Wang, Siyuan, Nicholas, Stephen, Maitland, Elizabeth 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1551-4787 and Leng, Anli
(2022)
Individual Preferences for COVID-19 Vaccination under the China's 2021 National Vaccination Policy: A Discrete Choice Experiment Study.
VACCINES, 10 (4).
543-.
Abstract
(1) Background: Since China's national vaccination policy announcement in January 2021, individual vaccination preferences related to vaccine characteristics, social relationships, sociodemographic characteristics and cognition remain opaque. This study aims to investigate vaccination preferences regarding these attributes, and to assess changes in individual vaccine preferences since the pre-2021 emergency vaccination phase. (2) Methods: The two-part questionnaire surveyed 849 individuals between May and June 2021 in Qingdao, China. The survey contained eight binary choice tasks that investigated preference trade-offs. Respondents' sociodemographic characteristics, including age, sex, urban/rural residence, income, education and whether living with the young or old, were also collected. Conditional logit, mixed logit and latent class models were used to quantify preference utility and identify preference heterogeneity. (3) Results: Vaccine effectiveness, vaccine side effects, duration of protection and probability of infection all significantly affected vaccination utility. Preference heterogeneity based on individual social relationships and sociodemographic characteristics were also established. Marginal analysis showed that compared to the pre-2021 phase, individuals' preferences had shifted towards vaccines with longer protection periods and better accessibility. (4) Conclusion: This study will inform the full rollout of China's 2021 national vaccination program and provide valuable information for future vaccination policy design to meet resurgent COVID-19 risks.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | vaccination preference, COVID-19, post-2021 national vaccination policy, vaccination preference changes |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 25 May 2022 10:35 |
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2023 09:12 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/vaccines10040543 |
| Open Access URL: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/10/4/543 |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3155448 |
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