Vaccine hesitancy: evidence from an adverse events following immunization database, and the role of cognitive biases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Vaccine hesitancy has been a growing challenge for public health in recent decades. Among factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy, concerns regarding vaccine safety and Adverse Events (AEs) play the leading role. Moreover, cognitive biases are critical in connecting such concerns to vaccine hesitancy behaviors, but their role has not been comprehensively studied. In this study, our first objective is to address concerns regarding vaccine AEs to increase vaccine acceptance. Our second objective is to identify the potential cognitive biases connecting vaccine hesitancy concerns to vaccine-hesitant behaviors and identify the mechanism they get triggered in the vaccine decision-making process.

Methods

First, to mitigate concerns regarding AEs, we quantitatively anal

SUBMITTER: Azarpanah H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8444164 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature