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Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection

The scientific call for vaccination against the COVID-19 pandemic has met hesitancy, postponement, and direct opposition of parts of the public in several countries. Mistrusting the COVID-19 vaccine, distrusting the authorities, and unrealistic optimism, are three major reasons employed in justifyin...

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Autores principales: Eshel, Yohanan, Kimhi, Shaul, Marciano, Hadas, Adini, Bruria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8810499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35127631
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.823795
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Adini, Bruria
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description The scientific call for vaccination against the COVID-19 pandemic has met hesitancy, postponement, and direct opposition of parts of the public in several countries. Mistrusting the COVID-19 vaccine, distrusting the authorities, and unrealistic optimism, are three major reasons employed in justifying vaccine hesitancy. The present study examines two major issues. First, it strives to identify individuals that are unwilling to adhere to the vaccination process, more strongly question the effectiveness and necessity of the COVID-19 vaccine, and wonder about potential covert reasons for its administration. Second, it investigates associations between such “conspiracy” claims and the actual rejection of the vaccine. We assume that individuals belonging to social groups which are partly excluded by the general society will be less willing to fulfill the demands of this society, more inclined to reject the vaccine and associate it with some hidden conspiracy. A relatively large sample of the Israeli public (N = 2002) has responded to an anonymous questionnaire pertaining, among other things, to vaccine hesitancy and the individual level of vaccine uptake. Previous research has mainly examined the reasons for vaccine hesitancy. The present study's results indicate that three out of four social exclusion criteria (young adulthood, low level of income, and orthodox religiosity) have negatively predicted vaccine uptake and positively predicted three types of reasoning for vaccine hesitancy. Young adulthood was the strongest predictor of vaccine rejection. Attempts at convincing hesitating individuals to uptake this vaccine have often failed in many countries. As varied reasons underlie vaccine refusal, it is suggested that the approach to different vaccine rejecting groups should not be generic but rather tailor-made, in an attempt to influence their perceptions and behavior.
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spelling pubmed-88104992022-02-04 Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection Eshel, Yohanan Kimhi, Shaul Marciano, Hadas Adini, Bruria Front Public Health Public Health The scientific call for vaccination against the COVID-19 pandemic has met hesitancy, postponement, and direct opposition of parts of the public in several countries. Mistrusting the COVID-19 vaccine, distrusting the authorities, and unrealistic optimism, are three major reasons employed in justifying vaccine hesitancy. The present study examines two major issues. First, it strives to identify individuals that are unwilling to adhere to the vaccination process, more strongly question the effectiveness and necessity of the COVID-19 vaccine, and wonder about potential covert reasons for its administration. Second, it investigates associations between such “conspiracy” claims and the actual rejection of the vaccine. We assume that individuals belonging to social groups which are partly excluded by the general society will be less willing to fulfill the demands of this society, more inclined to reject the vaccine and associate it with some hidden conspiracy. A relatively large sample of the Israeli public (N = 2002) has responded to an anonymous questionnaire pertaining, among other things, to vaccine hesitancy and the individual level of vaccine uptake. Previous research has mainly examined the reasons for vaccine hesitancy. The present study's results indicate that three out of four social exclusion criteria (young adulthood, low level of income, and orthodox religiosity) have negatively predicted vaccine uptake and positively predicted three types of reasoning for vaccine hesitancy. Young adulthood was the strongest predictor of vaccine rejection. Attempts at convincing hesitating individuals to uptake this vaccine have often failed in many countries. As varied reasons underlie vaccine refusal, it is suggested that the approach to different vaccine rejecting groups should not be generic but rather tailor-made, in an attempt to influence their perceptions and behavior. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8810499/ /pubmed/35127631 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.823795 Text en Copyright © 2022 Eshel, Kimhi, Marciano and Adini. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Eshel, Yohanan
Kimhi, Shaul
Marciano, Hadas
Adini, Bruria
Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection
title Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection
title_full Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection
title_fullStr Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection
title_full_unstemmed Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection
title_short Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection
title_sort belonging to socially excluded groups as a predictor of vaccine hesitancy and rejection
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8810499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35127631
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.823795
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