COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance: Correlates in a nationally representative longitudinal survey of the Australian population

High levels of vaccination coverage in populations will be required even with vaccines that have high levels of effectiveness to prevent and stop outbreaks of coronavirus. The World Health Organisation has suggested that governments take a proactive response to vaccine hesitancy 'hotspots'...

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Vydáno v:	PloS one Ročník 16; číslo 3; s. e0248892
Hlavní autoři:	Edwards, Ben, Biddle, Nicholas, Gray, Matthew, Sollis, Kate
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	United States Public Library of Science 24.03.2021 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Témata:	Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Attitudes Australia - epidemiology Biology and Life Sciences Confidence Coronaviruses Correlation analysis COVID-19 COVID-19 - epidemiology COVID-19 - prevention & control COVID-19 - psychology COVID-19 vaccines COVID-19 Vaccines - administration & dosage Demographics Disease hot spots Editing Epidemics Female Health attitudes Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Humans Longitudinal Studies Male Medicine and Health Sciences Methods Middle Aged Pandemics Pandemics - prevention & control Patient Acceptance of Health Care - psychology Patient Acceptance of Health Care - statistics & numerical data Political attitudes Politics Population Public health Public Health - trends Research and Analysis Methods Reviews SARS-CoV-2 - immunology Social behavior Social research Social Sciences Surveys Surveys and Questionnaires - statistics & numerical data Vaccination Vaccination - statistics & numerical data Vaccination Refusal - psychology Vaccination Refusal - statistics & numerical data Vaccine hesitancy Vaccines Viral diseases Australia United Kingdom > UK Melbourne Victoria Australia
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Shrnutí:	High levels of vaccination coverage in populations will be required even with vaccines that have high levels of effectiveness to prevent and stop outbreaks of coronavirus. The World Health Organisation has suggested that governments take a proactive response to vaccine hesitancy 'hotspots' based on social and behavioural insights. Representative longitudinal online survey of over 3000 adults from Australia that examines the demographic, attitudinal, political and social attitudes and COVID-19 health behavior correlates of vaccine hesitance and resistance to a COVID-19 vaccine. Overall, 59% would definitely get the vaccine, 29% had low levels of hesitancy, 7% had high levels of hesitancy and 6% were resistant. Females, those living in disadvantaged areas, those who reported that risks of COVID-19 was overstated, those who had more populist views and higher levels of religiosity were more likely to be hesitant or resistant while those who had higher levels of household income, those who had higher levels of social distancing, who downloaded the COVID-Safe App, who had more confidence in their state or territory government or confidence in their hospitals, or were more supportive of migration were more likely to intend to get vaccinated. Our findings suggest that vaccine hesitancy, which accounts for a significant proportion of the population can be addressed by public health messaging but for a significant minority of the population with strongly held beliefs, alternative policy measures may well be needed to achieve sufficient vaccination coverage to end the pandemic.
Bibliografie:	ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0248892