Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey.
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SUBMITTER: Matthews LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9111381 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
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Belief correlations with parental vaccine hesitancy: Results from a national survey.
Matthews Luke J LJ Nowak Sarah A SA Gidengil Courtney C CC Chen Christine C Stubbersfield Joseph M JM Tehrani Jamshid J JJ Parker Andrew M AM
American anthropologist 20220226 2
We conducted a nationally representative survey of parents' beliefs and self-reported behaviors regarding childhood vaccinations. Using Bayesian selection among multivariate models, we found that beliefs, even those without any vaccine or health content, predicted vaccine-hesitant behaviors better than demographics, social network effects, or scientific reasoning. The multivariate structure of beliefs combined many types of ideation that included concerns about both conspiracies and side effects ...[more]
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