Malaysian public preferences and decision making for COVID-19 vaccination: A discrete choice experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low vaccine uptake has the potential to seriously undermine COVID-19 vaccination programs, as very high coverage levels are likely to be needed for virus suppression to return life to normal. We aimed to determine the influence of vaccine attributes (including access costs) on COVID-19 vaccination preferences among the Malaysian public to improve national uptake.

Methods

An online Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) was conducted on a representative sample of 2028 Malaysians. Respondents were asked to make vaccination decisions in a series of hypothetical scenarios. A nested, mixed logit model was used to estimate the preferences for vaccination over vaccine refusal and for how those preferences varied between different sub-populations. The attributes were the risk o

SUBMITTER: Teh HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9359905 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature