Journal article
Lack of trust, conspiracy beliefs, and social media use predict COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy
- Abstract:
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As COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out across the world, there are growing concerns about the roles that trust, belief in conspiracy theories, and spread of misinformation through social media play in impacting vaccine hesitancy. We use a nationally representative survey of 1476 adults in the UK between 12 and 18 December 2020, along with 5 focus groups conducted during the same period. Trust is a core predictor, with distrust in vaccines in general and mistrust in government raising vaccine hes...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Economic and Social Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- MDPI Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Vaccines Journal website
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 6
- Article number:
- 593
- Publication date:
- 2021-06-03
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-05-31
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2076-393X
- Pmid:
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34204971
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1184393
- Local pid:
- pubs:1184393
- Deposit date:
- 2022-06-18
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- Copyright holder:
- Jennings et al
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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