Overview of Tools and Measures Investigating Vaccine Hesitancy in a Ten Year Period: A Scoping Review

Abstract

The challenge of vaccine hesitancy, a growing global concern in the last decade, has been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for monitoring vaccine sentiments and early detection of vaccine hesitancy in a population recommended by the WHO calls for the availability of contextually relevant tools and measures. This scoping review covers a ten year-period from 2010–2019 which included the first nine years of the decade of vaccines and aims to give a broad overview of tools and measures, and present a summary of their nature, similarities, and differences. We conducted the review using the framework for scoping reviews by Arksey and O’Malley (2005) and reported it following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews’ guidelines. Of the 26 studies included, only one was conducted in the WHO African Region. Measures for routine childhood vaccines were found to be the most preponderant in the reviewed literature. The need for validated, contextually relevant tools in the WHO Africa Region is essential, and made more so by the scourge of the ongoing pandemic in which vaccination is critical for curtailment.

A systematic review of measures of healthcare workers’ vaccine confidence

“…In a scoping review of validated tools to measure vaccine hesitancy from 2010 to 2019, the authors found 26 articles that mostly focused on parent perceptions of routine childhood immunizations and none on validating tools among HCWs. 21 The studies presented in our systematic review help to fill the gap between the validated tools on HCW vaccine confidence. 21 , 41 …”

“… 21 The studies presented in our systematic review help to fill the gap between the validated tools on HCW vaccine confidence. 21 , 41 …”

“…Validation promotes reliable, accurate, and effective tools for measuring the complex constructs of vaccine behaviors among this important population. 21 , 22 The process often involves rigorous statistical and methodological evaluation, as well as cross-cultural adaptations to ensure the tools’ appropriateness in various contexts. 21 Tool validation is therefore important to ensure that the data collected reflect the unique characteristics and dynamics of HCW vaccine confidence.…”

First Year of Special Issue “New Insights in Vaccination and Public Health”: Opinions and Considerations

“…Several topics were addressed in the Special Issue “New Insights in Vaccination and Public Health” in its first year of publication. Many of these explored the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy [ 17 , 20 , 23 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 30 , 31 , 32 ] and, in particular, the acceptability of the COVID-19 vaccine [ 17 , 25 , 26 , 30 , 31 ] and the anti-influenza vaccine [ 23 , 28 , 33 ]. The role of ICTs was examined in relation to their influence on health choices [ 21 , 23 , 30 ] and in relation to the use of new technologies in the field of vaccinology [ 19 ].…”

Progress on innate immune evasion and live attenuated vaccine of pseudorabies virus

“…Vaccination is one of the most effective strategies against infectious diseases (Jordan et al, 2022;Oduwole et al, 2022). The success of the PRV eradication campaign is mainly attributed to the application of the excellent PRV vaccine (McFerran and Dow, 1970;Sun et al, 2016;Freuling et al, 2017).…”