Demographics of Vaccine Hesitancy in Chandigarh, India

Wagner, Abram L.; Shotwell, Abigail; Boulton, Matthew L.; Carlson, Bradley F.; Mathew, Joseph L

doi:10.3389/fmed.2020.585579

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“…Nothwithstanding, Convenience equally plays a significant role as shown in figures 1&2. These results are in accordance with the report of the WHO Working group on vaccine hesitancy and other publications that stated that Lack of confidence, Complacency and Convenienceare the three main factors that cause vaccine hesitancy (8,9,22–25).…”

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The burden of vaccine hesitancy for routine immunization in Yaounde-Cameroon: restrictive sampling technique

Yakum

Funwie

Ajong

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Immunization is the most cost-effective health intervention in the world yet, vaccination uptake is still low with less than 50% of children aged 12-23 months fully vaccinated Cameroon. The objective of this study was to estimate the burden of vaccine hesitancy associated with routine EPI vaccines in Yaounde-Cameroon. A two-stage cross-sectional cluster survey was conducted in Yaounde in May-June 2022, targeting parents/guardians of children 0-59 months. Clusters were selected with probability proportionate to size (PPS) and households selection done using a restricted sampling method. Data collection was done using an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Data were cleaned using MS-Excel 2019, and analyzed with R version 4.1.0 (2021-05-18). A total of 529 participants were enrolled out of 708 visited, giving a non-response rate of 25%. In total, vaccine hesitancy was reported in 137(25.90[22.35-29.80] %), and vaccine hesitancy prevalence did not vary significantly across different households wealth levels (p-value= 0.3786). However, in wealthy households refusal of vaccines (14%) was less than in poorer households (20%). Lack of trust, confidence, and perceived complacency are the leading causes of vaccine hesitancy related to routine immunization in Yaounde-Cameroon. We, therefore, recommend that the burden of vaccine hesitancy should be assessed at national scale and identify sources of misinformation that are at the origin of vaccine hesitancy. Having a clear notion of the effect of social media(Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc,), radio, TV, and other information sources might guide interventions to combat vaccine hesitancy.

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confidence: 92%

The burden of vaccine hesitancy for routine immunization in Yaounde-Cameroon: restrictive sampling technique

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Funwie

Ajong

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“…Surveys that have indicated lower vaccine hesitancy are smaller in sample size and less representative due to higher representation of respondents from urban areas in India (Lazarus et al, 2021). Sub-national evidence of vaccine hesitancy for COVID-19 vaccination in India has been reported from different regions and specific groups in the population (Jain et al, 2021; Kumari et al, 2021; Noronha et al, 2021; Roy chowdhury et al, 2021; Wagner, 2021)…”

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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in India: An Exploratory Analysis

Agarwal

Naha

2021

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Vaccine hesitancy is context specific and varies over time and space. Therefore, strategies to tackle vaccine hesitancy based on evidence from high income countries are unlikely to serve the purpose adequately in LMICs. We use district level evidence on COVID-19 vaccine uptake rates from an LMIC - India to provide evidence of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. We argue that vaccination rates during the different phases of COVID-19 vaccination across the districts is likely to be related to vaccine hesitancy. Districts with larger rural population and lower literacy rates had lower vaccination rates. High past child immunization rates were positively correlated with COVID-19 vaccination uptake. Across the four phases of vaccination drive, vaccine hesitancy was the highest during the third phase of the vaccination drive, and therefore the above correlations were strongest during the third and the fourth phase. Measures of family planning indicators too seem to be correlated with vaccine uptakes during the third phase which indicate the regions most susceptible to vaccine hesitancy.

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“…Vaccine hesitancy is currently under-studied in developing countries [37]. It was found that half of the study population in this study are hesitant to vaccine.…”

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Understanding determinants of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy; an emphasis on the role of religious affiliation and individual’s reliance on traditional remedy

Defar

Welde

Menebo

2022

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Background The damage COVID-19 has caused interms of mortalities, economic breakdown and social disruption is immense. The COVID-19 vaccine has been one of the efficient prevention strategies so far in preventing the pandemic. However, the publics’ hesitancy towards vaccines has enormously affected this task. With emerging research findings indicating that a substantial proportion of adults are hesitant about a vaccine for COVID-19, important work that identifies and describes vaccine hesitant individuals is required to begin to understand and address this problem. Objective This study assessed public attitude towards COVID-19 Vaccine and identified important factors that lead to its hesitancy. Methods A web and paper-based cross-sectional survey study was conducted from July 31 to August 12, 2021. The study participants are staffs and students at Jimma University. A total of 358 participants were selected using stratified simple random sampling and requested to fill a survey questionnaire. Binomial logistic regression analysis was done to identify factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy. Results Half of the participants were found to be hesitant to Covid-19 vaccine. The odds of becoming vaccine hesitant among middle income was two times more than those with lower income (AOR 2.17, 95% CI 1.05–4.5). Furthermore, respondent’s extent of media exposure was associated with vaccine hesitancy with the odds of becoming vaccine hesitant among those whose source of Covid-19 information is from four media sources (Social Media, Mass Media, Health care worker and Friends/family/Neighbor) being 74% lower (AOR .26, 95% CI .09–.69) than those with one media source. Concern towards vaccine side effect, vaccine effectiveness and having the belief to treat Covid-19 with traditional remedies were found to increase the odds of becoming vaccine hesitant by 31%, 42% and 37% respectively. Moreover, the association between side-effect concern and vaccine hesitancy was moderated by participant’s religious affiliation.

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Demographics of Vaccine Hesitancy in Chandigarh, India

Cited by 30 publications

References 38 publications

The burden of vaccine hesitancy for routine immunization in Yaounde-Cameroon: restrictive sampling technique

The burden of vaccine hesitancy for routine immunization in Yaounde-Cameroon: restrictive sampling technique

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in India: An Exploratory Analysis

Understanding determinants of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy; an emphasis on the role of religious affiliation and individual’s reliance on traditional remedy

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