- Title
- COVID-19 vaccination willingness among Chinese adults under the free vaccination policy
- Creator
- Liu, Rugang; Zhang, Yuxun; Nicholas, Stephen; Leng, Anli; Maitland, Elizabeth; Wang, Jian
- Relation
- Vaccines Vol. 9, Issue 3, no. 292
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030292
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- (1) Background: China will provide free coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccinations for the entire population. This study analyzed the COVID-19 vaccination willingness rate (VWR) and its determinants under China’s free vaccination policy compared to a paid vaccine. (2) Methods: Data on 2377 respondents were collected through a nationwide questionnaire survey. Multivariate ordered logistic regression models were specified to explore the correlation between the VWR and its determinants. (3) Results: China’s free vaccination policy for COVID-19 increased the VWR from 73.62% to 82.25% of the respondents. Concerns about the safety and side-effects were the primary reason for participants’ unwillingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Age, medical insurance and vaccine safety were significant determinants of the COVID-19 VWR for both the paid and free vaccine. Income, occupation and vaccine effectiveness were significant determinants of the COVID-19 VWR for the free vaccine. (4) Conclusions: Free vaccinations increased the COVID-19 VWR significantly. People over the age of 58 and without medical insurance should be treated as the target intervention population for improving the COVID-19 VWR. Contrary to previous research, high-income groups and professional workers should be intervention targets to improve the COVID-19 VWR. Strengthening nationwide publicity and education on COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness are recommended policies for decision-makers.
- Subject
- COVID-19; vaccination willingness; free vaccination policy; determinant; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1454589
- Identifier
- uon:44971
- Identifier
- ISSN:2076-393X
- Rights
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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