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Advancing the Science on Vaccine Hesitancy to Inform Interventions
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Advancing the Science on Vaccine Hesitancy to Inform Interventions

A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Vaccines and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 774

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Kimberly H. Nguyen

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Guest Editor
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University Medical School, 136 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Interests: exploring hesitancy toward COVID-19 and routinely recommended vaccines, identifying disparities in vaccination coverage, understanding reasons for non-vaccination, and developing strategies for increasing vaccine uptake and confidence
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Allen

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Guest Editor
Department of Community Health, Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences, 574 Boston Ave, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Interests: developing community-based interventions to address health inequities among populations that experience social disadvantage/minoritization

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The uptake of routinely recommended vaccines is suboptimal among some population subgroups in the U.S. Low vaccine uptake can be due to a variety of factors, including barriers to access, lack of trust in institutions, concerns about vaccine safety and efficacy, sociocultural factors, and religious or philosophical beliefs. While evidence-based interventions to promote the uptake of routine child and adult vaccinations exist, stagnating (or declining) rates of vaccine uptake among some groups suggests that new strategies may be needed to prepare the population for advances in vaccine technology and the inevitable next pandemic. This Special Issue will include papers that propose new or adapted conceptual frameworks, measures to assess vaccine hesitancy, qualitative and/or quantitative studies that advance our understanding of what is currently known, and studies evaluating the effectiveness or feasibility of new public health strategies.

Dr. Kimberly H. Nguyen
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Allen
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Vaccines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • vaccine hesitancy
  • vaccine confidence
  • COVID-19
  • routinely recommended vaccines
  • epidemiologic methods
  • conceptual frameworks
  • strategies
  • surveillance

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Reasons for COVID-19 Non-Vaccination from 2021 to 2023 for Adults, Adolescents, and Children
by Kimberly H. Nguyen, Yingjun Bao, Julie Mortazavi, Laura Corlin and Jennifer D. Allen
Vaccines 2024, 12(6), 568; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines12060568 - 22 May 2024
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Understanding how attitudes and beliefs about COVID-19 vaccination have changed over time is essential for identifying areas where targeted messaging and interventions can improve vaccination confidence and uptake. Using data from multiple waves of the nationally representative U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey [...] Read more.
Understanding how attitudes and beliefs about COVID-19 vaccination have changed over time is essential for identifying areas where targeted messaging and interventions can improve vaccination confidence and uptake. Using data from multiple waves of the nationally representative U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey collected from January 2021 to May 2023, we assessed reasons for the non-vaccination of adults, adolescents, and children using the Health Belief Model as the framework for understanding behavior. Among unvaccinated adults, perceived vulnerability increased from 11.9% to 44.1%, attitudinal factors/mistrust increased from 28.6% to 53.4%, and lack of cue to action increased from 7.5% to 9.7% from January 2021 to May 2022. On the other hand, safety/efficacy concerns decreased from 74.0% to 60.9%, and logistical barriers to vaccination decreased from 9.1% to 3.4% during the same time period. Regarding reasons for non-vaccination of youth, perceived vulnerability increased from 32.8% to 40.0%, safety/efficacy concerns decreased from 73.9% to 60.4%, and lack of cue to action increased from 10.4% to 13.4% between September 2021 and May 2023. While safety/efficacy concerns and logistic barriers have decreased, increases in perceived vulnerability to COVID-19, mistrust, and lack of cues to action suggest that more efforts are needed to address these barriers to vaccination. Full article
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