Oxford Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (OVHS): a UK-based and US-based online mixed-methods psychometric development and validation study of an instrument to assess vaccine hesitancy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the development, validation and reliability of the Oxford Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (OVHS), a new instrument to assess vaccine hesitancy in the general population.

Design

Cross-sectional validation study.

Setting

Internet-based study with participants in the UK and USA.

Participants

Demographically representative (stratified by age, sex and race) samples from the UK and USA recruited through the Prolific Academic platform.

Main outcome measures

To demonstrate OVHS development, exploratory factor analysis with categorical variables and a polychoric correlation matrix followed by promax oblique rotation on the UK sample was performed. Confirmatory factor analysis with a Satorra-Bentler scaled test statistic evaluating goodness of fit s

SUBMITTER: Kantor J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11474876 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature