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Determinants of the Attitude to COVID-19 Vaccine in Lima-Peru: Path Analysis and Structural Regression

INTRODUCTION: Research on the effects of COVID-19 has shown that a favorable attitude toward the COVID-19 vaccine would help reduce the pandemic's sequelae and avoid lethal variants. OBJECTIVE: A theoretical model was tested through the strategy of path analysis and structural equation modeling...

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Autores principales: Hervias-Guerra, Edmundo, Capa-Luque, Walter, Bazán-Ramírez, Aldo, Cossío-Reynaga, Marina
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9989381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36895706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608231158960
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author Hervias-Guerra, Edmundo
Capa-Luque, Walter
Bazán-Ramírez, Aldo
Cossío-Reynaga, Marina
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Capa-Luque, Walter
Bazán-Ramírez, Aldo
Cossío-Reynaga, Marina
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description INTRODUCTION: Research on the effects of COVID-19 has shown that a favorable attitude toward the COVID-19 vaccine would help reduce the pandemic's sequelae and avoid lethal variants. OBJECTIVE: A theoretical model was tested through the strategy of path analysis and structural equation modeling, seeking to evaluate the direct effect of neuroticism and the indirect effects of risk-avoidance and rule-following behaviors, mediated by attitudes toward science. METHODS: A total of 459 adults, mostly women (61%), mean age 28.51 (SD = 10.36), living in Lima (Peru), participated. The scales of neuroticism, risk avoidance behavior (RAB), norm following (NF), attitudes toward science, and attitudes toward vaccination were administered. RESULTS: The path analysis explained 36% of the variance in vaccine attitude, whereas the latent structural regression model achieved a 54% explanation; according to this model attitude toward science (β=.70, p < .01) and neuroticism (β=-.16, p < .01) are significant predictors of vaccine attitude. Likewise, risk avoidance behavior and rule-following have indirect effects on attitudes toward vaccination. CONCLUSION: Low neuroticism and a positive attitude toward the science that mediates the effects of RAB and NF directly condition the possibility of vaccination against COVID-19 in the adult population.
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spelling pubmed-99893812023-03-08 Determinants of the Attitude to COVID-19 Vaccine in Lima-Peru: Path Analysis and Structural Regression Hervias-Guerra, Edmundo Capa-Luque, Walter Bazán-Ramírez, Aldo Cossío-Reynaga, Marina SAGE Open Nurs Original Research Article INTRODUCTION: Research on the effects of COVID-19 has shown that a favorable attitude toward the COVID-19 vaccine would help reduce the pandemic's sequelae and avoid lethal variants. OBJECTIVE: A theoretical model was tested through the strategy of path analysis and structural equation modeling, seeking to evaluate the direct effect of neuroticism and the indirect effects of risk-avoidance and rule-following behaviors, mediated by attitudes toward science. METHODS: A total of 459 adults, mostly women (61%), mean age 28.51 (SD = 10.36), living in Lima (Peru), participated. The scales of neuroticism, risk avoidance behavior (RAB), norm following (NF), attitudes toward science, and attitudes toward vaccination were administered. RESULTS: The path analysis explained 36% of the variance in vaccine attitude, whereas the latent structural regression model achieved a 54% explanation; according to this model attitude toward science (β=.70, p < .01) and neuroticism (β=-.16, p < .01) are significant predictors of vaccine attitude. Likewise, risk avoidance behavior and rule-following have indirect effects on attitudes toward vaccination. CONCLUSION: Low neuroticism and a positive attitude toward the science that mediates the effects of RAB and NF directly condition the possibility of vaccination against COVID-19 in the adult population. SAGE Publications 2023-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9989381/ /pubmed/36895706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608231158960 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Hervias-Guerra, Edmundo
Capa-Luque, Walter
Bazán-Ramírez, Aldo
Cossío-Reynaga, Marina
Determinants of the Attitude to COVID-19 Vaccine in Lima-Peru: Path Analysis and Structural Regression
title Determinants of the Attitude to COVID-19 Vaccine in Lima-Peru: Path Analysis and Structural Regression
title_full Determinants of the Attitude to COVID-19 Vaccine in Lima-Peru: Path Analysis and Structural Regression
title_fullStr Determinants of the Attitude to COVID-19 Vaccine in Lima-Peru: Path Analysis and Structural Regression
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of the Attitude to COVID-19 Vaccine in Lima-Peru: Path Analysis and Structural Regression
title_short Determinants of the Attitude to COVID-19 Vaccine in Lima-Peru: Path Analysis and Structural Regression
title_sort determinants of the attitude to covid-19 vaccine in lima-peru: path analysis and structural regression
topic Original Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9989381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36895706
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23779608231158960
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