Yoda Takeshi, Suksatit Benjamas, Tokuda Masaaki, Katsuyama Hironobu
Department of Public Health, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki 701-0192, Japan.
Department of Health and Sports Science, Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Kurashiki 701-0193, Japan.
Vaccines (Basel). 2022 Jun 29;10(7):1041. doi: 10.3390/vaccines10071041.
Despite considerable interest in the Japanese population in receiving the vaccine for COVID-19 when it first became available, a sizable percentage of people remain unwilling or hesitant to be vaccinated. Concerns among both the vaccinated and the unwilling center on the vaccine's efficacy and its safety. Thus, this study aimed to identify whether the willingness to receive COVID-19 vaccination is related to the sources of information people use to learn about the vaccine. A cross-sectional study was conducted on 800 participants registered in an Internet research panel across Japan who completed a questionnaire on their sources of information about the vaccine, demographics, and vaccination status. Vaccine willingness/hesitancy and refusal were set as dependent variables in the logistic regression analysis, with sources of vaccine information and other socio-demographic variables set as independent variables. The results of the analysis found that the information sources significantly associated with willingness to vaccinate were TV (AOR 2.44 vs. vaccine refusal/hesitation), summary websites of COVID-19 by non-experts (AOR 0.21, vs. vaccine refusal/hesitation), Internet video sites (AOR 0.33, vs. vaccine refusal/hesitation), and the personal websites of doctors (AOR 0.16, vs. vaccine refusal/hesitation). Given the likelihood of misinformation in non-traditional sources of information, it is important that health communications be accurate and persuasive.
尽管在新冠疫苗首次可供接种时，日本民众对其表现出了相当大的兴趣，但仍有相当一部分人不愿意或对接种疫苗犹豫不决。已接种者和未接种者都担心疫苗的有效性和安全性。因此，本研究旨在确定人们接种新冠疫苗的意愿是否与他们了解疫苗的信息来源有关。对日本互联网研究小组登记的800名参与者进行了一项横断面研究，他们完成了一份关于疫苗信息来源、人口统计学和疫苗接种状况的问卷。在逻辑回归分析中，将疫苗接种意愿/犹豫和拒绝作为因变量，将疫苗信息来源和其他社会人口学变量作为自变量。分析结果发现，与接种意愿显著相关的信息来源是电视（调整后比值比为2.44，与拒绝/犹豫接种疫苗相比）、非专家的新冠疫情汇总网站（调整后比值比为0.21，与拒绝/犹豫接种疫苗相比）、互联网视频网站（调整后比值比为0.33，与拒绝/犹豫接种疫苗相比）以及医生个人网站（调整后比值比为0.16，与拒绝/犹豫接种疫苗相比）。鉴于非传统信息来源中存在错误信息的可能性，健康传播准确且有说服力很重要。
