Trusting COVID-19 vaccines as individual and social goal

Falcone, Rino; Ansani, Alessandro; Colì, Elisa; Marini, Marco; Sapienza, Alessandro; Castelfranchi, Cristiano; Paglieri, Fabio

doi:10.1038/s41598-022-13675-3

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“…However, only views of vaccines as a collective choice to protect others accounted for variance in willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine, over and above the effects of sociodemographic characteristics. This finding replicates existing work showing that viewing vaccines as prosocial, but not self‐protective, is associated with increased willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine (Falcone et al., 2022). Individuals may not expect to be personally impacted by contracting COVID‐19, yet are willing to receive a vaccine due to concern for others at higher risk; indeed, other work has found that greater perceived risk to others, but not to self, was associated with increased intentions to vaccinate (Sherman et al., 2021).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine

Davisson

Hoyle

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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We examined the association between sociodemographic factors, views of vaccines as being an individual choice to protect oneself versus a collective choice to protect others, general vaccine hesitancy, and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine. In a sample of adults (N = 619; 33% non‐white), we showed that demographic factors explain significant variance in both vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine. Viewing vaccines as an individual choice to protect oneself explained additional variance in vaccine hesitancy. However, people who viewed vaccines as a collective choice to protect others showed both less vaccine hesitancy and greater willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine. These findings suggest that promoting prosocial attitudes about vaccinations may decrease vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccine uptake.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine

Davisson

Hoyle

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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“…Indeed, the pandemic brought to light the interdependencies between people and countries, hence people have become more aware that the achievement of their personal goals depends, now more than ever, on the choices made by other society members. 62 However, as reported in another study, the correlation between vaccine acceptance and psychological distress should not be exploited to promote vaccine acceptance by stoking fears, stress, and anxiety in the general population. 38 Rather, it is likely that the extremely and highly affected subgroups are more sensitive to community issues, while less affected people may be characterized by a more self-centered attitude and perception of the consequences of the pandemic.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…These results, are in line with literature reporting that trust in information, in informative sources and in institution is a crucial mediator in determining willingness to accept vaccine. 62–65 Mistrust of official information may be indicative of a conspiracy mind-set perceiving evidence that vaccines are helpful as misleading and covering up evidence that vaccines are harmful. 65 Conspiracy theories and mistrust have greater appeal on younger-age and low-income population as also demonstrated by others.…”

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confidence: 99%

Are psychological status and trust in information related to vaccine hesitancy during COVID-19 pandemic? A latent class and mediation analyses in Italy

Maietti

Reno

Sanmarchi

et al. 2022

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

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Despite the recognized benefits of the COVID-19 vaccination, vaccine hesitancy (VH) remains one of the biggest challenges of the mass vaccination campaign. Most studies investigating VH determinants focused on socio-demographics and direct relationships. In this study, we aimed at: 1) identifying subgroups of people differently affected by the pandemic, in terms of psychological status; 2) investigating the role of psychological status and trust in information as possible mediators of the relationship between individual characteristics and VH. To this purpose, a latent class analysis (LCA) followed by a mediation analysis were carried out on data from a survey conducted in January 2021 on 1011 Italian citizens. LCA identified four different subgroups characterized by a differential psychological impact of the pandemic: the extremely affected (21.1%), the highly affected (49.1%), the moderately affected (21.8%) and the slightly affected (8%). We found that VH decreased with the increase of psychological impact (from 59.3% to 23.9%). In the mediation analysis, past vaccination refusal, age 45-54 years and lower-than-average income, were all indirectly related to higher VH through mistrust in COVID-19 information. Differently, the psychological impact counteracted the greater VH in females, the negative effect of social media among youngest (<35 years) and the negative effect of mistrust in the lower-than-average-income subgroup. Knowledge of psychological profile of hesitant individuals, their level of trust and the sources of information they access, together with their sociodemographic characteristics provides a more comprehensive picture of VH determinants that can be used by public health stakeholders to effectively design and adapt communication campaigns.

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic provided unusual circumstances in which we can test hypotheses about such changes. First, since COVID-19 vaccines were a new treatment for everyone, the uncertainty surrounding the related effects and side effects was higher [3], provided that higher expected probabilities of side effects of COVID-19 vaccines would discourage vaccination [4,5,6,7,8,9,8,10,11,12,13,14]. Second, a substantial subset of recipients experienced delayed localized hypersensitivity reactions to COVID-19 vaccines [15,16]; such reactions, collectively referred to as "COVID arm" have been objectively observed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Updated beliefs and shaken confidence: Evidence from vaccine hesitancy caused by experiencing "COVID arm"

Fukai

Kawata

Nakabayashi

2023

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Background Public health depends on both medical treatment development and the public’s willingness to take such treatment. To determine whether having experienced delayed localized hypersensitivity reactions to COVID-19 vaccines, i.e., “COVID arm” symptoms affect confidence in the safety of vaccination, willingness to take COVID-19 vaccines, and the acknowledgement of the importance of vaccination, and also confidence in science. Methods We implemented a panel survey on internet in February 2021 and March 2022 in Japan, before and after COVID-19 vaccines were administered to the public in Japan, and we used “COVID arm” symptoms, which are independent of one’s prior confidence in vaccination, as our instrument. Out of the non-probability sample of 15,000 respondents in the first wave in February 2021, 9,668 responded to the second wave conducted in March 2022. We used “COVID arm” symptoms as a natural experiment conditional on the background characteristics of the respondents. Main outcomes are whether having experienced “COVID arm” symptoms affected 1) confidence in the safety of vaccination; 2) willingness to take the next dose of COVID-19 vaccines, 3) acknowledgment of the importance of vaccination, and 4) confidence in science. Measures are marginal means of the probability of a positive reaction to each question. Results Experiencing “COVID arm” symptoms significantly lowered confidence in the safety of vaccination by 3.4 percentage points and the probability of taking a second and third dose of COVID-19 vaccine by 1.2 and 3.4 percentage points, respectively. Adverse impacts were observed regardless of prior confidence in vaccination. Experiencing such symptoms affected neither the acknowledged importance of vaccination nor confidence in science. Conclusions Updates to beliefs about side effects affected confidence in the safety of vaccination. Acknowledgment of vaccination importance and general confidence in science are likely to have factored in the uncertainty and to be tolerant of updates to one’s beliefs about side effects. Belief updates of specific treatments had asymmetric impacts on the treatment and medicine in general. Trial registration The design of the survey was preregistered with the American Economic Association’s RCT Registry [1].

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Trusting COVID-19 vaccines as individual and social goal

Cited by 17 publications

References 49 publications

Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine

Collective views of vaccination predict vaccine hesitancy and willingness to receive a COVID‐19 vaccine

Are psychological status and trust in information related to vaccine hesitancy during COVID-19 pandemic? A latent class and mediation analyses in Italy

Updated beliefs and shaken confidence: Evidence from vaccine hesitancy caused by experiencing "COVID arm"

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