Murphy, Jamie and Vallières, Frédérique and Bentall, Richard P. and Shevlin, Mark and McBride, Orla and Hartman, Todd K. and McKay, Ryan and Bennett, Kate and Mason, Liam and Gibson-Miller, Jilly and Levita, Liat and Martinez, Anton P. and Stocks, Thomas V. A. and Karatzias, Thanos and Hyland, Philip (2021) Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Nature Communications, 12 (1). ISSN 2041-1723

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Identifying and understanding COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy within distinct populations may aid future public health messaging. Using nationally representative data from the general adult populations of Ireland (N = 1041) and the United Kingdom (UK; N = 2025), we found that vaccine hesitancy/resistance was evident for 35% and 31% of these populations respectively. Vaccine hesitant/resistant respondents in Ireland and the UK differed on a number of sociodemographic and health-related variables but were similar across a broad array of psychological constructs. In both populations, those resistant to a COVID-19 vaccine were less likely to obtain information about the pandemic from traditional and authoritative sources and had similar levels of mistrust in these sources compared to vaccine accepting respondents. Given the geographical proximity and socio-economic similarity of the populations studied, it is not possible to generalize findings to other populations, however, the methodology employed here may be useful to those wishing to understand COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy elsewhere

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Cite as: Murphy J, Vallières F, Bentall RP, Shevlin M, McBride O, Hartman TK, McKay R, Bennett K, Mason L, Gibson-Miller J, Levita L, Martinez AP, Stocks TVA, Karatzias T, Hyland P. Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Nat Commun. 2021 Jan 4;12(1):29. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20226-9. PMID: 33397962; PMCID: PMC7782692.
Keywords:	Human behaviour; Social sciences;
Academic Unit:	Assisting Living & Learning,ALL institute Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology
Item ID:	16720
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20226-9
Depositing User:	Philip Hyland
Date Deposited:	21 Nov 2022 11:03
Journal or Publication Title:	Nature Communications
Publisher:	PubMed Central
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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