Lynn Williams|Paul Flowers|J Mcleod|David Young|Lesley Rollins
Social Patterning and Stability of Intention to Accept a COVID-19 Vaccine in Scotland: Will Those Most at Risk Accept a Vaccine?
vaccination central controlling covid19 success relies safe effective vaccines also high levels uptake public time addressing questions populationlevel acceptability stability acceptance subpopulation variation acceptability imperative using prospective design repeated measures twowave online survey conducted assess key sociodemographic variables intention accept covid19 vaccine first survey time 1 completed 3436 people period national lockdown scotland second survey n 2016 completed two months later time 2 restrictions eased first survey 74 reported willing receive covid19 vaccine logistic regression analyses showed clear sociodemographic differences intention accept vaccine covid19 intention higher participants white ethnicity compared black asian minority ethnic bame groups higher income levels higher education levels intention also higher shielding status due underlying medical conditions results suggest future interventions mass media social marketing need targeted range subpopulations diverse communities