What causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom

Bullock, Josh; Lane, Justin E.; Shults, F. LeRon

doi:10.1057/s41599-022-01092-w

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“…In addition, we were not able to identify factors associated with the change in mental symptoms because of lack of assessment of other variables, which may explain the noticed changes such as COVID-19 fear/anxiety/trauma, perceived susceptibility, conspiracy beliefs, and sources of information on COVID-19 vaccine. The results of a nationally representative survey in the United Kingdom show that individuals are more willing to receive fictitious vaccines, which are putatively produced by the United States government Medicare program, than to take the Sputnik and Sinovac vaccines, which are produced by the Russian and Chinese governments [ 61 ]. Likewise, Italian adults expressed more trust in and less fear of Pfizer-BioNTech compared with Vaxzevria (AstraZeneca) [ 43 ].…”

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Emotional Reaction to the First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine: Postvaccination Decline in Anxiety and Stress among Anxious Individuals and Increase among Individuals with Normal Prevaccination Anxiety Levels

Al‐Amer

Malak

Burqan

et al. 2022

JPM

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Although vaccination has been adopted by the WHO to limit worldwide transmission of COVID-19, people’s worries about COVID-19 vaccines may suppress their desire for vaccination despite vaccine availability. This study aimed to investigate anxiety and stress symptoms among 250 Jordanians (mean age = 43.18 ± 6.34 years, 72% females) who received their first vaccine dose. The respondents completed the anxiety and stress subscales of the Depression Anxiety and Stress scale 21 (DASS-21) before and after vaccination. The respondents expressed more moderate–severe levels of stress before than after vaccination (20.8% and 13.2%, respectively). Meanwhile, 37.2% and 45.2% of the respondents expressed moderate–severe anxiety before and after vaccination, respectively. Wilcoxon signed-rank test revealed that the drop in the level of stress from before- (median (IQR) = 5 (1–8)) to after vaccination (median (IQR) = 3 (1–7)) was statistically significant (z = −3.81, p = 0.001, r = 0.17) while the increase in anxiety was not. Anxiety significantly dropped postvaccination among individuals experiencing mild to severe anxiety before vaccination. Similarly, stress and anxiety significantly increased among individuals expressing normal anxiety before vaccination (z = −3.57 and −8.24, p values = 0.001, r = 0.16 and 0.37, respectively). Age positively correlated with postvaccination anxiety among respondents with mild prevaccination anxiety, and it negatively correlated with the prevaccination level of stress in the normal-anxiety group. Gender, marital status, respondents’ level of education, and history of COVID-19 infection had no significant correlation with anxiety or stress at either point of measurement. Overcoming their hesitancy to receive COVID-19 vaccines, individuals with normal levels of anxiety experienced a rise in their distress symptoms following immunization. On the contrary, vaccination seemed to desensitize anxious individuals. Policymakers need to formulate a population-specific plan to increase vaccine preparedness and promote psychological well-being over all during the pandemic.

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Emotional Reaction to the First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine: Postvaccination Decline in Anxiety and Stress among Anxious Individuals and Increase among Individuals with Normal Prevaccination Anxiety Levels

Al‐Amer

Malak

Burqan

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JPM

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“…The rollout of vast vaccination campaigns also generates the main issue of hesitancy and resistance to vaccines in a share of people, which is a social aspect associated with individual freedoms in rich and democratic countries (cf., Coccia, 2022a , 2022b ; Verger and Peretti-Watel, 2021 ). Many studies have investigated these topics to reduce hesitancy and increase the vaccinations in countries, such as Bullock et al (2022) argue that vaccine hesitancy among people is due to anxiety rather than familiarity with vaccines. Patterson et al2022 show that the acceptability of COVID-19 vaccine can be low because of issues concerning the uncertainty about safety of vaccines, the respect of personal rights, poor communication policies, etc.…”

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Improving preparedness for next pandemics: Max level of COVID-19 vaccinations without social impositions to design effective health policy and avoid flawed democracies

Coccia

2022

Environmental Research

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“…On the other hand, targeting specific subpopulations before others can be perceived negatively by the public. Subpopulations offered the vaccine early on might hesitate to comply for fear of side effects (53); alternatively, sup- populations vaccinated later on may feel discriminated against (54).…”

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Assessing COVID-19 vaccination strategies in varied demographics using an individual-based model

Ben-Zuk

Daon

Sasson

et al. 2022

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Background: New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are constantly discovered. Administration of COVID-19 vaccines and booster doses, combined with applications of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), is often used to prevent outbreaks of emerging variants. Such outbreak dynamics are further complicated by the population's behavior and demographic composition. Hence, realistic simulations are needed to estimate the efficiency of proposed vaccination strategies in conjunction with NPIs. Methods: We developed an individual-based model of COVID-19 dynamics that considers age-dependent parameters such as contact matrices, probabilities of symptomatic and severe disease, and households' age distribution. As a case study, we simulate outbreak dynamics under the demographic compositions of two Israeli cities with different household sizes and age distributions. We compare two vaccination strategies: vaccinate individuals in a currently prioritized age group, or dynamically prioritize neighborhoods with a high estimated reproductive number. Total infections and hospitalizations are used to compare the efficiency of the vaccination strategies under the two demographic structures, in conjunction with different NPIs. Results: We demonstrate the effectiveness of vaccination strategies targeting highly infected localities and of NPIs actively detecting asymptomatic infections. We further show that there are different optimal vaccination strategies for each demographic composition of sub-populations, and that their application is superior to a uniformly applied strategy. Conclusion: Our study emphasizes the importance of tailoring vaccination strategies to subpopulations' infection rates and to the unique characteristics of their demographics (e.g., household size and age distributions). The presented simulation framework and our findings can help better design future responses against the following emerging variants.

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What causes COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy? Ignorance and the lack of bliss in the United Kingdom

Cited by 39 publications

References 22 publications

Emotional Reaction to the First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine: Postvaccination Decline in Anxiety and Stress among Anxious Individuals and Increase among Individuals with Normal Prevaccination Anxiety Levels

Emotional Reaction to the First Dose of COVID-19 Vaccine: Postvaccination Decline in Anxiety and Stress among Anxious Individuals and Increase among Individuals with Normal Prevaccination Anxiety Levels

Improving preparedness for next pandemics: Max level of COVID-19 vaccinations without social impositions to design effective health policy and avoid flawed democracies

Assessing COVID-19 vaccination strategies in varied demographics using an individual-based model

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