ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Emphasize personal health benefits to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates.
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- An experimental study on the effects of electronic medicinal product information on vaccine hesitancy.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Personal risk or societal benefit? Investigating adults' support for COVID-19 childhood vaccination.Vaccine · 2023Trial
- Economic risk framing increases intention to vaccinate among Republican COVID-19 vaccine refusers.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Trial
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- Can financial incentives and other nudges increase COVID-19 vaccinations among the vaccine hesitant? A randomized trial.Vaccine · 2022Trial
- When do persuasive messages on vaccine safety steer COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and recommendations? Behavioural insights from a randomised controlled experiment in Malaysia.BMJ global health · 2022Trial
- Partisan differences in healthcare decision-making: Evidence from a vaccine experiment.PloS one · 2026Article
- The mediating effect of E-health literacy on health belief model-based vaccine attitudes among parents in Türkiye: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Assembling vaccine perspectives: Vaccination and moral self-talk in the journals of white US mothers during Covid-19.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2024Article
- Behaviorally informed digital campaigns and their association with social media engagement and COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Belize.BMC global and public health · 2024Article
- Science-based exit from stringent countermeasures against COVID-19: Mortality prediction using immune landscape between 2021 and 2022 in Japan.Vaccine: X · 2024Article
- Exploring COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among young adults in Australia. A qualitative study.Vaccine: X · 2024Article
- I want to be safe: understanding the main drivers behind vaccination choice throughout the pandemic.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Motivators and Demotivators for COVID-19 Vaccination Based on Co-Occurrence Networks of Verbal Reasons for Vaccination Acceptance and Resistance: Repetitive Cross-Sectional Surveys and Network Analysis.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Unraveling the effects of the Ebola experience on behavior choices during COVID-19 in Liberia: a mixed-methods study across successive outbreaks.BMC global and public health · 2024Article
- Decision to self-isolate during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a rapid scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccination in Belize.Vaccine: X · 2023Article
- Predictors and motives for mask-wearing behavior and vaccination intention.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines is a tremendous scientific response to the current global pandemic. However, vaccines per se do not save lives and restart economies. Their success depends on the number of people getting vaccinated. We used a survey experiment to examine the impact on vaccine intentions of a variety of public health messages identified as particularly promising: three messages that emphasize different benefits from the vaccines (personal health, the health of others, and the recovery of local and national economies) and one message that emphasizes vaccine safety. Because people will likely be exposed to multiple messages in the real world, we also examined the effect of these messages in combination. Based on a nationally quota representative sample of 3,048 adults in the United States, our findings suggest that several forms of public messages can increase vaccine intentions, but messaging that emphasizes personal health benefits had the largest impact.
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