Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Blusson Hall, Room 11810, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
BMC Public Health. 2024 Jul 6;24(1):1806. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-18873-4.
Throughout history, vaccines have proven effective in addressing and preventing widespread outbreaks, leading to a decrease in the spread and fatality rates of infectious diseases. In a time where vaccine hesitancy poses a significant challenge to public health, it is important to identify the intricate interplay of factors exemplified at the individual and societal levels which influence vaccination behaviours. Through this analysis, we aim to shed new light on the dynamics of vaccine hesitancy among religious groups, contributing to the broader effort to promote vaccine uptake, dispel misunderstandings, and encourage constructive dialogue with these groups.
We used the PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews) using the 20-point checklist to guide this review. The inclusion criteria for our study were that the literature should be in English, concerned with vaccine hesitancy as the focus of study, study the impact religiosity or religious beliefs as either an outcome or control variable, concerning population levels, and be peer-reviewed.
We analysed 14 peer-reviewed articles that included components related to religiosity or religious beliefs and their impact on vaccine hesitancy published until September 2023. All the articles were published in approximately the last decade between 2012 and 2023, with only 4 of the articles published before 2020. Out of the 14 studies included in our review, twelve utilized quantitative methods, while the remaining two employed qualitative approaches. Among the studies included in our analysis, we found various approaches to categorizing religious belief and identity. In most studies when religion is uniformly regarded as the sole determinant of vaccine hesitancy, it consistently emerges as a significant factor in contributing to vaccine hesitancy. All studies in our review reported sociodemographic factors to some degree related to vaccine hesitancy within their sample populations. Our analysis underscored the need for nuanced approaches to addressing vaccine hesitancy among religious groups.
Vaccine hesitancy is a complex issue and driven by a myriad of individual and societal factors among which religious beliefs is commonly associated to be a driver of higher levels among populations.
纵观历史，疫苗在应对和预防广泛爆发方面已被证明是有效的，从而降低了传染病的传播和死亡率。在疫苗犹豫对公共卫生构成重大挑战的时代，重要的是要确定在个人和社会层面上影响疫苗接种行为的复杂因素相互作用。通过这项分析，我们旨在揭示宗教群体中疫苗犹豫的动态，为更广泛地促进疫苗接种、消除误解以及鼓励与这些群体进行建设性对话做出贡献。
我们使用 PRISMA-ScR（系统评价和荟萃分析扩展的首选报告项目，用于范围综述）使用 20 点清单来指导本次综述。我们研究的纳入标准是文献必须是英文的，关注疫苗犹豫作为研究重点，研究宗教信仰或宗教信仰作为结果或控制变量的影响，关注人群水平，并经过同行评审。
我们分析了 14 篇经过同行评审的文章，这些文章包括与宗教信仰或宗教信仰及其对疫苗犹豫的影响相关的内容，这些文章发表于 2023 年 9 月之前。所有文章都发表在过去十年左右，即 2012 年至 2023 年之间，只有 4 篇文章发表于 2020 年之前。在我们的综述中包括的 14 项研究中，有 12 项使用了定量方法，而其余两项则采用了定性方法。在我们分析的研究中，我们发现了各种方法来对宗教信仰和身份进行分类。在大多数研究中，当宗教被普遍视为疫苗犹豫的唯一决定因素时，它始终是导致疫苗犹豫的一个重要因素。我们综述中的所有研究都在某种程度上报告了与样本人群中疫苗犹豫相关的社会人口因素。我们的分析强调了在宗教群体中解决疫苗犹豫问题需要采取细致入微的方法。
疫苗犹豫是一个复杂的问题，受到个人和社会层面上众多因素的驱动，其中宗教信仰通常被认为是人群中更高水平疫苗犹豫的驱动因素之一。
