Association between Covid-19 sources of information, beliefs, and vaccination rates: an EU-wide survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Misinformation hampers vaccine uptake. The European Union (EU) employed a coordinated effort to curb misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this context, we investigated relationships between sources of information, vaccine safety/effectiveness, satisfaction with government vaccination strategy, and vaccination intent.

Methods

We used cross-sectional survey data (May 2021) from Flash Eurobarometer 494, a population-adjusted dataset comprised of a representative sample of those ≥15 years from 27 EU nations. We employed a latent class analysis to create clusters of information sources as the independent variable and beliefs in vaccine safety/efficacy, satisfaction with government vaccination strategy, and vaccine intent as four outcome variables. We first e

SUBMITTER: De la Cruz-Sanchez E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10567234 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature