Social Patterning and Stability of Intention to Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine in Scotland: Will Those Most at Risk Accept a Vaccine?

Williams, Lynn; Flowers, Paul; McLeod, Julie; Young, David; Rollins, Lesley; The CATALYST Project Team,

doi:10.3390/vaccines9010017

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Social Patterning and Stability of Intention to Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine in Scotland: Will Those Most at Risk Accept a Vaccine?

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Vaccines 2021, 9(1), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010017

Received: 19 November 2020 / Revised: 17 December 2020 / Accepted: 30 December 2020 / Published: 4 January 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Psychological Aspects of COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: Principles and Empirical Strategies)

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Vaccination is central to controlling COVID-19. Its success relies on having safe and effective vaccines and also on high levels of uptake by the public over time. Addressing questions of population-level acceptability, stability of acceptance, and sub-population variation in acceptability are imperative. Using a prospective design, a repeated measures two-wave online survey was conducted to assess key sociodemographic variables and intention to accept a COVID-19 vaccine. The first survey (Time 1) was completed by 3436 people during the period of national lockdown in Scotland and the second survey (n = 2016) was completed two months later (Time 2) when restrictions had been eased. In the first survey, 74% reported being willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Logistic regression analyses showed that there were clear sociodemographic differences in intention to accept a vaccine for COVID-19 with intention being higher in participants of white ethnicity as compared with Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) groups, and in those with higher income levels and higher education levels. Intention was also higher in those who had “shielding” status due to underlying medical conditions. Our results suggest that future interventions, such as mass media and social marketing, need to be targeted at a range of sub-populations and diverse communities. View Full-Text

Keywords: COVID-19; vaccination; vaccine hesitancy; interventions; social patterning; inequalities

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Williams, L.; Flowers, P.; McLeod, J.; Young, D.; Rollins, L.; The CATALYST Project Team. Social Patterning and Stability of Intention to Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine in Scotland: Will Those Most at Risk Accept a Vaccine? Vaccines 2021, 9, 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010017

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Williams L, Flowers P, McLeod J, Young D, Rollins L, The CATALYST Project Team. Social Patterning and Stability of Intention to Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine in Scotland: Will Those Most at Risk Accept a Vaccine? Vaccines. 2021; 9(1):17. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010017

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Williams, Lynn, Paul Flowers, Julie McLeod, David Young, Lesley Rollins, and The CATALYST Project Team. 2021. "Social Patterning and Stability of Intention to Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine in Scotland: Will Those Most at Risk Accept a Vaccine?" Vaccines 9, no. 1: 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9010017

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