Inoculating Against Misleading News Reports About the COVID-19 Vaccine: The Roles of Temporal Frames and Actively Open-Minded Thinking.

IF 3.1 2区医学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Journal of Health Communication Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI:10.1080/10810730.2025.2514842

Stella Juhyun Lee

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Abstract

Misleading news reports about COVID-19 vaccines may hinder acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines. The present study aimed to first assess the impact of these misleading news reports on people's attitudes and intentions toward getting the COVID-19 vaccine. The second goal was to determine whether inoculation messages could confer resistance to these misleading reports. In addition, the roles of temporal frames in inoculation messages and the individual characteristic of actively open-minded thinking were examined. A randomized experiment that exposed South Korean participants to different types of inoculation messages was carried out (N = 500). Viewing only misleading news articles about the COVID-19 vaccine led to negative attitudes and intentions to avoid it. In contrast, exposure to standard inoculation messages significantly reduced negative attitudes and intentions to avoid the vaccine. Temporal frames did not make a difference. However, those with high actively open-minded thinking styles responded more favorably to future-framed inoculation messages.

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预防关于COVID-19疫苗的误导性新闻报道：时间框架和积极开放思维的作用。

关于COVID-19疫苗的误导性新闻报道可能会阻碍COVID-19疫苗的接受。本研究旨在首先评估这些误导性新闻报道对人们对接种COVID-19疫苗的态度和意图的影响。第二个目标是确定接种信息是否可以赋予这些误导性报道的抵抗力。此外，还考察了时间框架在接种信息中的作用和积极开放思维的个体特征。进行了一项随机实验，让韩国参与者接触不同类型的接种信息（N = 500）。只看关于COVID-19疫苗的误导性新闻文章会导致消极态度和避免接种疫苗的意图。相比之下，接触标准接种信息显著减少了避免接种疫苗的消极态度和意图。时间框架没有影响。然而，那些具有高度积极开放思维风格的人对未来框架接种信息的反应更积极。

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Journal of Health Communication Multiple-

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5.60

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives is the leading journal covering the full breadth of a field that focuses on the communication of health information globally. Articles feature research on: • Developments in the field of health communication; • New media, m-health and interactive health communication; • Health Literacy; • Social marketing; • Global Health; • Shared decision making and ethics; • Interpersonal and mass media communication; • Advances in health diplomacy, psychology, government, policy and education; • Government, civil society and multi-stakeholder initiatives; • Public Private partnerships and • Public Health campaigns. Global in scope, the journal seeks to advance a synergistic relationship between research and practical information. With a focus on promoting the health literacy of the individual, caregiver, provider, community, and those in the health policy, the journal presents research, progress in areas of technology and public health, ethics, politics and policy, and the application of health communication principles. The journal is selective with the highest quality social scientific research including qualitative and quantitative studies.