COVID‐19 vaccination intention in the first year of the pandemic (search up to 31 December 2020)
Citation: Al‐Amer R, Maneze D, Everett B, et al. COVID‐19 vaccination intention in the first year of the pandemic: A systematic review. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2022;31(1-2):62-86.
Language: English.
Free to view: Yes.
What is this? Some people are hesitant about vaccination against COVID-19. Information on this may help policy makers who are implementing vaccination programmes.
In this systematic review, the authors searched for studies of the COVID-19 vaccination intention in all population groups. They restricted their searches to articles published in English or Arabic and did the most recent search on 31 December 2020. They included 30 studies, two of which were multi-national studies and the other studies were from Australia (1 study), China (2), Congo (1), France (2), Germany (1), Hongkong (1), Indonesia (1), Israel (1), Italy (1), Malta (1), Saudi Arabia (1), UK (3) and USA (9).
What was found: At the time of this review, these included studies, which were done during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, found that COVID-19 vaccination intention varied between 28% and 93%.
Vaccine intention was influenced by negative information about vaccination, socio-demographic factors, perception of risk and susceptibility to COVID-19.
Among healthcare workers, physicians had more intention to receive a COVID-19 vaccine than other healthcare workers and nurses had lower vaccination intentions.
This summary was prepared by Sophia Thomas, edited by Sydney Johnson and finalized by Mike Clarke.