A review of barriers and facilitators towards COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

​Key Findings

1. Individual factors bore the most influence on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: personal characteristics and preferences, concerns with COVID-19 vaccines, history/experience of vaccination, knowledge/perception on COVID-19 and health-related information.

2. Other factors included: (a) influence from family/friends, (b) trust in government, (c) impact of media, (d) rate of community vaccination, and (e) politics​.
   

3. Influence of factors goes both ways (e.g. high rate of vaccination can encourage or discourage acceptance).
   

SOURCE:
GERI

DOI:
GERI Research Brief 2022-12-001 [PDF, 621 KB]

AUTHOR(S):
Dr Jonathan Gao