Intentions to Seek Information About the Influenza Vaccine: The Role of Informational Subjective Norms, Anticipated and Experienced Affect, and Information Insufficiency Among Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People

Lu, Hang; Winneg, Kenneth; Jamieson, Kathleen Hall

doi:10.1111/risa.13459

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“…Patients who had been recently hospitalised also seemed likelier to take the vaccine while a significant proportion of non-hospitalised patients are unaware of the indication to vaccinate despite being in high-risk groups [30]. Findings are similar in other populations [31].…”

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Influenza vaccination in the COVID-19 era

Grech

Borg

2020

Early Human Development

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Section: Calculationsmentioning

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Influenza vaccination in the COVID-19 era

Grech

Borg

2020

Early Human Development

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“…People who have been effortfully engaging in information seeking may also be more likely to form a stable behavior in taking vaccines. Some evidence suggested that people who seek more vaccine-related information have shown a stronger tendency to be vaccinated (see Lu et al., 2020 for review). The media in which people look for information may also moderate the relationship between information seeking and vaccination intention (e.g., H. O.…”

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confidence: 99%

Profiling vaccine believers and skeptics in nurses: A latent profile analysis

Leung

Wei

et al. 2022

International Journal of Nursing Studies

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Background A tailored immunization program is deemed more successful in encouraging vaccination. Understanding the profiles of vaccine hesitancy constructs in nurses can help policymakers in devising such programs. Encouraging vaccination in nurses is an important step in building public confidence in the upcoming COVID-19 and influenza vaccination campaigns. Objectives Using a person-centered approach, this study aimed to reveal the profiles of the 5C psychological constructs of vaccine hesitancy (confidence, complacency, constraints, calculation, and collective responsibility) among Hong Kong nurses. Design Cross-sectional online survey. Settings With the promotion of a professional nursing organization, we invited Hong Kong nurses to complete an online survey between mid-March and late April 2020 during the COVID-19 outbreak. Participants 1,193 eligible nurses (mean age = 40.82, SD = 10.49; with 90.0% being female) were included in the analyses. Methods In the online survey, we asked the invited nurses to report their demographics, COVID-19-related work demands (including the supply of personal protective equipment, work stress, and attitudes towards workplace infection control policies), the 5C vaccine hesitancy components, seasonal influenza vaccine uptake history, and the COVID-19 vaccine uptake intention. Latent profile analysis was employed to identify distinct vaccine hesitancy antecedent subgroups. Results Results revealed five profiles, including “believers” (31%; high confidence, collective responsibility; low complacency, constraint), “skeptics” (11%; opposite to the believers), “outsiders” (14%; low calculation, collective responsibility), “contradictors” (4%; high in all 5C constructs), and “middlers” (40%; middle in all 5C constructs). Believers were less educated, reported more long-term illnesses, greater work stress, higher perceived personal protective equipment sufficiency, and stronger trust in government than skeptics. They were older and had higher perceived personal protective equipment sufficiency than middlers. Also, believers were older and had greater work stress than outsiders. From the highest to the lowest on vaccination uptake and intention were believers and contradictors, then middlers and outsiders, and finally skeptics. Conclusion Different immunization programs can be devised based on the vaccine hesitancy profiles and their predictors. Despite both profiles being low in vaccination uptake and intention, our results distinguished between outsiders and skeptics regarding their different levels of information-seeking engagement. The profile structure reveals the possibilities in devising tailored interventions based on their 5C characteristics. The current data could serve as the reference for the identification of individual profile memb...

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“…Confidence is especially important when a vaccine is new [ 74 ]. When people do not have personal knowledge or experience with a vaccine, they have information insufficiency and are motivated to seek additional information [ 75 , 76 ]. During information seeking, they may encounter disinformation, misinformation, or conspiracies, and if their confidence is low, information seekers are more susceptible to believe inaccurate information [ 77 ].…”

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Correlates of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among a Community Sample of African Americans Living in the Southern United States

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In the United States, African Americans (AAs) have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 mortality. However, AAs are more likely to be hesitant in receiving COVID-19 vaccinations when compared to non-Hispanic Whites. We examined factors associated with vaccine hesitancy among a predominant AA community sample. We performed a cross-sectional analysis on data collected from a convenience sample of 257 community-dwelling participants in the Central Savannah River Area from 5 December 2020, through 17 April 2021. Vaccine hesitancy was categorized as resistant, hesitant, and acceptant. We estimated relative odds of vaccine resistance and vaccine hesitancy using polytomous logistic regression models. Nearly one-third of the participants were either hesitant (n = 40, 15.6%) or resistant (n = 42, 16.3%) to receiving a COVID-19 vaccination. Vaccine-resistant participants were more likely to be younger and were more likely to have experienced housing insecurity due to COVID-19 when compared to both acceptant and hesitant participants, respectively. Age accounted for nearly 25% of the variation in vaccine resistance, with 21-fold increased odds (OR: 21.93, 95% CI: 8.97–5.26–91.43) of vaccine resistance in participants aged 18 to 29 compared to 50 and older adults. Housing insecurity accounted for 8% of the variation in vaccine resistance and was associated with 7-fold increased odds of vaccine resistance (AOR: 7.35, 95% CI: 1.99–27.10). In this sample, AAs under the age of 30 and those experiencing housing insecurity because of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to be resistant to receiving a free COVID-19 vaccination.

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Intentions to Seek Information About the Influenza Vaccine: The Role of Informational Subjective Norms, Anticipated and Experienced Affect, and Information Insufficiency Among Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People

Cited by 27 publications

References 48 publications

Influenza vaccination in the COVID-19 era

Influenza vaccination in the COVID-19 era

Profiling vaccine believers and skeptics in nurses: A latent profile analysis

Correlates of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among a Community Sample of African Americans Living in the Southern United States

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