<i>It just doesn’t feel right</i>– the relevance of emotions and intuition for parental vaccine conspiracy beliefs and vaccination uptake

Tomljenović, Helena; Bubić, Andreja; Erceg, Nikola

doi:10.1080/08870446.2019.1673894

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“…The results regarding the beliefs in conspiracy theories showed that the latter were related to the presence of depression or distress, but not to past history of depression or suicidality, and were in accord with the literature ( Freyler et al, 2019 ; Tomljenovic et al, 2020 ). As correlation does not imply causation, conspiracy theories could be either the cause of depression or on the contrary a copying mechanism against depression.…”

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confidence: 86%

Self-reported changes in anxiety, depression and suicidality during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece

Fountoulakis

Apostolidou

Atsiova

et al. 2021

Journal of Affective Disorders

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Highlights During the lockdown: Clinical depression was present in 9.31% Severe distress was present in 8.5% Increased anxious and depressive emotions were present in more than 40%. 23.31% experienced a relapse of depression 8.96% of cases without previous history, who manifested their first depressive episode. Beliefs in conspiracy theories were widely prevalent, with, on average, at least half of cases accepting various misconceptions. Beliefs in conspiracy theories probably constitute a maladaptive copying mechanism

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Self-reported changes in anxiety, depression and suicidality during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece

Fountoulakis

Apostolidou

Atsiova

et al. 2021

Journal of Affective Disorders

179

135

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“…Another finding regarding the beliefs in conspiracy theories was that the latter were related to the presence of depression or distress, and were in accord with the literature ( Freyler et al., 2019 ; Tomljenovic et al., 2020 ). As correlation does not imply causation, conspiracy theories could be either the cause of depression or on the contrary a copying mechanism against depression.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

University students’ changes in mental health status and determinants of behavior during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece

Patsali

Mousa

Papadopoulou

et al. 2020

Psychiatry Research

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Highlights During the lockdown. Two thirds of university students reported at least ‘much’ increase in anxiety. One third in depressive feelings and. 2.59% an increase in suicidal thoughts. Major depression was present in 12.43%. Severe distress was present in 13.46%. Risk factors were:. Female sex. History of self-injury. History of suicidal attempts. Following studies of law, literature, pedagogics, political sciences and related studies as well as technical but not health sciences. Beliefs in conspiracy theories. Enjoyed acceptance ranging from 20 to 68%. Students of law, literature, pedagogics, political sciences and related studies manifested higher acceptance rates.

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“…7 Attitudes towards a putative Covid-19 vaccine have also been found to be affected by level of social media consumption: the most vaccine-resistant in Ireland and the UK are more likely to consume relatively more media content from social rather than traditional media sources. 8 These emerging findings are consistent with pre-pandemic studies of online social networks and vaccine hesitancy relating to parental vaccine hesitancy, 9 uptake of the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine, [10][11][12] and variable uptake of annual influenza vaccines. [13][14] Further studies have identified that social media interventions can encourage vaccine uptake, [15][16] or reduce traffic to anti-vaccination content.…”

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Mode and Frequency of Covid-19 Information Updates, Political Values, and Future Covid-19 Vaccine Attitudes

McAndrew¹,

Allington²

2020

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The effect of social media consumption on perceptions of the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic, attitudes to public health requirements, and intentions towards a future Covid-19 vaccine are of live public health interest. There are also public health and security concerns that the pandemic has been accompanied and arguably further amplified by an ‘infodemic’ spreading misinformation. Tests of the effect of social media consumption on future Covid-19 vaccine intentions using population samples have been relatively few to date. This study contributes to the evidence base by examining social media consumption and vaccine intentions using British and US population samples.Methods: Data were gathered on 1,663 GB adults and 1,198 US adults from an online panel on attitudes towards a future vaccine alongside self-reported social and legacy broadcast and print media consumption. Ordered and binomial logit models were used to assess reported intentions regarding a future Covid-19 vaccine, testing the effects of media consumption type. Respondents were categorised in terms of their media consumption using a fourfold typology, as less frequent social, less frequent legacy media consumers (low-low); high social, low legacy media consumers (high-low); low social, high legacy (low-high); and high social, high legacy (high-high).Results: In the British sample, regression results indicate that those who receive Covid-19 updates more frequently via legacy media (low-high), and those being updated more than daily via both online and legacy media consumers, tend to provide significantly less Covid-19 vaccine-hesitant responses than low-low consumers. There is no significant difference between high social, low legacy media consumers and low-low consumers. In the US sample, membership of the low-high group is associated with lower Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy compared with low-low consumers. However, respondents consuming both social and legacy media several times daily exhibit similar vaccine intentions on average to those consuming social media daily and legacy media less often, providing a contrast with the UK sample. We also identify differences in Covid-19 vaccine intentions relating to demographics and political values.Conclusions: Differences in vaccine attentions are associated with the extent and balance of consumption of news relating to Covid-19 and its source. Political values and ethnic identity also appear to structure attitudes to a putative future Covid-19 vaccine.

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It just doesn’t feel right– the relevance of emotions and intuition for parental vaccine conspiracy beliefs and vaccination uptake

Cited by 90 publications

References 53 publications

Self-reported changes in anxiety, depression and suicidality during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece

Self-reported changes in anxiety, depression and suicidality during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece

University students’ changes in mental health status and determinants of behavior during the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece

Mode and Frequency of Covid-19 Information Updates, Political Values, and Future Covid-19 Vaccine Attitudes

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