Attitudes towards vaccines and intention to vaccinate against COVID-19: Implications for public health communications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Negative attitudes towards vaccines and an uncertainty or unwillingness to receive vaccinations are major barriers to managing the COVID-19 pandemic in the long-term. We estimate predictors of four domains of negative attitudes towards vaccines and identify groups most at risk of uncertainty and unwillingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in a large sample of UK adults.

Methods

Data were cross-sectional and from 32,361 adults in the UCL COVID-19 Social Study. Ordinary least squares regression analyses examined the impact of socio-demographic and COVID-19 related factors on four types of negative vaccine attitudes: mistrust of vaccine benefit, worries about unforeseen effects, concerns about commercial profiteering, and preference for natural immunity. Multinomial

SUBMITTER: Paul E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7834475 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature