Relationship of people's sources of health information and political ideology with acceptance of conspiratorial beliefs about vaccines
Relationship of people's sources of health information and political ideology with acceptance of conspiratorial beliefs about vaccines
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DOI：
10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.04.063
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发表时间：
2019-05-21
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影响因子：
5.5
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Ruiz, Jeanette B.
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Featherstone, Jieyu D.;Bell, Robert A.;Ruiz, Jeanette B.
背景：关于疫苗接种的阴谋论很普遍。我们评估了人们依赖的卫生信息来源和他们的政治意识形态与接受疫苗阴谋论的关系。方法：在亚马逊土耳其机械众包平台进行在线调查（N = 599）。通过结构方程模型检验假设。结果：接受疫苗阴谋论与更依赖社交媒体获取健康信息呈正相关。= 0.42, p < .001)，与医疗网站的使用呈负相关。= -0.21, p < .001)，与使用健康信息提供者无显著相关(coef。= -0.13, p = 0.061)。此外，自由主义的政治倾向与接受疫苗阴谋论呈负相关。= -0.29, p < .001)。结论：理解疫苗阴谋接受需要考虑人们的健康信息来源。政治保守派对阴谋信仰的更大敏感性延伸到疫苗接种的话题。(C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
Background: Conspiracies about vaccination are prevalent. We assessed how the health information sources people rely upon and their political ideologies are associated with acceptance of vaccine conspiracies.Methods: Online survey (N = 599) on Amazon's Mechanical Turk crowdsource platform. Hypotheses were tested via structural equation modeling.Results: Acceptance of vaccine conspiracy beliefs was associated positively with greater reliance on social media for health information (coef. = 0.42, p < .001), inversely related to use of medical websites (coef. = -0.21, p < .001), and not significantly related to use of providers for health information (coef. = -0.13, p = .061). In addition, liberal political orientation was negatively associated with acceptance of vaccine conspiracies (coef. = -0.29, p < .001).Conclusions: An understanding of vaccine conspiracy acceptance requires a consideration of people's health information sources. The greater susceptibility of political conservatives to conspiracy beliefs extends to the topic of vaccination. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.