Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Immunization is a critical tool in the fight against infectious disease epidemics. Understanding hesitancy towards immunization is even more important nowadays, with the continuous threat of COVID-19 pandemic. Medical conspiracy beliefs, scientific skepticism, as well as low trust in governmental institutions, and evidence-based knowledge all have troubling effects on immunization.

Objective

To examine how these factors cross-react to influence vaccine behavior against any vaccine preventable disease (VPD), we hypothesized a model consisting of the belief in conspiracy theories as the predictor, and as the mediators subjective and objective vaccine knowledge, and trust in the health care system and science. The model was tested by examining the vaccine intentions f

SUBMITTER: Milosevic Đorđevic J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8634900 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature