Ending the Pandemic: How Behavioural Science Can Help Optimize Global COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

Letter Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Disproportionate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine distribution-A great threat to low- and middle-income countries

Prashant Upadhyay et al.

INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY (2022)

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Editorial Material Medicine, General & Internal

Problems With Paying People to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19

Emily A. Largent et al.

JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (2021)

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Article Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Looking beyond COVID-19 vaccine phase 3 trials

Jerome H. Kim et al.

Summary: Following the announcement of COVID-19 vaccine efficacy in clinical trials, a comprehensive strategy is needed for global vaccination, including manufacturing, support, supply coordination, equitable distribution, and logistics. Additionally, addressing scientific questions to improve vaccine efficacy is crucial for ending the pandemic effectively and efficiently.

NATURE MEDICINE (2021)

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Review Immunology

Confidence and Receptivity for COVID-19 Vaccines: A Rapid Systematic Review

Cheryl Lin et al.

Summary: While COVID-19 continues to spread globally, there is a decrease in vaccine acceptance rates, with significant demographic, socioeconomic, and partisan differences. Perceived risk, concerns over vaccine safety and effectiveness, and doctors' recommendations are key factors influencing vaccination decisions. Unique COVID-19 factors include political orientation, doubts about the expedited vaccine development process, and perceived political interference.

VACCINES (2021)

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Article Immunology

Persuasive messaging to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake intentions

Erin K. James et al.

Summary: Widespread vaccination is crucial for controlling the spread of COVID-19 and ending the pandemic. Persuasive messaging emphasizing the social benefits and image concerns of vaccination can effectively increase people's willingness to get vaccinated.

VACCINE (2021)

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Review Immunology

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Worldwide: A Concise Systematic Review of Vaccine Acceptance Rates

Malik Sallam

Summary: COVID-19 vaccine acceptance rates are generally high worldwide, but low rates are reported in the Middle East, Russia, Africa, and certain European countries. This could pose a significant challenge in global efforts to control the pandemic. More studies are recommended to address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in different regions.

VACCINES (2021)

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Article Pediatrics

Communicating With Vaccine-Hesitant Parents: A Narrative Review

Rupali J. Limaye et al.

Academic Pediatrics (2021)

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Review Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Vaccine Hesitancy, Acceptance, and Anti-Vaccination: Trends and Future Prospects for Public Health

Eve Dube et al.

Summary: Despite the clear benefits of vaccination that are widely acknowledged by the scientific and medical community, an increasing number of people are perceiving vaccines as unsafe and unnecessary. Refusal or hesitancy to vaccinate is identified as one of the ten threats to global health in 2019, with the negative influence of anti-vaccination movements being named as a cause of increasing vaccine resistance in the public.

ANNUAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC HEALTH, VOL 42, 2021 (2021)

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Editorial Material Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Sustained behavior change is key to preventing and tackling future pandemics

Susan Michie et al.

Summary: Collaboration among behavioral, social, biomedical, public-health, and clinical scientists is necessary to address the continuing threat from COVID-19 and future pandemics through investment in research and programs to discover and apply the principles that underpin sustained behavior change.

NATURE MEDICINE (2021)

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Editorial Material Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Looking to the empirical literature on the potential for financial incentives to enhance adherence with COVID-19 vaccination

Stephen T. Higgins et al.

Summary: This commentary addresses the gap in discussing the scientific evidence on the efficacy of financial incentives for increasing vaccine adherence. Studies on incentivizing vaccine adherence among injection drug users to the hepatitis B virus vaccine show significant benefits of financial incentives. This suggests that financial incentives could be helpful in promoting the high levels of adherence to COVID-19 vaccines needed for herd immunity.

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE (2021)

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Article Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology

Effect of vaccine effectiveness and safety on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in Detroit, Michigan, July 2020

Abram L. Wagner et al.

Summary: This study investigated whether acceptance of future COVID-19 vaccines was influenced by an experimental manipulation of vaccine safety and efficacy profiles. Results showed that factors such as gender, age, and beliefs about vaccines had an impact on vaccine acceptance, with lower acceptance rates observed in the Black community.

HUMAN VACCINES & IMMUNOTHERAPEUTICS (2021)

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Article Public, Environmental & Occupational Health

Effects of different types of written vaccination information on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK (OCEANS-III) : a randomised controlled trial

Daniel Freeman et al.

Summary: The study aimed to test which types of written information about COVID-19 vaccination might increase vaccine acceptance. Personal benefit information reduced hesitancy in strongly hesitant individuals more than information on collective benefits, demonstrating the importance of addressing individual concerns in vaccine messaging.

LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH (2021)

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Letter Medicine, General & Internal

Trends in Health Care Worker Intentions to Receive a COVID-19 Vaccine and Reasons for Hesitancy

Michelle N. Meyer et al.

JAMA NETWORK OPEN (2021)

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Review Immunology

Social media strategies to affect vaccine acceptance: a systematic literature review

Rupali J. Limaye et al.

Summary: This study focused on the influence of social media on vaccine acceptance or hesitancy, and suggests that social media may play a crucial role in influencing vaccine decision-making in the future.

EXPERT REVIEW OF VACCINES (2021)

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Article Engineering, Industrial

Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals

Shahriar Tanvir Alam et al.

Summary: This study combines DEMATEL and IFS methods to explore the key challenges of the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain, identifying 15 challenges including limited number of vaccine manufacturing companies, inappropriate coordination with local organizations, lack of vaccine monitoring bodies, difficulties in monitoring and controlling vaccine temperature, and vaccination cost and lack of financial support for vaccine purchase.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS (2021)

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Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

Emphasize personal health benefits to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates

Madison Ashworth et al.

Summary: The study found that public messages emphasizing the personal health benefits have the largest impact on increasing vaccine intentions. Additionally, public health messages have a positive effect on vaccine intentions.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (2021)

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Article Immunology

Older adults' vaccine hesitancy: Psychosocial factors associated with influenza, pneumococcal, and shingles vaccine uptake

Louise A. Brown Nicholls et al.

Summary: The study found that older adults had higher awareness and uptake of the influenza vaccine compared to the pneumococcal and shingles vaccines. A lower sense of collective responsibility independently predicted lack of uptake of all three vaccines. Interventions should be vaccine-specific and emphasize disease risks and vaccine benefits to increase vaccination uptake among older adults.

VACCINE (2021)

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Article Multidisciplinary Sciences

More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sandra Lopez-Leon et al.

Summary: This study aimed to identify studies assessing the long-term effects of COVID-19, estimating that 80% of infected patients will develop one or more long-term symptoms, with the most common being fatigue, headache, attention disorder, hair loss, and dyspnea.

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (2021)

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Article Immunology

Global Trends and Correlates of COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy: Findings from the iCARE Study

Jovana Stojanovic et al.

Summary: The study found substantial COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in multiple countries, with hesitancy increasing over time. Women, younger individuals, rural residents, and those with lower incomes were more likely to be hesitant, while individuals who had received influenza vaccines were less likely to hesitate.

VACCINES (2021)

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Article Psychology, Social

Fearing the disease or the vaccine: The case of COVID-19

Linda C. Karlsson et al.

Summary: Research shows that the perceived risk of COVID-19 and the safety of a prospective vaccine are key factors in determining the acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine.

PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES (2021)

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Article Psychology, Multidisciplinary

Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Vaccine Efficacy: Considerations for COVID-19

Annelise A. Madison et al.

Summary: Psychological factors can impact vaccine responses, with studies showing that stress, depression, loneliness, and poor health behaviors may weaken the immune system's response to vaccines, especially in vulnerable groups like the elderly. Intervention research suggests that psychological and behavioral interventions can increase vaccine efficacy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE (2021)

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Article International Relations

Encouraging COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Through Effective Health Communication

Matt Motta et al.

Summary: Messages emphasizing personal health risks and collective health consequences of not vaccinating significantly increase Americans' intentions to vaccinate. These effects are similar irrespective of message source and the inclusion of information to pre-empt potential misinformation. However, frames focusing on economic costs have no discernible effect on vaccine intention.

FRONTIERS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE (2021)

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Article Substance Abuse