Vaccine decision making in New Zealand: a discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vaccine hesitancy is a significant threat to global health. A key part of addressing hesitancy is to ensure that public health messaging prioritises information that is considered important to the public. This study aimed to examine how different vaccine characteristics affect public preferences for vaccines in New Zealand, what trade-offs they are willing to make between different vaccine characteristics, and how their preferences are affected by their vaccine-related conspiracy beliefs and COVID-19 vaccination status.

Methods

An online discrete choice experiment (DCE) was designed to elicit individual preferences about vaccines using the 1000minds platform. Members of the general population of New Zealand aged ≥ 18 years were invited to complete the DCE. Partici

SUBMITTER: Chan AHY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10863187 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature