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Vaccination against COVID-19: Factors That Influence Vaccine Hesitancy among an Ethnically Diverse Community in the UK.
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- Vaccine hesitancy in context of COVID-19 in East Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minorities: A systematic review of UK studies.Vaccine · 2022Pooled it
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- Beyond emotions: Social cognitive predictors of COVID-19 vaccination intentions before and after vaccine roll-out.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Did Religion Help Me?: Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Grenada.Journal of religion and health · 2025Article
- Association Between Sociodemographic Factors and Vaccine Acceptance for Influenza and SARS-CoV-2 in South Korea: Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Global disparities in COVID-19 vaccine booster dose (VBD) acceptance and hesitancy: An updated narrative review.Vaccine: X · 2024Review
- Marginalisation and distrust in the context of the COVID-19 vaccination programme: experiences of communities in a northern UK city region.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Mistrust and Receipt in British Columbia, Canada: Population Survey.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Usage of social media and Covid 19 vaccine hesitancy among medical students in Kericho County.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
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- Expanding Protection Motivation Theory to explain vaccine uptake among United Kingdom and Taiwan populations.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2023Article
- Factors influencing staff attitudes to COVID-19 vaccination in care homes in England: a qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- The language of vaccination campaigns during COVID-19.Medical humanities · 2023Article
- Reasons for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in ethnic minority groups: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of initial attitudes in qualitative research.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2023Review
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- COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in a developing country: prevalence, explanatory factors and implications for the future.Public health · 2023Article
- Estimating COVID-19 vaccine uptake and its drivers among migrants, homeless and precariously housed people in France.Communications medicine · 2023Article
- Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: A Qualitative Study of Mostly Immigrant Racial/Ethnic Minority Older Adults.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
The UK's minority ethnic population, despite being at higher risk of COVID-19 and experiencing poorer health outcomes, continue to have lower uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine compared with their white British counterparts. Given the importance of the vaccination programme in improving health outcomes, this research sought to examine the influential factors that impact the decision to accept the COVID-19 vaccination among an ethnically diverse community. A total of 1058 residents from Luton, UK, a large town with an ethnically diverse population, completed a community survey. Questions centred around uptake or individuals' intentions to accept the offer of COVID-19 vaccination alongside demographics, knowledge, and views on the vaccine. A binary logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the most significant predictors of vaccine hesitancy, while respondents' reasons for not getting vaccinated were identified using qualitative content analysis. Findings revealed that age and ethnicity were the only sociodemographic factors to predict vaccine hesitancy. Knowledge of symptoms and transmission routes, alongside ensuring information about COVID-19 was objectively sourced, were all identified as protective factors against vaccine hesitancy. Qualitative analysis revealed that 'lack of trust in government/authorities' and 'concern of the speed of vaccine development' were the most common reasons for non-uptake. This research reinforces the importance of age, ethnicity, and knowledge as influential factors in predicting vaccine hesitancy. Further, this study uncovers some of the barriers of uptake that can be utilised in developing promotional campaigns to reduce vaccine hesitancy in certain sections of the diverse UK population.
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