Nationalism, conspiracy theories and vaccine mandates: Exploring the statism determinants for attitudes to COVID-19 control in China

Zhang, Ruifen; Yan, Jun; Jia, Hepeng; Luo, Xiaodong; Lin, Jingke; Liu, Qinliang

doi:10.1016/j.jvacx.2023.100263

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“…The questionnaire is one of the important means to investigate public health behavior willingness and its influencing factors. This research method has been used in many previous studies on Chinese public epidemic prevention behavior [ 8 , 10 , 15 , 39 ]. Although it is difficult for survey researchers to obtain more profound and more nuanced ideas and understanding from participants compared with in-depth interviews, the closed-ended questionnaire has high efficiency, and the results can be processed uniformly for quantitative statistical analysis.…”

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“…The main theoretical contribution of this paper is that it reveals an alternative landscape regarding the determinants of people’s willingness to vaccinate. This study expanded the existing body of literature that explores the politicization of the Chinese public’s attitude towards and intention for COVID-19 vaccination [ 13 , 16 , 35 , 39 ]. The second contribution is that it shows that the influence of the policy itself can affect the public attitudes.…”

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Policy Endorsement and Booster Shot: Exploring Politicized Determinants for Acceptance of a Third Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine in China

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China’s recent termination of strict COVID-19 control necessitates taking a booster vaccine shot as a precaution against the pandemic as quickly as possible. A large body of research has examined people’s attitudes toward and intentions for the booster shot. However, most studies failed to explore how China’s sociopolitical context has shaped their attitude regarding the booster jab take-up. The current study utilizes data from a national survey adopting quota sampling to analyze the Chinese public’s medical and non-medical considerations to determine their intention for the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. The study found that thanks to China’s initial successful lockdown policies, personal risk and benefit perceptions did not dominate their views regarding booster vaccination. Instead, respondents’ gender, nationalism, endorsement of the zero-COVID policy, self-efficacy regarding vaccination, and perceived infection severity were the major factors underlying their booster shot intention. The situation highlights how the politicized context of China’s COVID-19 control has impacted people’s plans to practice preventive behaviors. It is necessary to offset the negative consequences. One strategy is to educate the Chinese public with more medically relevant information to help them make rational choices regarding vaccination and other protective measures. On the other hand, such education can utilize this nationalistic mental status to enhance the persuasion effect.

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“…In academia, mainstream scholarship related to COVID-19 vaccination centers on the willingness, attitudes, confidence, and acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine among different groups, such as healthcare workers, patients living with chronic diseases, college students, older adults, and vaccine hesitators, and their determinants ( 3 , 4 ), and strategies for implementing CVPs, such as social campaigns, incentives, and science popularization ( 5 , 6 ). However, COVID-19 vaccine communication has been less explored in China.…”

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Unfolding COVID-19 vaccine communication campaigns in China’s neighborhoods: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ narratives

Yang,

Han

2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionThe Chinese state has recently implemented the COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Campaign (CVCC) to counter vaccine hesitancy. Nonetheless, the extant literature that examines COVID-19 vaccine acceptance has less represented COVID-19 vaccine communication efforts.MethodsTo address this lacuna, we qualitatively explored how CVCCs were organized in Chinese communities by investigating 54 Chinese stakeholders.ResultsThis study indicates that the CVCC was sustained by top-down political pressure. CVCCs’ components involve ideological education among politically affiliated health workers, expanding health worker networks, training health workers, implementing media promotion, communicating with residents using persuasive and explanatory techniques, encouraging multistakeholder partnerships, and using public opinion-steered and coercive approaches. While CVCCs significantly enhanced COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, lacking open communication, stigmatizing vaccine refusers, insufficient stakeholder collaboration, and low trust in the COVID-19 vaccination program (CVP) eroded the validity of CVCCs.DiscussionTo promote the continuity of CVCCs in China, CVCC performers are expected to conduct open and inclusive communication with residents. Furthermore, CVP planers should create robust partnerships among health workers by ensuring their agreements on strategies for implementing CVCCs and optimize COVID-19 immunization service provision to depoliticize CVPs. Our study will not only deepen global audiences’ understanding of CVCCs in authoritarian China but also offer potential neighborhood-level solutions for implementing local and global public health communication efforts.

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The Politicization of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Kirbiš,

Lubej

2024

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

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Nationalism, conspiracy theories and vaccine mandates: Exploring the statism determinants for attitudes to COVID-19 control in China

Cited by 6 publications

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Policy Endorsement and Booster Shot: Exploring Politicized Determinants for Acceptance of a Third Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine in China

Policy Endorsement and Booster Shot: Exploring Politicized Determinants for Acceptance of a Third Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine in China

Unfolding COVID-19 vaccine communication campaigns in China’s neighborhoods: a qualitative study of stakeholders’ narratives

The Politicization of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

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