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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chen, Jen-Hao
• Shiu, Cheng-Shi

Titel

Race, ethnicity and COVID-19 vaccine concerns: A latent class analysis of data during early phase of vaccination

Ist Teil von

• SSM - population health, 2022-06, Vol.18, p.101073, Article 101073

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Racial gaps in vaccine uptake in the United States have been widely reported. Existing studies, however, have not explored how individuals’ concerns about COVID-19 vaccines are clustered. In this study, racial and ethnic background is linked to constellations of COVID-19 vaccine concerns during the early phase of vaccines in the United States, using the Household Pulse Survey (N = 60,492). Latent class analysis reveals five distinct classes of vaccine concerns: general skepticism, distrust of science and the government, safety, a desire to wait and see, and vague uncertainty. Compared to Whites, people of color more consistently report vaccine hesitancy due to safety and a desire to wait and see, rather than distrust of science and the government. Whites, however, more consistently report general skepticism and distrust of science and the government. Our findings suggest that distrust of science and government is not central to racial minorities' vaccine hesitancy, but it is so for Whites. •Studies of COVID-19 vaccine concern are limited by conceptualization and methodology.•We examine constellations of vaccine concerns by race/ethnicity using latent class analysis.•Results that vaccine concerns cluster in five distinct classes and vary by race/ethnicity.•Minorities do not show higher distrust of science and government than other groups.•Findings can inform interventions to increase vaccine uptake.