Individual preferences for COVID-19 vaccination in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vaccinations are an effective choice to stop disease outbreaks, including COVID-19. There is little research on individuals' COVID-19 vaccination decision-making.

Objective

We aimed to determine individual preferences for COVID-19 vaccinations in China, and to assess the factors influencing vaccination decision-making to facilitate vaccination coverage.

Methods

A D-efficient discrete choice experiment was conducted across six Chinese provinces selected by the stratified random sampling method. Vaccine choice sets were constructed using seven attributes: vaccine effectiveness, side-effects, accessibility, number of doses, vaccination sites, duration of vaccine protection, and proportion of acquaintances vaccinated. Conditional logit and latent class models w

SUBMITTER: Leng A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7719001 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature