Assessing vaccine hesitancy in the UK population using a generalized vaccine hesitancy survey instrument

Luyten, Jeroen; Bruyneel, Luk; Hoek, Albert Jan van

doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.03.041

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“…Worryingly, comparable proportions of parents who were highly concerned towards vaccinations also held these beliefs. Also consistent with recent literature were vaccine safety concerns [48][49][50][51] however, the high number of parents citing 'free-riding' logic as a reason not to vaccinate is also of concern and is higher than other recent Australian studies [15,48,49] and may indicate a need to address both the importance and benefits of vaccinations for these parents. The fact that parents who reportedly had no hesitations to vaccinate answered one or more questions about vaccination beliefs in an opposing way suggests that decision-making is complex and integrates many external factors.…”

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Disparities in parental awareness of children’s seasonal influenza vaccination recommendations and influencers of vaccination

2020

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Objective To determine parental awareness of influenza vaccination recommendations for children and explore associations with awareness. Design Cross-sectional survey. Setting/participants South Australian parents with a telephone listing in the Electronic White Pages were randomly selected. Methods Participants were interviewed using Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) during May-July 2016. Univariable and multivariable analyses explored characteristics associated with awareness; with the survey data weighted to reflect the population of SA and the probability of selection within a household. Results Of 539 parents, 33% were aware of the recommendation that all children (<5 years) should receive the influenza vaccine annually with 51.9% aware that children with special risk medical conditions (SRMC) should also receive the vaccine annually. Characteristics strongly associated with parental awareness of the recommendation for children aged < 5 years were knowledge of recommendation for children with a SRMC (adjusted Odds Ratio [aOR]

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Disparities in parental awareness of children’s seasonal influenza vaccination recommendations and influencers of vaccination

2020

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“…Thanks to successful immunization programs, many serious and highly contagious diseases have become rare and, in some cases, eliminated and even eradicated [1]. Despite the unquestionable benefits of vaccination, previous research has shown that many individuals have concerns about accepting vaccines for themselves or for their children, and some individuals choose to delay or reject vaccinations altogether [2][3][4][5][6]. This phenomenon, labeled vaccine hesitancy [7], poses a threat to global health, as it undermines vaccination coverage and can lead to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (see [8], for figures on measles outbreaks).…”

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Trait reactance and trust in doctors as predictors of vaccination behavior, vaccine attitudes, and use of complementary and alternative medicine in parents of young children

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The aim of the present study was to investigate whether anti-vaccination attitudes and behavior, and positive attitudes to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), are driven by trait reactance and a distrust in medical doctors. Methods The sample consisted of 770 Finnish parents who filled out an online survey. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to examine if trait reactance plays a role in vaccination decisions, vaccine attitudes, and in the use of CAM, and whether that relationship is mediated by trust in medical doctors. Results Parents with higher trait reactance had lower trust in doctors, more negative attitudes to vaccines, a higher likelihood of not accepting vaccines for their children and themselves, and a higher likelihood to use CAM treatments that are not included in evidence-based medicine. Our analyses also revealed associations between vaccination behavior and CAM use and vaccine attitudes and CAM use, but there was no support for the previous notion that these associations would be explained by trait reactance and trust in doctors.

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“…The VHS is measured on a five-point Likert-type rating scale ranging from 'strongly agree' to 'strongly disagree. We made changes to the 10-items VHS scale informed by recommendations from two studies conducted in two high-income countries (Canada and UK) and Guatemala (low-income country) [18,20,21].…”

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“…The WHO/ SAGE recommended evaluating and researching these tools in different contexts to determine if they could be used as the basis for measuring vaccine hesitancy and be adapted to low and middle-income country settings [4,15]. As a response to this recommendation, the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (VHS), one of these tools which has the potential to quantify and compare vaccine hesitancy between countries and over time, has been validated and evaluated in Canada, Guatemala and recently in the United Kingdom [18,20,21]. Findings from these three countries revealed that VHS is a valid, reliable tool to measure vaccine hesitancy.…”

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“…Findings from these three countries revealed that VHS is a valid, reliable tool to measure vaccine hesitancy. Additionally, they recommended that more adaptation and validation of VHS is needed in different contexts [18,20,21]. To our knowledge, none of the existing tools to measure vaccine hesitancy have been adapted and validated in Africa.…”

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Psychometric properties of the adapted measles vaccine hesitancy scale in Sudan

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Background There is a need for reliable and validated tools to identify, classify, and quantify vaccine-hesitancy in low and middle-income countries, such as Sudan. We evaluated the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the measles vaccine hesitancy scale by assessing its reliability, convergent validity, and criterion validity in Sudan. The vaccine hesitancy scale (VHS) was originally developed by the WHO/SAGE Working Group of Vaccine Hesitancy. Methods A community-based survey among parents was conducted in February 2019 in Khartoum state. We conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to examine the structure of the adapted measles VHS (aMVHS). We computed Cronbach's alphas, correlations with other vaccine hesitancy measurements including the Parental Attitude towards Childhood Vaccination (PACV) and the Vaccine Confidence Index (VCI), and performed a Mann-Whitney U test for assessing the reliability and the convergent and criterion validity, respectively. Moreover, to examine whether the aMVHS can predict the child's vaccination status, the area under the curve (AUC) was estimated using receiver operator characteristic (ROC) curves. Results The questionnaire was completed by 500 parents. Most were women (87.2%) between the ages of 20 and 47 (M = 31.15, SD = 5.74). The factor analyses indicated that the aMVHS comprises of two factors (sub-scales): 'confidence' and 'complacency'. The aMVHS subscales correlated weakly to moderately with the PACV and VCI scales. The area under the curve was 0.499 at most (P >0.05) and the aMVHS score did hardly differ between actually vaccinated and non-vaccinated children.

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Assessing vaccine hesitancy in the UK population using a generalized vaccine hesitancy survey instrument

Cited by 141 publications

References 38 publications

Disparities in parental awareness of children’s seasonal influenza vaccination recommendations and influencers of vaccination

Disparities in parental awareness of children’s seasonal influenza vaccination recommendations and influencers of vaccination

Trait reactance and trust in doctors as predictors of vaccination behavior, vaccine attitudes, and use of complementary and alternative medicine in parents of young children

Psychometric properties of the adapted measles vaccine hesitancy scale in Sudan

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