ArticleVaccines2022
Acceptance, Hesitancy, and Refusal in Anti-COVID-19 Vaccination: A Cluster Analysis Aiming at the Typology behind These Three Concepts.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Acceptance-Hesitancy of COVID-19 Vaccination and Factors Affecting It in Adults: Systematic Review Study.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2024Pooled it
- The Efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in the Elderly: A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Review
- The deadly triple M (mistrust, misinformation, and missed opportunities): understanding Romania's COVID-19 vaccination campaign and its lasting impact on public health.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- COVID-19 and influenza vaccine-hesitancy subgroups.PloS one · 2024Article
- The Psychology of COVID-19 Booster Hesitancy, Acceptance and Resistance in Australia.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Article
- Vaccination against COVID-19 in Europe: A Typology Based on Cluster Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
This paper presents the findings of a study aiming at an innovative typology of attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination. The proposed typology tries to go beyond the common sociological studies who divide the public into three categories: pro-vaxxers, anti-vaxxers, and hesitants. Our purpose is obtaining a more complex typology using cluster analysis. The article is based on a nation-wide survey conducted in Romania. The sample of the survey was statistically representative to the population of Romania and was composed of 1002 participants. A k-means algorithm for classifying cases was used to identify how the studied population structures itself when it comes to attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination. We see hesitancy as an expression of concern or doubt about the value or safety of the vaccination, but also as fear or dis(trust) in the authorities, or as disinterest. We found out that the Romanian public falls into three categories regarding the attitude towards COVID-19 vaccination: the "non-fanatical" pro-vaxxers, the anti-vaxxers, and those without a clear opinion (uninterested and/or undecided). What we usually call "vaccine hesitancy" can be found, depending on motivation or type of hesitancy, in both of the last two clusters.
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