Factors Affecting Vaccine Attitudes Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic

Altman, Jessica D.; Miner, Dashiell S.; Lee, Abigail A.; Asay, Aaron E.; Nielson, Bryce U.; Rose, Agnes M.; Hinton, Kaitlyn; Poole, Brian

doi:10.3390/vaccines11030516

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“…By contrast, the current study found that adolescents’ unwillingness to be vaccinated influenced vaccination decisions even if parents were willing, but this was only in a minority of cases. The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced vaccine attitudes [ 24 ], which may explain some differences in our findings compared with findings from earlier studies.…”

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From Qualitative Research to Quantitative Preference Elicitation: An Example in Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Coulter,

Whichello,

Heidenreich

et al. 2024

Patient

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Background Qualitative research is fundamental for designing discrete choice experiments (DCEs) but is often underreported in the preference literature. We developed a DCE to elicit preferences for vaccination against invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) among adolescents and young people (AYP) and parents and legal guardians (PLG) in the United States. This article reports the targeted literature review and qualitative interviews that informed the DCE design and demonstrates how to apply the recent reporting guidelines for qualitative developmental work in preference studies. Methods This study included two parts: a targeted literature review and qualitative interviews. The Medline and Embase databases were searched for quantitative and qualitative studies on IMD and immunization. The results of the targeted literature review informed a qualitative interview guide. Sixty-minute, online, semi-structured interviews with AYP and PLG were used to identify themes related to willingness to be vaccinated against IMD. Participants were recruited through a third-party recruiter’s database and commercial online panels. Interviews included vignettes about IMD and vaccinations and three thresholding exercises examining the effect of incidence rate, disability rate, and fatality rate on vaccination preferences. Participant responses related to the themes were counted. Results The targeted literature review identified 31 concepts that were synthesized into six topics for the qualitative interviews. Twenty AYP aged 16–23 years and 20 PLG of adolescents aged 11–17 years were interviewed. Four themes related to willingness to be vaccinated emerged: attitudes towards vaccination, knowledge and information, perception of IMD, and vaccine attributes. Most participants were concerned about IMD (AYP 60%; PLG 85%) and had positive views of vaccination (AYP 80%; PLG 60%). Ninety percent of AYP and 75% of PLG always chose vaccination over no vaccination, independent of IMD incidence rate, disability rate, or fatality rate. Conclusion Willingness to be vaccinated against IMD was affected by vaccine attributes but largely insensitive to IMD incidence and severity. This article provides an example of how to apply the recent reporting guidelines for qualitative developmental work in preference studies, with 21 out of 22 items in the guidelines being considered. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40271-024-00677-8.

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From Qualitative Research to Quantitative Preference Elicitation: An Example in Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Coulter,

Whichello,

Heidenreich

et al. 2024

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“…Wales public data reported 2022–23 1 st dose in 1 st year uptake of 12.3% in Wales (all genders) increasing to 69.1% in year 2 of school (72.8% in girls and 65.6% in boys) [ 18 ]. This pattern aligns to the sharp declines observed in immunisation rates globally since the COVID-19 pandemic [ 19 ].…”

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“…This decline in HPV vaccination uptake may be due to multiple complex factors [ 20 ]. At the beginning of the pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) advised postponement of immunisation programmes to enable IMNs to focus on administration of COVID-19 vaccines [ 19 ]. This has created a backlog of immunisations placing additional workload pressures on IMN teams [ 21 ].…”

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Applying the COM-B behaviour model to understand factors which impact 15–16 year old students’ ability to protect themselves against acquirement of Human Papilloma virus (HPV) in Northern Ireland, UK

Flood,

Hughes,

Wilson

et al. 2024

PLOS Glob Public Health

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High-risk strains of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) can lead to the development of a number of cancers including cervical, vulvar, penile, anal and oropharyngeal. HPV vaccination programmes offer the HPV vaccine to males and females 12–13 years old in schools throughout the UK. However, knowledge of HPV remains low in post-primary schools. The aim of this study is to capture 15–16 year old students’ perceptions regarding the current provision of HPV education, and whether providing HPV education to 15–16 year olds could influence their intention to be vaccinated and/or future sexual health decisions related to HPV. Between 5th November 2021 and 6th May 2022, seven focus groups were conducted with 34 students in post-primary schools in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The data was analysed using the COM-B behaviour model to explore the perceived facilitators and barriers impacting students’ ability to protect themselves from acquirement of HPV. Students perceived their knowledge of HPV to be poor and supported the addition of comprehensive mandatory HPV education at 15–16 years old when many of them were becoming sexually active. They identified barriers including lack of parental education, school ethos and religion and insufficient education regarding their legal rights to self-consent to HPV vaccination. Students felt that removal of these barriers would lead to safer sexual practices, increased awareness of the importance of HPV screening and increased HPV vaccination uptake. The recommendations provided by students need to be supported by the Education Authority in conjunction with the Department of Health in order to be successfully implemented into the post-primary school curriculum.

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“…A few very recent works talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the traditional non-COVID vaccines, such as MMR, IPV, etc. However they only comprise of anectodal evidence (Altman et al 2023;Knijff et al 2023) and rudimentary surveybased analyses (Rivera-Rivera et al 2023). Our study is the first to analyse the impact of COVID-19 on opinions towards the non-COVID vaccines on a large scale over social media.…”

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Winds of Change: Impact of COVID-19 on Vaccine-Related Opinions of Twitter Users

Poddar

Mondal

Misra³

et al. 2022

ICWSM

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Today, administering COVID-19 vaccines at a societal scale has been deemed as the most appropriate way to defend against the COVID-19 pandemic. This global vaccination drive naturally fueled a possibility of pro-vax and anti-vax users strongly expressing their supports and concerns regarding the vaccines in online social media platforms. Understanding this online discourse is crucial for policy makers. This understanding is likely to impact the success of vaccination drives and might even impact the final outcome of our fight against the pandemic. The goal of this work is to improve this understanding using the lens of Twitter-discourse data. We first develop a classifier to categorize users according to their vaccine-related stance with high precision (97%). Using this method we detect and investigate specific user-groups who posted about vaccines in pre-COVID and COVID times. We specifically identify distinct topics that these users talk about, and investigate how vaccine-related discourse has changed between pre-COVID times and COVID times. Finally, for the first time, we investigate the change of vaccine-related stances in Twitter users and shed light on potential reasons for such changes in stance.

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Factors Affecting Vaccine Attitudes Influenced by the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 39 publications

References 77 publications

From Qualitative Research to Quantitative Preference Elicitation: An Example in Invasive Meningococcal Disease

From Qualitative Research to Quantitative Preference Elicitation: An Example in Invasive Meningococcal Disease

Applying the COM-B behaviour model to understand factors which impact 15–16 year old students’ ability to protect themselves against acquirement of Human Papilloma virus (HPV) in Northern Ireland, UK

Winds of Change: Impact of COVID-19 on Vaccine-Related Opinions of Twitter Users

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