Modification and validation of a vaccine hesitancy scale for adolescent COVID-19 vaccination.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vaccine hesitancy is an urgent public health threat. While tools have been developed to monitor vaccine hesitancy among parents and the general adult population, no such tool exists for adolescents.

Methods

We modified an existing adult Vaccine Hesitancy Scale to create a teen COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (tVHS-COVID) for adolescents and their parents. To validate our scale, we conducted a nationally representative survey of 764 parent-teen dyads. We performed exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to determine the factor structure followed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to test the factor structure validity using two random subsets. We evaluated internal consistency by Cronbach alpha values and construct validity by comparing tVHS-COVID scores to intention

SUBMITTER: Regan AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11753956 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature