Psychosocial Predictors of Intention to Vaccinate Against the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

IF 2 4区 医学 Q3 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Ho Phi Huynh, Ágnes Zsila, Lisset Martinez-Berman
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the world. Public health efforts to combat the disease and return life to normalcy largely rests upon COVID-19 vaccination distribution and uptake. Thus, it is critical to examine factors that predict people's intentions to vaccinate. This study explored predictors of intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 among demographic and personal factors, health behaviors and beliefs, COVID-19-specific beliefs, and trust in physicians, using a sample of U.S. adults. We employed bivariate correlations and hierarchical regression to analyze the data. We found that the strongest predictors are political orientation, trust in physicians, subjective norms, and prior flu shot uptake. These associations suggest that individuals who held more liberal political views, expressed higher levels of trust in their primary care provider, perceived stronger social pressure to vaccinate against COVID-19, and received a flu shot during the previous flu season, had a stronger intention to vaccinate against COVID-19. Based on our results, we suggest that public health efforts to increase vaccination uptake for COVID-19 vaccines focus on addressing political orientation (conservatism), involve primary care providers, emphasize vaccination as the norm (and not the exception), and use information about previous flu vaccinations to target vaccination campaigns.

冠状病毒(COVID-19)疫苗接种意向的社会心理预测因素
新冠肺炎疫情在全球范围内造成严重破坏。抗击该疾病和恢复正常生活的公共卫生工作在很大程度上取决于COVID-19疫苗的分发和吸收。因此,检查预测人们接种疫苗意图的因素是至关重要的。本研究以美国成年人为样本,探讨了人口统计学和个人因素、健康行为和信念、COVID-19特定信念以及对医生的信任等因素对COVID-19疫苗接种意向的预测因素。我们采用双变量相关和层次回归分析数据。我们发现最强的预测因子是政治倾向、对医生的信任、主观规范和先前的流感疫苗接种。这些关联表明,持有更自由的政治观点、对初级保健提供者表达更高程度的信任、认为接种COVID-19疫苗的社会压力更大、并在上一个流感季节接种过流感疫苗的个人,接种COVID-19疫苗的意愿更强。根据我们的研究结果,我们建议,提高COVID-19疫苗接种率的公共卫生工作应侧重于解决政治倾向(保守主义),让初级保健提供者参与进来,强调疫苗接种是常态(而不是例外),并利用以前接种流感疫苗的信息来开展有针对性的疫苗接种活动。
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来源期刊
Behavioral Medicine
Behavioral Medicine 医学-行为科学
CiteScore
5.30
自引率
4.30%
发文量
44
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Behavioral Medicine is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, which fosters and promotes the exchange of knowledge and the advancement of theory in the field of behavioral medicine, including but not limited to understandings of disease prevention, health promotion, health disparities, identification of health risk factors, and interventions designed to reduce health risks, ameliorate health disparities, enhancing all aspects of health. The journal seeks to advance knowledge and theory in these domains in all segments of the population and across the lifespan, in local, national, and global contexts, and with an emphasis on the synergies that exist between biological, psychological, psychosocial, and structural factors as they related to these areas of study and across health states. Behavioral Medicine publishes original empirical studies (experimental and observational research studies, quantitative and qualitative studies, evaluation studies) as well as clinical/case studies. The journal also publishes review articles, which provide systematic evaluations of the literature and propose alternative and innovative theoretical paradigms, as well as brief reports and responses to articles previously published in Behavioral Medicine.
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