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Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2021 Jan 04; Vol. 12 (1), pp. 29. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jan 04. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Identifying and understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy within distinct populations may aid future public health messaging. Using nationally representative data from the general adult populations of Ireland (N = 1041) and the United Kingdom (UK; N = 2025), we found that vaccine hesitancy/resistance was evident for 35% and 31% of these populations respectively. Vaccine hesitant/resistant respondents in Ireland and the UK differed on a number of sociodemographic and health-related variables but were similar across a broad array of psychological constructs. In both populations, those resistant to a COVID-19 vaccine were less likely to obtain information about the pandemic from traditional and authoritative sources and had similar levels of mistrust in these sources compared to vaccine accepting respondents. Given the geographical proximity and socio-economic similarity of the populations studied, it is not possible to generalize findings to other populations, however, the methodology employed here may be useful to those wishing to understand COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy elsewhere.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Aged
COVID-19 psychology
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Humans
Ireland
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics prevention & control
Surveys and Questionnaires
United Kingdom
Vaccination Refusal ethnology
Vaccination Refusal psychology
Vaccination Refusal statistics & numerical data
Young Adult
COVID-19 prevention & control
COVID-19 Vaccines
Patient Acceptance of Health Care psychology
SARS-CoV-2 immunology
Vaccination psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2041-1723
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Nature communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 33397962
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20226-9