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dc.contributor.authorHamilton, Kyra
dc.contributor.authorHagger, Martin S.
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-26T11:11:38Z
dc.date.available2022-04-26T11:11:38Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.citationHamilton, K., & Hagger, M. S. (2022). The Vaccination Concerns in COVID-19 Scale (VaCCS) : Development and validation. <i>PLoS ONE</i>, <i>17</i>(3), Article e0264784. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264784" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264784</a>
dc.identifier.otherCONVID_118869289
dc.identifier.urihttps://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/80727
dc.description.abstractVaccines are highly effective in minimizing serious cases of COVID-19 and pivotal to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite widespread availability, vaccination rates fall short of levels required to bring about widespread immunity, with low rates attributed to vaccine hesitancy. It is therefore important to identify the beliefs and concerns associated with vaccine intentions and uptake. The present study aimed to develop and validate, using the AMEE Guide, the Vaccination Concerns in COVID-19 Scale (VaCCS), a comprehensive measure of beliefs and concerns with respect to COVID-19 vaccines. In the scale development phase, samples of Australian (N = 53) and USA (N = 48) residents completed an initial open-response survey to elicit beliefs and concerns about COVID-19 vaccines. A concurrent rapid literature review was conducted to identify content from existing scales on vaccination beliefs. An initial pool of items was developed informed by the survey responses and rapid review. The readability and face validity of the item pool was assessed by behavioral science experts (N = 5) and non-experts (N = 10). In the scale validation phase, samples of Australian (N = 522) and USA (N = 499) residents completed scaled versions of the final item pool and measures of socio-political, health beliefs and outcomes, and trait measures. Exploratory factor analysis yielded a scale comprising 35 items with 8 subscales, and subsequent confirmatory factor analyses indicated acceptable fit of the scale structure with the data in each sample and factorial invariance across samples. Concurrent and predictive validity tests indicated a theoretically and conceptually predictable pattern of relations between the VaCCS subscales with the socio-political, health beliefs and outcomes, and trait measures, and key subscales predicted intentions to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The VaCCS provides a novel measure to assess beliefs and concerns toward COVID-19 vaccination that researchers and practitioners can use in its entirety or select specific sub-scales to use according to their needs.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science (PLoS)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPLoS ONE
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.titleThe Vaccination Concerns in COVID-19 Scale (VaCCS) : Development and validation
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:jyu-202204262401
dc.contributor.laitosLiikuntatieteellinen tiedekuntafi
dc.contributor.laitosFaculty of Sport and Health Sciencesen
dc.contributor.oppiaineLiikuntapsykologiafi
dc.contributor.oppiaineSport and Exercise Psychologyen
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle
dc.type.coarhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1
dc.description.reviewstatuspeerReviewed
dc.relation.issn1932-6203
dc.relation.numberinseries3
dc.relation.volume17
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
dc.rights.copyright© 2022 the Authors
dc.rights.accesslevelopenAccessfi
dc.subject.ysorokotevastaisuus
dc.subject.ysoCOVID-19
dc.subject.ysorokotteet
dc.subject.ysoterveyskäyttäytyminen
dc.subject.ysoterveyskäsitykset
dc.format.contentfulltext
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p39122
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p38829
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p15634
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p11100
jyx.subject.urihttp://www.yso.fi/onto/yso/p26365
dc.rights.urlhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.relation.datasethttps://osf.io/k96bn/
dc.relation.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0264784
jyx.fundinginformationThe author(s) received no specific funding for this work.
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