Introduction to Vaccine Attitudes

vaccine attitudes and vaccination uptake facilitators and intention).

This review critically assesses the body of research about Measles-Mumps-and-Rubella (MMR) vaccine attitudes and uptake in the United Kingdom (UK) over the past 10 years.

Two articles on Acceptance include a review of vaccine attitudes in young Asian adults (Wang, p 1142), and a report on the implications of vaccine refusal in the neonatal period for the implementation of infant vaccine schedule (Więckowska, p 1156).

The study results identified the role of universities in increasing the vaccination rate among students, both in terms of education about vaccinations and in shaping pro-vaccine attitudes among students, as well as organizing vaccinations on university campuses to facilitate the process.

Conclusions This study enriches our understanding of public concerns over new vaccines or vaccine development at early stages of the outbreak, bearing implications for influencing vaccine attitudes and guiding public health efforts to cope with infectious disease outbreaks in the future.

The questionnaire collected data on demographic and academic characteristics, health status, vaccine attitudes, and specific reasons regarding the intention to get or not get the COVID-19 vaccination.

However, relatively little is known about the effects of vaccine communication on vaccine attitudes and immunization behavior.

In December 2020, nurses in Hawaii were recruited for an online survey that measured perceived risk/threat of COVID-19, vaccine attitudes, and perceived safety of COVID-19 vaccines, as well as level of intention: primary, secondary (i.

These findings reveal that the constructs contained within the health belief model and theory of planned behavior can be used to predict COVID-19 vaccination intentions, and can be supplemented with an assessment of general vaccine attitudes and attitudes toward the vaccine approval process.

In this paper, we examine the factors contributing to the cross-cultural variation in vaccine attitudes, measured by levels of 1) general vaccine hesitancy, 2) trust in vaccines, and 3) COVID-19 vaccine acceptance.

The survey collected information on demographics, COVID-19 and vaccination history, knowledge levels and sources of COVID-19 vaccine information, and vaccine attitudes.

Introduction Studies of anti-vaccine attitudes in the perinatal time period previously have not paid special attention to the MMR and varicella vaccines.

Many vaccine attitudes differed significantly by political party affiliation and some by gender and news source.

BACKGROUND This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the effectiveness of vaccination decision aids compared with usual care on vaccine uptake, vaccine attitudes, decisional conflict, intent to vaccinate and timeliness.

To understand vaccine attitudes of Latinx parents highly impacted by COVID-19.

The Acceptance section investigates potential association between vaccination and undernutrition in Nigerian children (Sato, p 2630), a vaccine hesitancy scale for use in adults (Akel, p 2639), and vaccine attitudes among university students in Cyprus (Guzoglu, p 2647) and among Swiss parents (Olarewajuo, p 2652).

UK residents were surveyed in October 2019 about their vaccination attitudes, and again in a follow-up survey in April 2020, containing the previous questions and further ones related to COVID-19 exposure and COVID-19 vaccine attitudes.

Participants completed a socio-demographic questionnaire, questions about their intentions of being vaccinated, concerns about the vaccine, a COVID-19 attitudes and beliefs scale, a COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and beliefs scale, and the Domain-Specific Risk-Taking (DOSPERT) Scale.

However, Twitter users were prone to disclose individual vaccination experiences, express anti-vaccine attitudes.

We assessed family communication, vaccine attitudes, perceived norms, outcome expectancies, and vaccination intention.

We describe a study to identify COVID-19 vaccine attitudes, values and intentions immediately preceding authorization of COVID-19 vaccines in the US.

This study examines the prevalence and correlates of vaccine attitudes and behaviors in a diverse cohort of low-income mothers receiving home visiting services.

Future intervention studies should identify specific cultural characteristics related to vaccine attitudes and behaviors to create more targeted cultural adaptations in HPV vaccine promotion.

We investigate whether state impulsivity and vaccine attitudes predict guideline adherence while assessing through which mechanism these predictors affect behaviour.

The study's results clearly demonstrate that only when the risk perception is minimal does vaccination intention improve with improved vaccine attitudes.

Perceived risk of the virus and the disease, and public trust play key roles shaping the vaccine acceptance and confidence on top of the existing pre-COVID 19 vaccine attitudes.

Results: Several factors were significantly associated with vaccine attitudes, including demographics such as gender (p = 0.

It collected data on demographic characteristics, flu vaccine uptake, COVID-19 history, vaccine attitudes, and specific reasons for intending to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or not.

Vaccine attitudes were generally positive, with no differences among study arms.

Although previous studies have demonstrated an association between vaccine attitudes and cognitive biases, often resulting in vaccination hesitancy, the exact contribution of rationality has not been fully clarified.

Survey questions addressed sociodemographic factors, COVID-19 infection fear, protection self-efficacy, and COVID-19 vaccine attitudes.

We further found a decline in general vaccine attitudes and intentions of getting the influenza vaccine.

The study results highlight the importance of a multifactorial approach to assessing vaccine attitudes.

research has found that religious conservatism is positively associated with anti-vaccine attitudes.

Linear regression analyses examined associations between smoking status (current/former/never) and four types of general negative vaccine attitudes: mistrust of vaccine benefit, worries about unforeseen effects, concerns about commercial profiteering, and preference for natural immunity.

Coronavirus conspiracy suspicions and general vaccine attitudes appear uniquely predictive, jointly explaining 35% of variance.

With limited vaccine safety data available, vulnerable populations may have conflicted vaccine attitudes.

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Four research articles on Public Health investigate the impact of outbreak on vaccine attitudes (Talarek, p 805), trends in vaccination inequities in small Chinese children (Hu, p 810), vaccine coverage among pediatric onco-hematological patients (Giordano, p 818), and a reporting tool for vaccine waste reduction in India (Rustagi, p 824).

Conclusions: Vaccine hesitancy among health care providers could have substantial impact on vaccine attitudes of the general population, and such data may help inform vaccine advocacy efforts.

Methods Factors associated with the intention to get vaccinated and with COVID-19 vaccine attitudes were estimated using ordered logistic and multinomial logistic regressions, respectively.

Background The widespread COVID-19 vaccination program, issued by the Israel Government, provides a unique opportunity to examine psychiatric morbidity and vaccine attitudes among individuals who have already been vaccinated.

Employing recent research results covering pervasive misinformation, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and lack of trust in science, and building our argument by drawing on data collected from Horizon Research, KFF, OECD, and RSC, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and behaviors.

As the first to receive the vaccine, COVID-19 vaccine attitudes among front line workers are consequential for COVID-19 control and public opinion of the vaccine.

This review critically assesses the body of research about Measles-Mumps-and-Rubella (MMR) vaccine attitudes and uptake in the United Kingdom (UK) over the past 10 years.

These hesitancy profiles inform public health messaging approaches to effectively reach Twitter users with promise to shift or bolster vaccine attitudes.

The survey evaluated vaccine attitudes, beliefs, intent and acceptance.

Rather than analyzing Blacks as a homogenous group, we examine the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and the extent to which participants are aligned with African American versus White culture (i.

The survey utilized a composite questionnaire incorporating a validated instrument to measure vaccine attitudes.

We sought to assess rural-urban differences in barriers to adolescent vaccination, perceived parental vaccine attitudes, and immunization delivery practices among public health nursing (PHN), pediatric (Peds), and family medicine (FM) clinicians.

Food and Drug Administration COVID-19 vaccine review process, public commentary was solicited offering an opportunity to reflect on vaccine attitudes that may impact the uptake of coronavirus vaccines.

We aimed to develop and validate an instrument that measures trust in public health authorities and to assess the association between trust in public health authorities and vaccine attitudes.

Using mediation analysis, we assess the direct, the indirect (through Vaccine Attitudes) and the total effect of Disgust Sensitivity, Germ Aversion and Perceived Susceptibility on 2016 self-reported flu vaccine uptake.

Few studies have assessed adolescent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine attitudes and whether they are associated with vaccination uptake.

Our objectives were to develop a valid, reliable self-report survey instrument to measure vaccine values based on the Schwartz theory of basic human values, and to test the hypothesis that vaccine values are distinct from vaccine attitudes and are related to vaccine hesitancy and behavior.

The aim of this study was to assess the IMD epidemiology knowledge and 4CMenB vaccine attitudes of healthcare workers (HCWs) with regard to recommending this vaccine for use, vaccine practices and infectious disease control in the Campania region in Italy.

Student vaccine attitudes were assessed by surveys before and after the interviews.

METHODS We developed a vaccine attitudes scale (VAS) composed of 14 Likert items each with 5 responses ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree (sum of scores range 14-70).

Contrary to expectations, there was no sign of amplification of anti-vaccine attitudes by online communication.

This research contributes to understanding how having children affects the vaccine attitudes among vaccine-hesitant and vaccine-refusing parents.

We grouped subjects by documented vaccination status and analyzed demographic variables and vaccine attitudes regarding efficacy, safety, and hesitancy using unadjusted Fisher exact tests.

As such, the pertussis vaccination given during pregnancy presents a unique opportunity to study the interaction between vaccine attitudes and vaccine information-seeking behavior.

We present four articles onAcceptance: a commentary on the level of vaccine education for midwives in Australia (Attwell, p 109), an overview of vaccine attitudes among mothers in Quebec, Canada (Dubé, p 113) and uninsured Latin American immigrant mothers in the US (Painter, p 121), and an analysis of knowledge and attitudes of Turkish healthcare workers to treatment and prevention of bacterial meningitis (Dinleyici, p 134).

Public health communication efforts should consider the potential impact on Facebook users' vaccine attitudes and behaviors.

Vaccinated women (n = 95) were over seven times more likely than were unvaccinated women (n = 115) to report positive vaccine attitudes (relative risk = 7.

RESULTS Multivariate analysis showed that, compared to groups with positive vaccine attitudes, groups with negative attitudes were more informed, engaged and independent health consumers, with greater adherence to complementary medicine, but lower belief in holistic health.

Measures: Outcome measures included baseline and follow-up awareness of HPV, perceived knowledge of HPV and HPV vaccination, measured knowledge score, vaccine attitudes, and doses of HPV vaccine received.

We sought to describe Denver religious leaders’ vaccine attitudes, practices, and congregational experiences using a cross-sectional online survey.

To monitor parental vaccine attitudes, a survey was conducted in 2008 and in 2016.

METHODS MomsTalkShots algorithmically tailored videos based on parent needs to deliver an intervention that was specifically responsive to individual vaccine attitudes, beliefs and intentions, demographics, and source credibility.

• Potentially modifiable HPV vaccine attitudes were strong predictors of intention to vaccinate.