COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Disadvantaged Groups’ Experience with Perceived Barriers, Cues to Action, and Attitudes

• Published in: American journal of health promotion Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 488 - 498
• Main Authors: Coman, Ioana A, Xu, Shan, Yamamoto, Masahiro
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.05.2023; American Journal of Health Promotion
• Subjects: Action; Attitudes; Barriers; Black people; Communication; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - prevention & control; COVID-19 Vaccines; Cross-Sectional Studies; Cues; Disadvantaged; Factor analysis; Health belief model; Health beliefs; Health promotion; Humans; Immunization; Quantitative Research; Religion; Spirituality; Vaccination; Vaccine hesitancy; United States > US; vaccine promotion; COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy; HBM; health disparities; barriers; cues to action; disadvantaged groups; underserved populations

Purpose Drawing from the Health Belief Model, we explored how disadvantaged groups in the U.S., including Black, Hispanic, less educated and wealthy individuals, experienced perceived barriers and cues to action in the context of the COVID-19 vaccination. Design A cross-sectional survey administered...