID-19 vaccine concerns during the early phase of vaccines in the United States, using the Household Pulse Survey (N = 60,492). Latent class analysis reveals five distinct classes of vaccine concerns: general skepticism, distrust of science and the government, safety, a desire to wait and see, and vague uncertainty. Compared to Whites, people of color more consistently report vaccine hesitancy due to safety and a desire to wait and see, rather than distrust of science and the government. Whites, however, more consistently report general skepticism and distrust of science and the government. Our findings suggest that distrust of science and government is not central to racial minorities' vaccine hesitancy, but it is so for Whites.
美国疫苗接种率方面的种族差距已被广泛报道。然而，现有研究尚未探讨个人对新冠疫苗的担忧是如何聚类的。在本研究中，利用家庭脉搏调查（样本量N = 60492），将种族和族裔背景与美国疫苗早期阶段对新冠疫苗的一系列担忧联系起来。潜在类别分析揭示了五类不同的疫苗担忧：普遍怀疑、对科学和政府的不信任、安全性、观望意愿以及模糊的不确定性。与白人相比，有色人种更一致地报告称，由于安全性和观望意愿而对疫苗犹豫不决，而非对科学和政府的不信任。然而，白人更一致地报告普遍怀疑以及对科学和政府的不信任。我们的研究结果表明，对科学和政府的不信任并非少数族裔疫苗犹豫的核心原因，但对白人来说却是如此。
