Vaccine confidence in China after the Changsheng vaccine incident: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:China's achievements in immunization are being threatened by a vaccine crisis. This paper aims to investigate vaccine confidence in China after the Changsheng vaccine incident and attempts to identify the factors contributing to it. METHODS:An online cross-sectional investigation was conducted from 1 to 25 September 2018. Descriptive analysis and logistic regression were performed to examine the associations between socio-demographic factors, cognition and attitudes towards the Changsheng vaccine incident and vaccine confidence. RESULTS:We included 1115 respondents in the final analysis, and found that approximately 70% (783) of the respondents did not have vaccine confidence. More than half of the respondents (54.53%) were dissatisfied with the government's response measures to

SUBMITTER: Liu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6880575 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature