Parents’ willingness to pay for their children’s COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan, China: A cross-sectional study

Huang, Chun-Lian; Chen, Jau-Yuan; Lin, Xiaoqing; Deng, Jing-Shan; Tung, Tao‐Hsin; Zhu, Jiansheng

doi:10.1080/21645515.2023.2168936

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“…The increase in parental willingness could be attained through different aspects, such as using Zoom-focused education and minimizing the pay for the vaccine. 49 An introduction of ZOOM sessions and empowerment of parents to ask their concerns related to vaccines to HCPs during these sessions reported 65% improved vaccination compliance in Hong Kong preschoolers. 50 Clear and appropriate communication with caregivers and parents related to the benefits of vaccination and awareness related to safety precautions help improve the rate of vaccination among children.…”

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Parental Willingness and Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccination for Children in Saudi Arabia

AlMuammar,

Alshora,

Sadik Gari

et al. 2024

PHMT

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Purpose The study aimed to examine the parents’ willingness and its association with demographic factors, attitudes, and practices to vaccinate their child against COVID-19. Patients and Methods The study involved 2500 participants from various regions of Saudi Arabia and was conducted between July 1, 2021, and August 31, 2021. Information was gathered via an online questionnaire comprising 26 questions, distributed across social media platforms. Informed consent was obtained from all participants before the commencement of the study. A chi-square test was applied to analyze the association among variables, utilizing a subset of 2127 participants based on study inclusion criteria. A chi-square test was applied to observe the association. Results The willingness of parents to vaccinae their children against COVID-19 was found 61%. The main reason for taking was “Protect the child” by 1094 (51.4%%) and the main reason for refusing was “Side effects/safety concerns” by 477 (22.4%). 1846 (86.8%) participants, received the COVID-19 vaccine or were planning to receive it. Conclusion Our study concluded that parent’s willingness to vaccinate their children against COVID-19 was relatively high in our sample as about two-thirds of them accept the vaccine for their child once it is available. The use of the health belief model demonstrated the urgent requirement for awareness and education campaigns in the private and public sectors to increase awareness of parents not only related to COVID-19 but also to cater to any unexpected or suspected pandemic of infectious disease in the future full capacity.

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Parental Willingness and Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccination for Children in Saudi Arabia

AlMuammar,

Alshora,

Sadik Gari

et al. 2024

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“…The contradiction may be explained by vaccination promotion efforts. When the majority of people considered the price to be too high when the expected Chinese vaccine price was about 1,000 RMB in August 2020 [ 48 ], numerous strategies were adopted in China to facilitate vaccine uptake [ 49 ], some of which may have had a positive impact on WTP, such as health communication campaigns [ 50 ]. In September 2020, the Chinese public already favored a vaccine price of 600 RMB [ 51 ].…”

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Preferences regarding COVID-19 vaccination among 12,000 adults in China: A cross-sectional discrete choice experiment

Yu,

Jiao,

Chen

et al. 2024

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Understanding public preferences concerning vaccination is critical to inform pandemic response strategies. To investigate Chinese adults’ preferences regarding COVID-19 vaccine attributes, we conducted a cross-sectional online survey in 12,000 Chinese adults in June-July, 2021. Participants were requested to answer a series of discrete choice questions related to hypothetical COVID-19 vaccines. Using mixed logit models, our analysis revealed that participants had a higher preference for COVID-19 vaccines with longer duration of protection (coefficient: 1.272, 95% confidence interval [1.016 to 1.529]) and higher efficacy (coefficient: 1.063, [0.840, 1.287]). Conversely, participants demonstrated a lower preference associated with higher risk of rare but serious side-effects (coefficient: -1.158, [-1.359, -0.958]), oral administration (coefficient: -0.211, [-0.377, -0.046]), more doses (coefficient: -0.148, [-0.296, 0.000]) and imported origin (coefficient: -0.653, [-0.864, -0.443]). Moreover, preferences were heterogeneous by individual factors: highly educated participants were more sensitive to the negative vaccine attributes including price (coefficient -0.312, [-0.370, -0.253]) and imported vaccine (coefficient -0.941, [-1.186, -0.697]); there was also substantial heterogeneity in vaccine preferences with respect to age group, marital status, work status, income, chronic diagnosis history, COVID-19 vaccination history and geographic regions. As the first study of examining the public preferences for COVID-19 vaccine in China with a large nationwide sample of 12,000 adults, our results indicate that future vaccine should pose lower risk, possess longer protection period, have higher efficacy, be domestically produced, and have lower costs to increase the COVID-19 vaccination coverage. Our current study findings from this study provide insights and recommendations for not only COVID-19 vaccine design but also vaccine attribute preferences to increase vaccine uptake in potential future pandemics.

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“…However, Li et al argued that highly educated individuals are usually capable of making the right vaccination decisions and, thus, less educated individuals are more hesitant about vaccines, but both scholars agreed that knowledge is an important factor influencing vaccine hesitancy, and Li also found that vaccine hesitation was influenced by age, with older individuals being more hesitant about vaccines [18]. Reiter et al found that individuals with lower socioeconomic status or no health insurance were more likely to be vaccine-hesitant [48] and that aggressive vaccine payment policies may promote COVID-19 vaccination [49]. Low income is a barrier to vaccination, but it has also been shown that households with higher income levels are more able to cope with the adverse effects of disease and, thus, have higher levels of vaccine hesitancy [50].…”

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Analysis of Differences in User Groups and Post Sentiment of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitators in Chinese Social-Media Platforms

Liu

Zheng

2023

Healthcare

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(1) Background: The COVID-19 epidemic is still global and no specific drug has been developed for COVID-19. Vaccination can both prevent infection and limit the spread of the epidemic. Eliminating hesitation to the COVID-19 vaccine and achieving early herd immunity is a common goal for all countries. However, efforts in this area have not been significant and there is still a long way to go to eliminate vaccine hesitancy. (2) Objective: This study aimed to uncover differences in the characteristics and sentiments of COVID-19 vaccine hesitators on Chinese social-media platforms and to achieve a classification of vaccine-hesitant groups. (3) Methods: COVID-19-vaccine-hesitation posts and user characteristics were collected on the Sina Microblog platform for posting times spanning one year, and posts were identified for hesitation types. Logistic regression was used to conduct user-group analysis. The differences in user characteristics between the various types of COVID-19 vaccine posts were analysed according to four user characteristics: gender, address type, degree of personal-information disclosure, and whether they followed health topics. Sentiment analysis was conducted using sentiment analysis tools to calculate the sentiment scores and sentiment polarity of various COVID-19 vaccine posts, and the K–W test was used to uncover the sentiment differences between various types of COVID-19-vaccine-hesitation posts. (4) Results: There are differences in the types of COVID-19-vaccine-hesitation posts posted by users with different characteristics, and different types of COVID-19-vaccine-hesitation posts differ in terms of sentiment. Differences in user attributes and user behaviors are found across the different COVID-19-vaccine-hesitation types. Ultimately, two COVID-19-vaccine-hesitant user groups were identified: Body-related and Non-bodily-related. Users who posted body-related vaccine-hesitation posts are more often female, disclose more personal information and follow health topics on social-media platforms. Users who posted non-bodily-related posts are more often male, disclose less personal information, and do not follow health topics. The average sentiment score for all COVID-19-vaccine-hesitant-type posts is less than 0.45, with negative-sentiment posts outweighing positive- and neutral-sentiment posts in each type, among which the “Individual rights” type is the most negative. (5) Conclusions: This paper complements the application of user groups in the field of vaccine hesitation, and the results of the analysis of group characteristics and post sentiment can help to provide an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of the concerns and needs of COVID-19 vaccine hesitators. This will help public-health agencies to implement more targeted strategies to eliminate vaccine hesitancy and improve their work related to the COVID-19 vaccine, with far-reaching implications for COVID-19-vaccine promotion and vaccination.

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Parents’ willingness to pay for their children’s COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan, China: A cross-sectional study

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Parental Willingness and Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccination for Children in Saudi Arabia

Parental Willingness and Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccination for Children in Saudi Arabia

Preferences regarding COVID-19 vaccination among 12,000 adults in China: A cross-sectional discrete choice experiment

Analysis of Differences in User Groups and Post Sentiment of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitators in Chinese Social-Media Platforms

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