SynthesisHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2018
Measuring trust in vaccination: A systematic review.
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Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
PREVENT: Practice-based Approaches to Promote HPV Vaccination in the Safety Net - BootCamp Translation
PREVENT: Practice-based Approaches to Promote HPV Vaccination in the Safety Net - Pilot Trial
PREVENT: Practice-based Approaches to Promote HPV Vaccination in the Safety Net - Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)
Who cites it
377 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Why do people trust (or mistrust) health organizations? A systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2026Pooled it
- Factors influencing adolescents' decision-making about COVID-19 vaccination: a systematic review with qualitative synthesis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Video and Infographic Messages From Primary Care Physicians and Influenza Vaccination Rates: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- "Vaccinating your child during an emergency is more important than ever": a randomised controlled trial on message framing among Ukrainian refugees in Poland, 2023.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2024Trial
- Optimal timing for staged vaccination campaigns: Insights from scenario tree-based stochastic optimization.Infectious Disease Modelling · 2027Article
- Understanding pneumococcal vaccine perceptions in seven countries: Findings from a cross-sectional survey.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- COVID vaccination and economic game decisions: The role of analytical thinking.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- The Dunning-Kruger effect does not account for Covid-scepticism or vaccine hesitancy.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
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- Consent to Medical Data Processing Among Adult Primary Care Patients: Associations with Vaccination Behaviour and Healthcare Trust.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Role of trust and trustworthiness in implementation science studies: a systematic review protocol.BMJ open · 2026Article
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- Predictors of malaria vaccine acceptability among healthcare providers in conflict-affected Sudan: a cross-sectional analysis.Malaria journal · 2026Article
- The Moderating Role of Demographic Variables in the Effect of Health Literacy on Anti-Vaccination Sentiment.Vaccines · 2026Article
- Vaccine Hesitancy Among Caregivers in China: Associations of Misinterpreted AEFI, Compensation Awareness, and Institutional Trust.Vaccines · 2026Article
- Childhood Vaccine Refusal: Sociodemographic, Behavioral, and Vaccine Confidence Factors in Konya, Türkiye.Vaccines · 2026Article
- Vaccine communication: a critical review of foundations, challenges, and future directions.NPJ vaccines · 2026Review
- Trust and Distrust in Dental Professionals: Patient Perceptions and Experiences.Journal of dental education · 2026Article
- Institutional trust and vaccination delay as key metrics for vaccination rollout success.Communications medicine · 2026Article
317 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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7 authors.
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Abstract
Vaccine acceptance depends on public trust and confidence in the safety and efficacy of vaccines and immunization, the health system, healthcare professionals and the wider vaccine research community. This systematic review analyses the current breadth and depth of vaccine research literature that explicitly refers to the concept of trust within their stated aims or research questions. After duplicates were removed, 19,643 articles were screened by title and abstract. Of these 2,779 were screened by full text, 35 of which were included in the final analysis. These studies examined a range of trust relationships as they pertain to vaccination, including trust in healthcare professionals, the health system, the government, and friends and family members. Three studies examined generalized trust. Findings indicated that trust is often referred to implicitly (19/35), rather than explicitly examined in the context of a formal definition or discussion of the existing literature on trust in a health context. Within the quantitative research analysed, trust was commonly measured with a single-item measure (9/25). Only two studies used validated multi-item measures of trust. Three studies examined changes in trust, either following an intervention or over the course of a pandemic. The findings of this review indicate a disconnect between the current vaccine hesitancy research and the wider health-related trust literature, a dearth in research on trust in low and middle-income settings, a need for studies on how trust levels change over time and investigations on how resilience to trust-eroding information can be built into a trustworthy health system.
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