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Use of a language intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy
Vaccine hesitancy is a major global challenge facing COVID-19 immunization programs. Its main source is low public trust in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. In a preregistered experimental study, we investigated how using a foreign language when communicating COVID-19 vaccine information...
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2022
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description | Vaccine hesitancy is a major global challenge facing COVID-19 immunization programs. Its main source is low public trust in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. In a preregistered experimental study, we investigated how using a foreign language when communicating COVID-19 vaccine information influences vaccine acceptance. Hong Kong Chinese residents (N = 611) received COVID-19 vaccine information either in their native Chinese or in English. English increased trust in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine and, as a result, reduced vaccine hesitancy. This indicates that language can impact vaccine attitudes and demonstrate the potential of language interventions for a low cost, actionable strategy to curtail vaccine hesitancy amongst bilingual populations. Language interventions could contribute towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of health and well-being. |
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spelling | pubmed-87420252022-01-11 Use of a language intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy Geipel, Janet Grant, Leigh H. Keysar, Boaz Sci Rep Article Vaccine hesitancy is a major global challenge facing COVID-19 immunization programs. Its main source is low public trust in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. In a preregistered experimental study, we investigated how using a foreign language when communicating COVID-19 vaccine information influences vaccine acceptance. Hong Kong Chinese residents (N = 611) received COVID-19 vaccine information either in their native Chinese or in English. English increased trust in the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine and, as a result, reduced vaccine hesitancy. This indicates that language can impact vaccine attitudes and demonstrate the potential of language interventions for a low cost, actionable strategy to curtail vaccine hesitancy amongst bilingual populations. Language interventions could contribute towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of health and well-being. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8742025/ /pubmed/34997145 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04249-w Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Geipel, Janet Grant, Leigh H. Keysar, Boaz Use of a language intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy |
title | Use of a language intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy |
title_full | Use of a language intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy |
title_fullStr | Use of a language intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy |
title_full_unstemmed | Use of a language intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy |
title_short | Use of a language intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy |
title_sort | use of a language intervention to reduce vaccine hesitancy |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8742025/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34997145 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04249-w |
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