ArticleInformation processing & management2022
Contextualized impacts of an infodemic on vaccine hesitancy: The moderating role of socioeconomic and cultural factors.
Article in Information processing & management, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
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.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparative synthesis of sociocultural and political influences (SPIs) on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: an interdisciplinary systematic review.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- The Prevalence, Features, Influencing Factors, and Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Systematic Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2023Pooled it
- Predictors of influenza vaccination among Iranian pregnant women based on a combined Health Belief Model and Theory of Planned behavior.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2026Article
- Effect of a pharmacist-led infodemic management intervention on perception, willingness to receive and pay for adult vaccines among civil servants in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Digital divide in information verification among young seniors: An analysis of literacies and sociodemographic factors.PloS one · 2026Article
- Factors Predicting Information Overload During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Digital Age: Longitudinal Study.Interactive journal of medical research · 2025Article
- COVID-19 and regional inequalities in childhood vaccination uptake in England: a spline regression.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Role of Influencers and Echo Chambers in the Diffusion of Vaccine Misinformation: Opinion Mining in a Taiwanese Online Community.JMIR infodemiology · 2025Article
- Digitalization, Psychological Well-Being, and the Third-Level Digital Divide: Survey Study During the COVID-19 Pandemic in China.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Factors Influencing COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy and Booster Dose Adherence Among University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study in Crete, Greece.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Caregivers' practices and factors associated with malaria vaccine uptake among under-five children in the Tiko Health District, Cameroon: A community based cross-sectional study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Serious adverse events following immunization with COVID-19 vaccines in Lebanon: a retrospective analysis of the National Pharmacovigilance Database.BMC public health · 2024Observational
- Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy: A Comparison of Sociodemographic and Socioeconomic Predictors with Health Literacy Dimensions.Vaccines · 2024Article
- Panic in the Pandemic: Determinants of Vaccine Hesitancy and the Dilemma of Public Health Information Sharing during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sri Lanka.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance, Hesitancy, and Uptake in People with Diabetes in Australia.Vaccines · 2024Article
- Barriers to vaccine acceptance in the adult population of mainland Finland, 2021.Epidemiology and infection · 2024Article
- Direct long-acting antibodies: updating the language of RSV prevention to reflect the evolution of mAbs.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Information Consumption, Trust Dynamics and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Older Adults: Implications for Health Messaging.Vaccines · 2023Article
- The Impact of Social Media on Vaccination: A Narrative Review.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Review
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study examines how perceived information overload and misinformation affect vaccine hesitancy and how this is moderated by structural and cultural factors. By applying and extending the fundamental cause theory, this study proposes a contextualized impact model to analyze a cross-national survey of 6034 residents in six societies in Asia, Europe and North America in June 2021. The study finds that (1) Older and highly-educated participants were less susceptible to COVID-19 information overload and belief in vaccine misinformation. (2) Perceived information overload led to an increase in vaccine acceptance and uptake, whereas belief in vaccine misinformation caused a decrease. (3) The structural differentiation of vaccine hesitancy was salient and higher socioeconomic status could buffer the negative impact of misinformation on vaccine acceptance. (4) Cultural factors such as collectivism and authoritarian mentality also served as buffers against the misinformation that reduced vaccine acceptance and uptake. These findings add nuanced footnotes to the fundamental causes theory and contribute to the discussion on the global recovery from the infodemic. Besides fact-checking and improving individual information literacy, effective and long-term information management and health policies must pay attention to stratified information gaps across socioeconomic groups, and to contextualize the communication and intervention strategies in different cultures.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.