Vaccination Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors

Dear Colleagues，

As guest editor, I am pleased to invite you to contribute your research to this Special Issue entitled “Vaccination Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors”. Vaccination is an essential preventive practice against infectious viral and bacterial diseases. However, increasing research reveals that negative attitudes toward vaccination continue to pose significant challenges to successfully implementing vaccination programs. Research also shows that vaccine hesitancy extends across a wide range of populations, including young adults, healthy individuals, parents, and patients. Since public attitudes, perceptions, and intentions are pivotal to achieving the desired vaccination goal and attaining herd immunity, it is essential to identify the factors nurturing positive attitudes toward vaccines and driving vaccination intentions. Hence, this Special Issue welcomes original studies and review articles from diverse disciplines covering a wide range of vaccinations, including COVID-19 and annual/routine vaccinations (e.g., influenza, HPV, Hepatitis). Investigations applying various theories and methodological approaches, as well as research that helps create theory-based vaccination interventions, are welcomed. In addition, we welcome quantitative studies offering novel empirical evidence at the micro as well as the macro level that use psychological, anthropological, and health communication perspectives to study what constitutes people’s vaccination attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors.

Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: 

• Attitudes towards vaccines and vaccination;
• Promoters and barriers of vaccination intention or acceptance;
• Determinants of vaccine hesitancy;
• Trust and mistrust toward vaccines and vaccination;
• Cross-cultural and geographic differences in vaccination attitudes and behaviors;
• Generational differences in vaccination attitudes and behaviors;
• Cultural paradigm of vaccine acceptors and hesitant groups;
• Behavioral change theories and models in vaccination promotion;
• Vaccination attitude change strategies;
• Communication strategies for changing vaccination perceptions, attitudes, and intentions;
• Vaccination promotion interventions;
• Vaccines and vaccination information sources;
• Media effects on vaccines and vaccination.

Prof. Dr. Yam B. Limbu
Guest Editor

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