Immediate and informative feedback during a pandemic: Using stated preference analysis to predict vaccine uptake rates.

ABSTRACT: In response to an emerging pandemic, there is urgent need for information regarding individual evaluation of risk and preferences toward mitigation strategies such as vaccinations. However, with social distancing policies and financial stress during an outbreak, traditional robust survey methodologies of face-to-face, probabilistic sampling, may not be feasible to deploy quickly, especially in developing countries. We recommend a protocol that calls for a sensitive survey design, acceptance of a web-based approach and adjustments for uncertainty of respondents, to deliver urgently needed information to policymakers as the public health crisis unfolds, rather than in its aftermath. This information is critical to tailor comprehensive vaccination campaigns that reach critical immunity thresh

SUBMITTER: Vasquez WF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8646631 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature