Marie Cederschiöld University, Centre for Civil Society Research, Sweden.
Scand J Public Health. 2023 Jul;51(5):704-710. doi: 10.1177/14034948221145780. Epub 2023 Jan 6.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination as an important and engaging topic once again entered the public debate in many countries, including Sweden. In particular, the varying degree to which different social groups tend to choose to get vaccinated was raised as a point of discussion on the agenda. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of various forms of trust, especially community trust, in the explanation of vaccine coverage in the Swedish COVID-19 immunisation programme.
In this study, individual survey data from the Swedish Trust Barometer were aggregated and combined with socio-demographic register-based data at Regional Statistical Areas (RegSO) to examine the relationship between trust and vaccine coverage at the local community level.
The results showed that both generalised and institutional trust seemed to be essential when it comes to explaining vaccination coverage. In addition, we showed that community trust, that is, trust in neighbours and people living in the neighbourhood, was an even stronger factor when it comes to explaining vaccination coverage at the local level.
This article contributes to the literature on trust in relation to health care by identifying a new dimension of trust with significance to immunisation that is worthy of future scholarly attention.
在 COVID-19 大流行期间，接种疫苗作为一个重要且引人关注的话题，再次在包括瑞典在内的许多国家进入公众讨论。特别是，不同社会群体在多大程度上倾向于选择接种疫苗，成为议程上的一个讨论点。因此，本研究旨在探讨各种形式的信任，特别是社区信任，在解释瑞典 COVID-19 免疫计划中疫苗接种率方面的作用。
在这项研究中，将瑞典信任晴雨表的个人调查数据进行汇总，并与地区统计区域（RegSO）的社会人口登记数据相结合，以检验信任与社区层面疫苗接种率之间的关系。
结果表明，当涉及解释疫苗接种率时，普遍信任和制度信任似乎都是必不可少的。此外，我们还表明，社区信任，即对邻居和居住在附近的人的信任，是解释当地疫苗接种率的一个更强有力的因素。
本文通过确定与医疗保健相关的信任的一个新维度，为信任与健康相关的文献做出了贡献，这是一个值得未来学者关注的维度。
