TY - JOUR
T1 - COVID-19 Vaccination Refusal
T2 - Which Factors are Related in the Czech Republic, One of the Most Affected Countries in the World?
AU - Zidkova, Radka
AU - Malinakova, Klara
AU - van Dijk, Jitse P.
AU - Tavel, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, project Selected psychological, social and moral aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and their consequences on health (grant number DSGC-2021-0122), and by the Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology of Palacky University Olomouc, internal project Social and Psychological Determinants of Health (grant number IGA-CMTF-2022-001).
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 Zidkova, Malinakova, van Dijk and Tavel.
PY - 2023/3/14
Y1 - 2023/3/14
N2 - Objective: This study examined the willingness to get vaccinated and the factors influencing this attitude in extreme settings—in the Czech Republic (at the time of the survey, the third-worst affected country in the world).Methods: We used national data from the general adult Czech population (N = 1,401) and measured attitudes towards vaccination, sociodemographic characteristics, government trust, knowledge about COVID-19 vaccines, personal characteristics, depression and anxiety.Results: Respondents who were more likely to refuse the vaccine were: female, younger, living without a partner, self-employed or unemployed, living in a town, believers outside the church, and did not trust the government, obtained information about the vaccine from social media, were extroverts and depressed. Conversely, respondents who were less likely to refuse the vaccine were: pensioners, people with higher education, respondents with better real knowledge about the COVID-19 vaccines, those who obtained information about the vaccine from an expert and those who had higher scores in neuroticism.Conclusion: This study thus offers a deeper understanding of the factors that might influence vaccine intention and subsequently the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
AB - Objective: This study examined the willingness to get vaccinated and the factors influencing this attitude in extreme settings—in the Czech Republic (at the time of the survey, the third-worst affected country in the world).Methods: We used national data from the general adult Czech population (N = 1,401) and measured attitudes towards vaccination, sociodemographic characteristics, government trust, knowledge about COVID-19 vaccines, personal characteristics, depression and anxiety.Results: Respondents who were more likely to refuse the vaccine were: female, younger, living without a partner, self-employed or unemployed, living in a town, believers outside the church, and did not trust the government, obtained information about the vaccine from social media, were extroverts and depressed. Conversely, respondents who were less likely to refuse the vaccine were: pensioners, people with higher education, respondents with better real knowledge about the COVID-19 vaccines, those who obtained information about the vaccine from an expert and those who had higher scores in neuroticism.Conclusion: This study thus offers a deeper understanding of the factors that might influence vaccine intention and subsequently the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
KW - COVID-19
KW - government trust
KW - knowledge
KW - personal characteristic
KW - vaccination
KW - vaccine refusal
U2 - 10.3389/ijph.2023.1605375
DO - 10.3389/ijph.2023.1605375
M3 - Article
C2 - 36999093
AN - SCOPUS:85151071711
SN - 1661-8556
VL - 68
JO - International Journal of Public Health
JF - International Journal of Public Health
M1 - 1605375
ER -