The Persistence of Vaccine Hesitancy: COVID-19 Vaccination Intention in New Zealand

  1. Jagadish Thaker

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  1. Version published to 10.1080/10810730.2021.1899346
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    Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: Ethics approval to conduct the survey was received from the Massey University Human Ethics Committee (Ethics Notification Number: 4000022852 by Professor Craig Johnson, Chair, Human Ethics Chairs’ Committee and Director, Research Ethics).
    Consent: Participants provided informed consent after reading brief aims of the survey about public opinion about current issues facing the country and the world.
    RandomizationTo assess the dimensions of the 14-item vaccine hesitancy scale, the dataset was randomly and evenly split to test and validate the scale.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS version 25 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY).
    SPSS
    suggested: (SPSS, RRID:SCR_002865)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    A primary limitation is the cross-sectional design of the study. Attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccine are likely to shift, as seen in other countries (e.g., Rhodes et al., 2020), therefore a need to further monitor shifting public attitudes and correlates affecting this shift. Future research should also explore other dimensions of vaccine hesitancy, such as the desire for autonomy and morality concerns (Gidengil et al., 2019). Conclusion: The World Health Organization identifies vaccine hesitancy as one of the 10 most important health threats to the world (World Health Organization, 2019). Increasing public enthusiasm for vaccination should co-occur with the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. Findings of this study suggest that a health communication campaign from trusted sources, with information that addresses prevailing concerns about vaccines, is likely to help increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

    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.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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