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ArticleVaccines2023

Adaptation and Validation of a French Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale.

Margot Eisenblaetter, Clarisse Madiouni, Yasmine Laraki, Delphine Capdevielle, Stéphane Raffard

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Article in Vaccines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Margot EisenblaetterFaculty of Psychology, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Univ. Montpellier, Laboratory EPSYLON EA 4556, 34090 Montpellier, France.
Clarisse MadiouniFaculty of Psychology, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Univ. Montpellier, Laboratory EPSYLON EA 4556, 34090 Montpellier, France.
Yasmine LarakiFaculty of Psychology, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Univ. Montpellier, Laboratory EPSYLON EA 4556, 34090 Montpellier, France.
Delphine CapdevielleUniversity Department of Adult Psychiatry, CHU Montpellier, University Montpellier, Hôpital La Colombière, 34090 Montpellier, France.
Stéphane RaffardFaculty of Psychology, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Univ. Montpellier, Laboratory EPSYLON EA 4556, 34090 Montpellier, France.ORCID 0000-0001-5563-0323

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Agence Nationale de la Recherche SCHIZOVAC; ANR-21-COVR-0017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the past decades, vaccination has proven to be largely beneficial to global health. Despite vaccine efficacy, the French population has been recently affected by more anti-vaccination attitudes and vaccine refusal, and it is therefore necessary to validate tools to study this health issue. The Vaccination Attitudes Examination scale (VAX) is a 12-item questionnaire targeting adults that assesses general attitudes towards vaccination. The aims of the study were to translate and adapt the original English version of the scale into French and to test the psychometric properties of the scale in a French-population-based sample of adults. We included 450 French speaking adults that completed the French VAX and other questionnaires to assess convergent and divergent validities. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses showed that the French version of the VAX replicated the factorial structure of the original scale. Moreover, it demonstrated high internal consistency, good convergent and divergent validities, and excellent temporal stability. Furthermore, scores on the scale differentiated vaccinees from non-vaccinee respondents. Results on the scale provide us with insight into factors involved in vaccine hesitancy in France, therefore allowing French authorities and policy makers to address these specific concerns and improve vaccine acceptance rates in this country.

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scale developmentvaccination attitudesvaccination behavioursvaccination intentionsvaccine

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PMID37243105
PMCPMC10221281

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