Unravelling disparity in age-specific acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination: the contextual and psychosocial influences

Yuan, Jiehu; Lam, Wendy Wing Tak; Xiao, Jingyi; Cowling, Benjamin J.; Ni, Michael Y.; Dong, Meihong; Liao, Qiuyan

doi:10.1080/08870446.2023.2239279

Psychology & Health

2023

DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2023.2239279

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Unravelling disparity in age-specific acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination: the contextual and psychosocial influences

Jiehu Yuan

Wendy Wing Tak Lam

Jingyi Xiao

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Dynamic predictors of COVID-19 vaccination uptake and their interconnections over two years in Hong Kong

Yuan,

Xu,

Wong

et al. 2024

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The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines faces a significant barrier in the form of vaccine hesitancy. This study adopts a dynamic and network perspective to explore the determinants of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Hong Kong, focusing on multi-level determinants and their interconnections. Following the framework proposed by the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE), the study used repeated cross-sectional surveys to map these determinants at multiple levels and investigates their interconnections simultaneously in a sample of 15,179 over two years. The results highlight the dynamic nature of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in an evolving pandemic. The findings suggest that vaccine confidence attitudes play crucial roles in vaccination uptake, with their importance shifting over time. The initial emphasis on vaccine safety gradually transitioned to heightened consideration of vaccine effectiveness at a later stage. The study also highlights the impact of chronic condition, age, COVID-19 case numbers, and non-pharmaceutical preventive behaviours on vaccine uptake. Higher educational attainment and being married were associated with primary and booster vaccine uptake and it may be possible to leverage these groups as early innovation adopters. Trust in government acts as a crucial bridging factor linking various variables in the networks with vaccine confidence attitudes, which subsequently closely linked to vaccine uptake. This study provides insights for designing future effective vaccination programmes for changing circumstances.

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Dynamic predictors of COVID-19 vaccination uptake and their interconnections over two years in Hong Kong

Yuan,

Xu,

Wong

et al. 2024

Nat Commun

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Understanding and mitigating negative affect in preventive health behaviors: Evidence from the COVID-19 vaccination process

Fan,

Hu,

Han

et al. 2024

J Health Psychol

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The study investigated the willingness for vaccine uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic (April–June 2021), and explored the effect of both mindfulness and health education in managing negative affect post-vaccination. In study 1, a sample of 468 Chinese college students completed a one-time survey, assessing loneliness, stress, medical fear, and vaccination likelihood. Results showed that medical fear mediated the relationship between loneliness, stress and vaccination likelihood. In study 2, 70 college students were randomly assigned to one of three intervention conditions (mindfulness, health education, and control) during vaccination. Participants in mindfulness group showed lower negative affect scores than the control group post-intervention ( p = 0.019). However, no significant difference was reported between health education with the other two conditions. As such, medical fear would be an important factor to target for improving the likelihood of vaccine uptake. Furthermore, a short mindfulness intervention was effective to improve experience of vaccination through mitigating negative affect.

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Unravelling disparity in age-specific acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination: the contextual and psychosocial influences

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Dynamic predictors of COVID-19 vaccination uptake and their interconnections over two years in Hong Kong

Dynamic predictors of COVID-19 vaccination uptake and their interconnections over two years in Hong Kong

Understanding and mitigating negative affect in preventive health behaviors: Evidence from the COVID-19 vaccination process

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