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Vaccination Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors

A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Vaccines and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 2948

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Yam B. Limbu

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School of Business, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, USA
Interests: consumer behavior; pharmaceutical and healthcare; vaccine hesitancy
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues，

As guest editor, I am pleased to invite you to contribute your research to this Special Issue entitled “Vaccination Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors”. Vaccination is an essential preventive practice against infectious viral and bacterial diseases. However, increasing research reveals that negative attitudes toward vaccination continue to pose significant challenges to successfully implementing vaccination programs. Research also shows that vaccine hesitancy extends across a wide range of populations, including young adults, healthy individuals, parents, and patients. Since public attitudes, perceptions, and intentions are pivotal to achieving the desired vaccination goal and attaining herd immunity, it is essential to identify the factors nurturing positive attitudes toward vaccines and driving vaccination intentions. Hence, this Special Issue welcomes original studies and review articles from diverse disciplines covering a wide range of vaccinations, including COVID-19 and annual/routine vaccinations (e.g., influenza, HPV, Hepatitis). Investigations applying various theories and methodological approaches, as well as research that helps create theory-based vaccination interventions, are welcomed. In addition, we welcome quantitative studies offering novel empirical evidence at the micro as well as the macro level that use psychological, anthropological, and health communication perspectives to study what constitutes people’s vaccination attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors.

Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: 

  • Attitudes towards vaccines and vaccination;
  • Promoters and barriers of vaccination intention or acceptance;
  • Determinants of vaccine hesitancy;
  • Trust and mistrust toward vaccines and vaccination;
  • Cross-cultural and geographic differences in vaccination attitudes and behaviors;
  • Generational differences in vaccination attitudes and behaviors;
  • Cultural paradigm of vaccine acceptors and hesitant groups;
  • Behavioral change theories and models in vaccination promotion;
  • Vaccination attitude change strategies;
  • Communication strategies for changing vaccination perceptions, attitudes, and intentions;
  • Vaccination promotion interventions;
  • Vaccines and vaccination information sources;
  • Media effects on vaccines and vaccination.

Prof. Dr. Yam B. Limbu
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Vaccines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • vaccination attitudes
  • vaccine perceptions
  • vaccination intention
  • vaccine hesitancy
  • culture and vaccination
  • behavioral theories
  • attitude strategies
  • vaccination interventions
  • information sources
  • media influence

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Influenza Vaccination in Children Younger than 5 Years in the Region of Murcia (Spain), a Comparative Analysis among Vaccinating and Non-Vaccinating Parents: Data from the FLUTETRA Study
by Jaime Jesús Pérez Martín, Matilde Zornoza Moreno, Francisca Isabel Tornel Miñarro, María Cruz Gómez Moreno, María del Carmen Valcárcel Gómez and Marta Pérez Martínez
Vaccines 2024, 12(2), 192; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines12020192 - 13 Feb 2024
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The high burden of influenza in children has driven numerous countries towards universal vaccination of healthy children from 6 to 59 months of age. The Region of Murcia was one of the pioneer Spanish regions to conduct a universal vaccination campaign and to [...] Read more.
The high burden of influenza in children has driven numerous countries towards universal vaccination of healthy children from 6 to 59 months of age. The Region of Murcia was one of the pioneer Spanish regions to conduct a universal vaccination campaign and to use live-attenuated intranasal vaccine (LAIV) if age appropriate. This study aims to evaluate the parents’ likeliness to vaccinate their children and to compare the profile of vaccinating/non-vaccinating parents. This study was designed as a prospective, real-world, survey-based data collection in the 2022–2023 season campaign. This study’s sample was selected from those children whose information was available in the local Public Health System databases PERSAN and VACUSAN. Children received LAIV or intramuscular vaccine (IIV) depending on their age as per standard practice. The parent self-vaccination/intention to vaccinate themselves in this campaign (OR = 4.75), the compliance with the official vaccination schedule (OR = 3.41), and the prescription of antibiotics more than twice in the previous year (OR = 2.24) were strongly associated with children’s vaccination. Overall, vaccinating parents were very satisfied with the vaccine (IIV: 67.5% vs. LAIV: 68.8%, p = 0.320), and most parents would rather have their children vaccinated with LAIV for the next campaign (43.0%). The main reasons for vaccinating were to protect the child (LAIV: 85.9% vs. IIV: 89.4%), and the predominant reasons for not vaccinating were a lack of healthcare professional recommendation (30.9%), and lack of information about the vaccination campaign (21.5%) and the vaccine itself (21.0%). The clinical context of parents and children was determinant in decision making, which was also influenced by the presence or absence of recommendation by healthcare professionals. Parents were generally very satisfied with the vaccine and showed their preference towards LAIV for future campaigns. Full article
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The Influence of Social Media and Institutional Trust on Vaccine Hesitancy in France: Examining Direct and Mediating Processes
by Christopher J. McKinley, Elea Olivier and Jeremy K. Ward
Vaccines 2023, 11(8), 1319; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11081319 - 03 Aug 2023
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Vaccine hesitancy (VH) remains an ongoing challenge in French society. This project explored how institutional trust and preference for information via social media (PISM) drive hesitancy. Across a large, nationally represented population, our findings show that PISM and trust are strongly correlated measures, [...] Read more.
Vaccine hesitancy (VH) remains an ongoing challenge in French society. This project explored how institutional trust and preference for information via social media (PISM) drive hesitancy. Across a large, nationally represented population, our findings show that PISM and trust are strongly correlated measures, with both independently predicting VH. Subsequent mediation tests show that social media operates as primarily an indirect contributor to VH through trust. Additional tests involving VH and non-VH typologies revealed that institutional trust consistently predicts greater general support for vaccines and reduced distrust in vaccination. Conversely, PISM directly drives vaccine distrust, with its impact on non-hesitancy fully mediated by institutional trust. Overall, these findings point to the relevance for researchers and public health deciders to address the nature by which people utilize social media information resources and how that interacts with levels of trust for national institutions. Full article
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