Prevalence and Predictors of Intention to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 in Thirteen Latin American and Caribbean Countries

Caycho‐Rodríguez, Tomás; Valencia, Pablo D.; Vilca, Lindsey W.; Carbajal-León, Carlos; Vivanco-Vidal, Andrea; Saroli-Araníbar, Daniela; Reyes-Bossio, Mario; White, Michael; Rojas-Jara, Claudio; Polanco-Carrasco, Roberto; Gallegos, Miguel; Cervigni, Mauricio; Martino, Pablo; Palacios, Diego Alejandro; Moreta-Herrera, Rodrigo; Samaniego-Pinho, Antonio; Lobos-Rivera, Marlon Elías; Ferrari, Ilka Franco; Flores-Mendoza, Carmen; Figares, Andrés Buschiazzo; Puerta-Cortés, Diana Ximena; Corrales-Reyes, Ibraín Enrique; Calderón, Raymundo; Pinto, Bismarck; Gallegos, Walter Lizandro Arias; Intimayta‐Escalante, Claudio

doi:10.1007/s43076-022-00170-x

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“…A higher score on the single question would express a greater intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of single-item measures to assess intention to be vaccinated has been widespread ( 69 , 70 ).…”

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Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries

Caycho‐Rodríguez

Valencia

Ventura-León

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Front. Public Health

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AimsOver the past 2 years, the vaccine conspiracy beliefs construct has been used in a number of different studies. These publications have assessed the determinants and outcomes of vaccine conspiracy beliefs using, in some cases, pooled data from different countries, and compared the results across these contexts. However, studies often do not consider measurement invariance as a necessary requirement for comparative analyses. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop and evaluate the cross-cultural MI of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 12 Latin American countries.MethodsConfirmatory factor analysis, item response theory analysis and alignment method were applied to test measurement invariance in a large number of groups.ResultsThe COVID-VCBS showed robust psychometric properties and measurement invariance for both factor loadings and crosstabs. Also, a higher level of acceptance of conspiracy beliefs about vaccines is necessary to respond to higher response categories. Similarly, greater acceptance of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines was related to a lower intention to be vaccinated.ConclusionThe results allow for improved understanding of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines in the countries assessed; furthermore, they provide researchers and practitioners with an invariant measure that they can use in cross-cultural studies in Latin America. However, further studies are needed to test invariance in other countries, with the goal of developing a truly international measure of conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines.

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Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries

Caycho‐Rodríguez

Valencia

Ventura-León

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Front. Public Health

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“…However, a new study has just been published on the intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in 13 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, whose data, collected directly from the Latin American population, serve as a contrast to the data used in other studies. 5 …”

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“…These variations may be related to the number of people surveyed. The study by Sallan et al (2) used results from Urganga-Pastor et al, 4 where samples exceeded thousands of people; meanwhile, in the study by Caycho-Rodríguez et al 5 the samples ranged from 300 to 800 participants for each country. Likewise, the study of Urganga-Pastor 4 had the participation of 20 countries; and in Caycho-Rodríguez et al, 5 13 countries participated.…”

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“…The study by Sallan et al (2) used results from Urganga-Pastor et al, 4 where samples exceeded thousands of people; meanwhile, in the study by Caycho-Rodríguez et al 5 the samples ranged from 300 to 800 participants for each country. Likewise, the study of Urganga-Pastor 4 had the participation of 20 countries; and in Caycho-Rodríguez et al, 5 13 countries participated. The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean had different degrees of success or failure in managing the pandemic and vaccinating their populations.…”

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“…Given the variation in intentions in the percentage of people who intended to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some strategic lines of research can be suggested. First, the studies by Urganga-Pastor et al, 4 and Caycho-Rodríguez et al, 5 used a single question that may not capture all aspects of the intention to be vaccinated. Therefore, addressing the methodological problem regarding the measurement of the intention to be vaccinated would allow a better evaluation of the intention to be vaccinated.…”

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COVID-19 vaccination process in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Gallegos

White

2023

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Network analysis of the relationships between conspiracy beliefs towards COVID-19 vaccine and symptoms of fear of COVID-19 in a sample of latin american countries

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The present study examined how conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines specifically relate to symptoms of fear of COVID-19 in a sample of four South American countries. A total of 1785 people from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru participated, responding to a sociodemographic survey, the Fear of COVID-19 scale (FCV-19 S) and the Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale-COVID-19 (VCBS-COVID-19). Network analysis identified the most important symptoms of fear and conspiracy beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines (nodes) and the associations between them (edges). In addition, the robustness of the network of these indicators of centrality and the possible differences in the structure and connectivity of the networks between the four countries were evaluated. The results suggest that the nodes with the highest centrality were items 2 and 5 of the FCV-19 S and item 2 of the VCBS-COVID-19. Likewise, item 6 is the belief that most predicts conspiracy beliefs about vaccines against COVID-19; while item 6 was the symptom that most predicts fear of COVID-19. The findings strongly support cross-cultural similarities in the networks across the four countries rather than differences. Although it was expected that a higher presence of symptoms of fear of COVID-19 may lead people to compensate for their fear by believing in conspiratorial ideas about vaccines and, consequently, rejecting the COVID-19 vaccine, the results do not clearly show this relationship. This could lead other researchers to generate evidence to explain the differences between Latin American countries and countries in other contexts in terms of vaccination rates. This evidence could be useful to develop policies favoring vaccination against COVID-19 that are more contextualized to the Latin American region, characterized by social instability and economic recession during the pandemic.

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Prevalence and Predictors of Intention to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 in Thirteen Latin American and Caribbean Countries

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References 94 publications

Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries

Design and Cross-Cultural Invariance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (COVID-VCBS) in 13 Latin American Countries

COVID-19 vaccination process in Latin America and the Caribbean

Network analysis of the relationships between conspiracy beliefs towards COVID-19 vaccine and symptoms of fear of COVID-19 in a sample of latin american countries

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