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Vaccine Hesitancy towards COVID-19 Vaccination: Investigating the Role of Information Sources through a Mediation Analysis.
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37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Interventions Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy in the WHO European Region and in North America (United States and Canada): A Systematic Review.Public health reviews · 2026Pooled it
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- Susceptibility to digital health misinformation: a multi-level narrative review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Bayesian uncertainty quantification to identify population level vaccine hesitancy behaviours.PloS one · 2026Article
- Beliefs and Attitudes of Hesitant Spaniards Towards COVID-19 Vaccines: "A Personal Decision".Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Targeting anger for COVID-19 prevention: The motivating role of anger on media use and vaccination intention.PloS one · 2025Article
- Evaluating vaccination timing, hesitancy and effectiveness to prevent future outbreaks: insights from COVID-19 modelling and transmission dynamics.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Attitudes toward Adolescent HPV Vaccination after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey of Mothers.Vaccines · 2024Article
- Exploring the Inherent Heterogeneity of Vaccine Hesitancy: A Study of a Childhood-Vaccine-Hesitant Population.Vaccines · 2024Article
- A scoping review of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: refusal rate, associated factors, and strategies to reduce.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Knowledge, attitude and perception towards COVID-19 vaccines amongst clients of tertiary care hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.The Pan African medical journal · 2024Article
- Vaccine Hesitancy Among Parents and Its Determinants During the Era of COVID-19 in Taif City, Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2023Article
- The association of conspiracy beliefs and the uptake of COVID-19 vaccination: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Information Sources and Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination at a Free Clinic in the State of Nebraska, USA.Journal of community health · 2023Article
- Investigation of personal variables, technology usage, vaccine-related variables, social media-specific epistemological beliefs, media literacy, social impact strategies variables affecting vaccine hesitancy beliefs in the Covid-19 pandemic.Zeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften = Journal of public health · 2023Article
- The impact of information sources on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in sub-Saharan Africa.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Parents' Willingness to Vaccinate Children for COVID-19: Conspiracy Theories, Information Sources, and Perceived Responsibility.Journal of health communication · 2023Article
- Facilitators of and barriers to COVID-19 vaccination in Grenada: a qualitative study.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2023Article
- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the Saudi Arabian population.Journal of medicine and life · 2023Article
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Abstract
Mass vaccination campaigns have been implemented worldwide to counteract the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic, however their effectiveness could be challenged by vaccine hesitancy. The tremendous rise in the use of social media have made them acquire a leading role as an information source, thus representing a crucial factor at play that could contribute to increase or mitigate vaccine hesitancy, as information sources play a pivotal role in shaping public opinion and perceptions. The aims of the study were to investigate if information sources could affect the attitude towards COVID-19 vaccination and if they could act as a mediator in the relationship between individual characteristics and vaccine hesitancy. A cross-sectional online survey was conducted by a professional panellist on a representative sample of 1011 citizens from the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy in January 2021. A mediation analysis using structural equation modelling was performed. Our results show how social media directly or indirectly increases vaccine hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccination, while the opposite effect was observed for institutional websites. Given the global widespread use of social media, their use should be enhanced to disseminate scientifically sound information to a greater audience to counteract vaccine hesitancy, while at the same time continuing to promote and update institutional websites that have proven to be effective in reducing vaccine hesitancy.
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