The effect of health literacy on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among community population in China: The moderating role of stress.
Vaccine
; 40(32): 4473-4478, 2022 07 30.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
The public's hesitant attitude is a major subjective barrier in promoting vaccination against COVID-19 to build herd immunity. The current study aimed to address how individual factors such as health literacy and perceived stress affect people's vaccine hesitancy of COVID-19 vaccine, and to provide insights for tailoring vaccine-promotion strategies.METHODS:
With structured questionnaires, an online survey was conducted to address the relationship between the health literacy, perceived stress, and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among community population in mainland, China. Moderated analysis was conducted to test the effect of health literacy on vaccine hesitancy among people with different levels of perceived stress.RESULTS:
560 responses were collected in total. 39.8% of the participants reported vaccine hesitancy, and this rate was higher among younger people and female. Moreover, people with higher level of health literacy showed reduced vaccine hesitancy, while this effect was only significant among those with low or moderate level of stress. For people with high level of stress, no significant effect of health literacy was found.CONCLUSIONS:
The findings suggest that increasing people's health literacy could lead to reduced vaccine hesitancy in community sample. However, this effect disappeared when the stress level was high, suggesting other promotion services may need to be developed to increase the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine. In conclusion, vaccine promotion strategies should be tailored for different populations, with taking account of individual's health literacy and perceived stress.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Contexto en salud:
1_ASSA2030
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2_ODS3
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4_TD
Problema de salud:
1_doencas_nao_transmissiveis
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2_enfermedades_transmissibles
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2_muertes_prematuras_enfermedades_notrasmisibles
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4_pneumonia
Asunto principal:
Vacunas
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Alfabetización en Salud
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COVID-19
Tipo de estudio:
Qualitative_research
Límite:
Female
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Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Vaccine
Año:
2022
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
China