Adaptation and Validation of a French Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale.

ABSTRACT: Over the past decades, vaccination has proven to be largely beneficial to global health. Despite vaccine efficacy, the French population has been recently affected by more anti-vaccination attitudes and vaccine refusal, and it is therefore necessary to validate tools to study this health issue. The Vaccination Attitudes Examination scale (VAX) is a 12-item questionnaire targeting adults that assesses general attitudes towards vaccination. The aims of the study were to translate and adapt the original English version of the scale into French and to test the psychometric properties of the scale in a French-population-based sample of adults. We included 450 French speaking adults that completed the French VAX and other questionnaires to assess convergent and divergent validities. Exploratory

SUBMITTER: Eisenblaetter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10221281 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature