COVID-19 vaccination acceptability in the UK at the start of the vaccination programme: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey (CoVAccS – wave 2)

  1. S.M. Sherman
  2. J. Sim
  3. M. Cutts
  4. H. Dasch
  5. R. Amlôt
  6. G.J. Rubin
  7. N. Sevdalis
  8. L.E. Smith

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.puhe.2021.10.008
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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: Ethics: Ethical approval for this study was granted by Keele University’s Research Ethics Committee (reference: PS-200129).
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

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    Analyses were conducted in SPSS 26.
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    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    Limitations to this study include that we measured self-reported intention rather than actual uptake. Intention is usually higher than uptake; however, vaccine intention predicts vaccine uptake and so acts as a useful proxy in the early stages of vaccination rollout. Also, the survey is cross-sectional, so we are unable to infer causality between attitudinal factors and intention. To our knowledge, this is the first peer-reviewed study investigating intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccination in a demographically representative sample of the UK population since the COVID-19 vaccination rollout began in December 2020. Three-quarters of our sample reported being very likely to have the COVID-19 vaccination. However, since vaccine uptake may well be lower than vaccine intention, it is important to understand the factors associated with intention and to ensure that communication and engagement strategies related to the vaccination are informed by those factors. Going forward, it is not yet known for how long COVID-19 vaccines confer immunity or how effective they will continue to be against emerging strains as the virus mutates and, consequently, whether booster vaccines may be required [24]. In order to ensure the success of the current vaccination rollout and any subsequent vaccination waves, our findings underline the importance of ongoing clear communication informed by theoretical constructs related to COVID-19 vaccination beliefs and attitudes, and the need for such communi...

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

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