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Do conspiracy theory and mistrust undermine people's intention to receive the COVID‐19 vaccine in Austria?

Conspiracy theories flourish during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic especially regarding vaccinations. As the vaccination reluctancy in Austria is high, it is important to understand the antecedents of vaccination intention at the preapproval stage of the vaccination process. An onl...

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Autores principales: Knobel, Phil, Zhao, Xiang, White, Katherine M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34551127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22714
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description Conspiracy theories flourish during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic especially regarding vaccinations. As the vaccination reluctancy in Austria is high, it is important to understand the antecedents of vaccination intention at the preapproval stage of the vaccination process. An online survey was conducted in August 2020 in Austria with 217 primarily younger, female, educated participants. A two‐step cluster analysis resulted in a sceptics cluster with a clear antivaccination tendency along with a right‐wing political position, lower trust in general vaccines and lower education levels and the reference cluster. A considerable percentage of participants reported their reluctancy to have a COVID‐19 vaccine. Although vaccination intention can be explained by attitude and subjective norm, this decision‐making process is undermined by underlying factors such as conspiracy ideation and political position. Policy makers and health interventionists should take political background into consideration in efforts to increase vaccine compliance.
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spelling pubmed-86562882021-12-09 Do conspiracy theory and mistrust undermine people's intention to receive the COVID‐19 vaccine in Austria? Knobel, Phil Zhao, Xiang White, Katherine M. J Community Psychol Research Articles Conspiracy theories flourish during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic especially regarding vaccinations. As the vaccination reluctancy in Austria is high, it is important to understand the antecedents of vaccination intention at the preapproval stage of the vaccination process. An online survey was conducted in August 2020 in Austria with 217 primarily younger, female, educated participants. A two‐step cluster analysis resulted in a sceptics cluster with a clear antivaccination tendency along with a right‐wing political position, lower trust in general vaccines and lower education levels and the reference cluster. A considerable percentage of participants reported their reluctancy to have a COVID‐19 vaccine. Although vaccination intention can be explained by attitude and subjective norm, this decision‐making process is undermined by underlying factors such as conspiracy ideation and political position. Policy makers and health interventionists should take political background into consideration in efforts to increase vaccine compliance. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-09-22 2022-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8656288/ /pubmed/34551127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22714 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Journal of Community Psychology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Do conspiracy theory and mistrust undermine people's intention to receive the COVID‐19 vaccine in Austria?
title_fullStr Do conspiracy theory and mistrust undermine people's intention to receive the COVID‐19 vaccine in Austria?
title_full_unstemmed Do conspiracy theory and mistrust undermine people's intention to receive the COVID‐19 vaccine in Austria?
title_short Do conspiracy theory and mistrust undermine people's intention to receive the COVID‐19 vaccine in Austria?
title_sort do conspiracy theory and mistrust undermine people's intention to receive the covid‐19 vaccine in austria?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8656288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34551127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22714
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