Planning for a COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign: The Role of Social Norms, Trust, Knowledge, and Vaccine Attitudes

Thaker, Jagadish

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“…Relatively, subjects had a high positive attitude toward COVID-19 with a mean score of 24.6 out of 30 on the attitude scale. These results are similar to those of other published studies [5,[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][24][25][26][27]30], likely because the government in Jordan has devoted serious standing to the epidemic and adopted strict prevention and control measures promptly against the disease after the outbreak. Moreover, with the COVID-19 pandemic and media reports, the public in Jordan understands the severity of the epidemic.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…Recent studies on COVID-19 revealed that knowledge [5,9,13] might account for the precautionary actions of the general public. In addition, the results of previous studies revealed that a better level of knowledge is positively associated with the practice of preventive measures [13][14][15][16][17][18], and attitudes also associate positively with preventive behaviors [9,[13][14][15][16][17][18].…”

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confidence: 95%

“…A scale consisting of 18 items was used to measure the knowledge about the COVID-19. The research team developed the items based on a literature review and the previous studies measuring knowledge about COVID-19 [13][14][15][16][17][18]. These items covered knowledge of the signs and symptoms, transmission, prevention, and treatment of COVID-19.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Web-Based Study of Differences in Jordanian People’s Knowledge and Attitudes toward COVID-19

2021

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Background: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a worldwide public health issue. Adequate knowledge, a positive attitude, and appropriate control of COVID-19 are essential to eradicate the disease. People's knowledge of and attitudes toward COVID-19 should be analyzed and explained; this helps decision-makers understand the general public knowledge about the disease. The attitudes of the general public are necessary to implement measures to stop the spread of the disease. Thus, this study aimed to describe people's knowledge about and attitudes toward COVID-19 and compare both concepts based on subjects' characteristics. Methods: This cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted in January 2021. The snowball sampling method was used.Results: A total of 281 adult subjects participated in this study. Most participants demonstrated good knowledge and a positive attitude (80.5% and 77.11%) towards the COVID-19, respectively. Better knowledge about COVID-19 was among older age, females, and highly educated subjects. A significantly positive attitude towards the COVID-19 was among married subjects and subjects who had health insurance. Conclusions:The findings are relevant for the evaluation of the knowledge and attitudes of the general public. Knowledge is a crucial factor for shaping people's attitudes, but this is influenced by various factors related to people's knowledge and attitudes. Thus, continuous and updated learning efforts are still required from the overall public. This study provided valuable insights into how public health initiatives can better protect the population's health during public health emergencies.

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A Web-Based Study of Differences in Jordanian People’s Knowledge and Attitudes toward COVID-19

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“…In order to achieve an effective and efficient vaccination outcome against COVID-19, building trust and increasing awareness among health professionals is an important step to receive COVID-19 vaccine to prevent transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic. 13 …”

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Knowledge and Attitude Towards Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Among Health Professionals Working at Public Health Facilities in a Low Income Country

Ahmed¹,

Siraj²,

Klein³

et al. 2021

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Background Several vaccines have been approved in a lot of countries to combat coronavirus disease and distributed throughout the world. Health professional’s knowledge and attitude towards a second COVID-19 vaccine dose were poorly implemented and understood in Ethiopia's health facilities. The main purpose of conducting this study was to investigate health professionals’ knowledge and attitude towards the second COVID-19 vaccine dose at public hospitals in Ethiopia. Methods A cross-sectional study design was conducted from January to March, 2021 to assess the knowledge and attitude towards second COVID-19 vaccine dose among health professionals working at public health facilities in Ethiopia. A multivariable logistic regression was performed to identify predictors that correlate with knowledge and attitude towards a second COVID-19 vaccine dose with a P -value<0.05 as a cut-off point for statistical significance at 95% confidence interval (CI). Results Four hundred and nine study subjects participated, with a response rate of 96.7%. In this study, more than half of the respondents had high knowledge towards second COVID-19 vaccine doses. Similarly, 95.6% of respondents had a favorable attitude towards second COVID-19 vaccine doses. Educational status (AOR=1.82, 95% CI=1.1–2.2), age (AOR=2.01, 95% CI=1.76–3.01), and profession (AOR=2.32, 95% CI=1.42–3.01) were variables associated with knowledge towards second COVID-19 vaccine doses. Educational status (AOR=5.42, 95% CI=4.1–6.7), age (AOR=12.4, 95% CI=10.54–15.8), professionals (AOR=4.33, 95% CI=2.32–6.87), working experience (AOR=4.33, 95% CI=2.32–6.87), marital status (AOR=2.47, 95% CI=1.33–5.95), risk degree (AOR=2.33, 95% CI=1.31–4.11) and gender (AOR=3.42, 95% CI=2.91–4.98) were determinant factors of attitude towards the second COVID-19 vaccine dose. Conclusion Addressing problems related with risk degree, educational status, and socio-demographic factors will help to increase the overall knowledge and attitude towards second COVID-19 vaccine doses.

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“…The idea that social norms drive health behaviors has guided research in public health generally (5,6) and on vaccination speci cally (7,8). Studies from COVID-19 nd that people are more likely to vaccinate (9)(10)(11)(12), wash their hands (13,14), wear masks (15), stay at home (14), and social distance (13,(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20) the more they believe that other people engage in these preventive behaviors.…”

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The influence of social norms varies with “others” groups: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination intentions

Rabb¹,

Bowers²,

Wilson³

et al. 2021

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The theory that health behaviors spread through social groups implies that efforts to control the pandemic through vaccination will succeed if people believe that others in their groups are getting vaccinated. But “others” can refer to many (often overlapping) groups, such as one’s family, neighborhood, city, state, or political party. These distinctions and their relationship to behavior are understudied in the social norms and public health literature. One challenge to studying them is that many factors may confound making inferences from observed relationships between perceived social norms (what people believe others do) and intended behaviors (what people themselves will do) because there are often plausible common causes for both. For example, vaccination intentions and perceptions of one’s social group’s intentions could both increase with age, since age is a known COVID-19 risk factor and people may know more people in their own age groups. We address these issues by applying a matched design that approximates pair-randomized experiments to survey data collected in the US during late fall 2020 (N = 890) and spring 2021 (N = 996). We find that a strong relationship between perceived vaccination social norms and vaccination intentions remains when controlling for a host of real risk factors as well as dimensions known to predict COVID-19 preventive behaviors even though they are not associated with risk. The strength of the relationship declines as the queried social group grows larger and more heterogeneous. The relationship for co-partisans is second in magnitude to that of family and friends among Republicans but undetectable for Democrats. Sensitivity analysis shows that these relationships could be explained away only by an unmeasured variable with large effects on both social norms perceptions and vaccination intentions (odds ratios between two and nineteen times), and a prediction from the false consensus interpretation that intentions cause perceived social norms is not supported. We discuss the implications for public health policy and understanding social norms.

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Planning for a COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign: The Role of Social Norms, Trust, Knowledge, and Vaccine Attitudes

Cited by 16 publications

References 33 publications

A Web-Based Study of Differences in Jordanian People’s Knowledge and Attitudes toward COVID-19

A Web-Based Study of Differences in Jordanian People’s Knowledge and Attitudes toward COVID-19

Knowledge and Attitude Towards Second COVID-19 Vaccine Dose Among Health Professionals Working at Public Health Facilities in a Low Income Country

The influence of social norms varies with “others” groups: Evidence from COVID-19 vaccination intentions

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