Risk of disease and willingness to vaccinate in the United States: A population-based survey.
Risk of disease and willingness to vaccinate in the United States: A population-based survey.
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疾病的风险和在美国接种疫苗的意愿:一项基于人群的调查。
DOI:
10.1371/journal.pmed.1003354
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发表时间:
2020-10
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影响因子:
15.8
通讯作者:
Miller CR
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作者:
Baumgaertner B;Ridenhour BJ;Justwan F;Carlisle JE;Miller CR
Vaccination complacency occurs when perceived risks of vaccine-preventable diseases are sufficiently low so that vaccination is no longer perceived as a necessary precaution. Disease outbreaks can once again increase perceptions of risk, thereby decrease vaccine complacency, and in turn decrease vaccine hesitancy. It is not well understood, however, how change in perceived risk translates into change in vaccine hesitancy. We advance the concept of vaccine propensity, which relates a change in willingness to vaccinate with a change in perceived risk of infection—holding fixed other considerations such as vaccine confidence and convenience. We used an original survey instrument that presents 7 vaccine-preventable “new” diseases to gather demographically diverse sample data from the United States in 2018 (N = 2,411). Our survey was conducted online between January 25, 2018, and February 2, 2018, and was structured in 3 parts. First, we collected information concerning the places participants live and visit in a typical week. Second, participants were presented with one of 7 hypothetical disease outbreaks and asked how they would respond. Third, we collected sociodemographic information. The survey was designed to match population parameters in the US on 5 major dimensions: age, sex, income, race, and census region. We also were able to closely match education. The aggregate demographic details for study participants were a mean age of 43.80 years, 47% male and 53% female, 38.5% with a college degree, and 24% nonwhite. We found an overall change of at least 30% in proportion willing to vaccinate as risk of infection increases. When considering morbidity information, the proportion willing to vaccinate went from 0.476 (0.449–0.503) at 0 local cases of disease to 0.871 (0.852–0.888) at 100 local cases (upper and lower 95% confidence intervals). When considering mortality information, the proportion went from 0.526 (0.494–0.557) at 0 local cases of disease to 0.916 (0.897–0.931) at 100 local cases. In addition, we ffound that the risk of mortality invokes a larger proportion willing to vaccinate than mere morbidity (P = 0.0002), that older populations are more willing than younger (P<0.0001), that the highest income bracket (>$90,000) is more willing than all others (P = 0.0001), that men are more willing than women (P = 0.0011), and that the proportion willing to vaccinate is related to both ideology and the level of risk (P = 0.004). Limitations of this study include that it does not consider how other factors (such as social influence) interact with local case counts in people’s vaccine decision-making, it cannot determine whether different degrees of severity in morbidity or mortality failed to be statistically significant because of survey design or because participants use heuristically driven decision-making that glosses over degrees, and the study does not capture the part of the US that is not online. In this study, we found that different degrees of risk (in terms of local cases of disease) correspond with different proportions of populations willing to vaccinate. We also identified several sociodemographic aspects of vaccine propensity. Understanding how vaccine propensity is affected by sociodemographic factors is invaluable for predicting where outbreaks are more likely to occur and their expected size, even with the resulting cascade of changing vaccination rates and the respective feedback on potential outbreaks. In a population-based survey, Bert Baumgaertner and colleagues investigate factors associated with willingness of US adults to vaccinate for a hypothetical vaccine-preventable disease. In the US, vaccine-preventable diseases have gone down (~1970–2000s), followed by a rise in vaccine hesitancy (~2000–2018). In places where disease outbreaks have occurred, vaccination rates have gone back up (~2000–2018). We conducted this survey to better understand how local cases of disease can influence people to vaccinate. We conducted a survey that presented participants with one of 7 new disease outbreaks, each with a different degree of morbidity or mortality. We asked participants how many local case counts it would take for them to vaccinate against that disease. The risk of mortality was associated with greater willingness to vaccinate in the presence of fewer case counts compared to the risk of morbidity. Likewise, older populations were more willing than younger, people with high incomes were more willing than all income levels, men were more willing than women, and our findings suggest a relationship between willingness to vaccinate and political ideology. Part of people’s decision to vaccinate is their risk of contracting the disease, and this assessment can vary across different populations. This information can be helpful for campaigns that aim to reduce vaccine hesitancy and is useful for modeling feedback between human decision-making and the spread of disease.
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影响因子:
5.2
作者:
Mata R;Josef AK;Samanez-Larkin GR;Hertwig R
通讯作者:
Hertwig R
影响因子:
15.8
作者:
Olive, Jacqueline K.;Hotez, Peter J.;Nolan, Melissa S.
通讯作者:
Nolan, Melissa S.
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Justwan, Florian;Baumgaertner, Bert;Kizer, Jordan
通讯作者:
Kizer, Jordan
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Baumgaertner B;Carlisle JE;Justwan F
通讯作者:
Justwan F
DOI:
10.1016/s1473-3099(16)00004-9
发表时间:
2016-05
期刊:
The Lancet. Infectious diseases
影响因子:
--
作者:
Glasser JW;Feng Z;Omer SB;Smith PJ;Rodewald LE
通讯作者:
Rodewald LE