Steven Taylor|Caeleigh A. Landry|Michelle M. Paluszek|Rosalind Groenewoud|Geoffrey S. Rachor|Gordon J. G. Asmundson
A Proactive Approach for Managing COVID-19: The Importance of Understanding the Motivational Roots of Vaccination Hesitancy for SARS-CoV2
University of British Columbia|University of Regina|University of Regina|University of British Columbia|University of Regina|University of Regina
vaccination hesitancythe reluctance refusal vaccinatedis leading global health threat world health organization 2019 imperative identify prevalence vaccination hesitancy sarscov2 order understand scope problem identify motivational roots order proactively prepare address problem vaccine eventually becomes availableto identify 1 prevalence vaccination hesitancy sarscov2 vaccine 2 motivational roots hesitancy 3 promising incentives improving likelihood vaccination uptake vaccine become availablea crosssectional sample 3674 american canadian adults assessed covid19 pandemic may 2020measures vaccination intention ie vaccine covid19 available would get vaccinated attitudes toward vaccines general specific sarscov2 using vaccination attitudes examination scale incentives getting vaccinated reported would get vaccinatedmany american 25 canadian 20 respondents said would get vaccinated sarscov2 vaccine available nonadherence rates magnitude would make difficult impossible achieve herd immunity vaccine rejection strongly correlated mistrust vaccine benefit also correlated worry unforeseen future effects concerns commercial profiteering pharmaceutical companies preferences natural immunity asked incentives getting vaccinated respondents likely report evidence rigorous testing safety vaccine greatest importancevaccination hesitancy major looming problem covid19 improve vaccine uptake imperative vaccine demonstrated public rigorously tested perceived rushed premature dissemination