Table 3.
Participant Responses to Investigator-Adapted Vaccine Hesitancy Questionnaire
| Vaccine Hesitancy Scale, Cronbach's alpha | 0.86 |
| Mean (SD) | 3.08 (0.75) |
| Median (range) | 3.00 (1.00–4.82) |
| Total (N=397) | |
| A lot of information about COVID-19 is being held back by the government, n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly agree | 89 (22.4) |
| (2) Agree | 106 (26.7) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 126 (31.7) |
| (4) Disagree | 63 (15.9) |
| (5) Strongly disagree | 13 (3.30) |
| The government cannot be trusted to tell the truth about COVID-19, n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly agree | 66 (16.8) |
| (2) Agree | 98 (24.9) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 125 (31.8) |
| (4) Disagree | 83 (21.1) |
| (5) Strongly disagree | 21 (5.30) |
| The government is hiding information about COVID-19, n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly agree | 64 (16.2) |
| (2) Agree | 104 (26.4) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 127 (32.2) |
| (4) Disagree | 77 (19.5) |
| (5) Strongly disagree | 22 (5.60) |
| Black people should be suspicious of information from the government about COVID-19, n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly agree | 57 (14.4) |
| (2) Agree | 99 (25.1) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 107 (27.1) |
| (4) Disagree | 95 (24.1) |
| (5) Strongly disagree | 37 (9.40) |
| When it comes to COVID-19, the government is lying to us, n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly agree | 40 (10.2) |
| (2) Agree | 83 (21.1) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 139 (35.3) |
| (4) Disagree | 93 (23.6) |
| (5) Strongly disagree | 39 (9.90) |
| COVID-19 is man-made, n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly agree | 60 (15.4) |
| (2) Agree | 84 (21.6) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 137 (35.2) |
| (4) Disagree | 74 (19.0) |
| (5) Strongly disagree | 34 (8.70) |
| There is a cure for COVID-19, but it is being withheld from black people, n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly agree | 21 (5.30) |
| (2) Agree | 42 (10.7) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 132 (33.5) |
| (4) Disagree | 131 (33.2) |
| (5) Strongly disagree | 68 (17.3) |
| When it comes to COVID-19, black people cannot trust health care providers, n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly agree | 33 (8.40) |
| (2) Agree | 57 (14.5) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 137 (34.8) |
| (4) Disagree | 120 (30.5) |
| (5) Strongly disagree | 47 (11.9) |
| When it comes to COVID-19, doctors have the best interests of patients in mind,a n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly disagree | 9 (2.30) |
| (2) Disagree | 37 (9.30) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 128 (32.3) |
| (4) Agree | 168 (42.4) |
| (5) Strongly agree | 54 (13.6) |
| When it comes to COVID-19, black people will receive the same medical care from health care providers as other groups,a n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly disagree | 43 (10.9) |
| (2) Disagree | 93 (23.6) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 117 (29.7) |
| (4) Agree | 103 (26.1) |
| (5) Strongly agree | 38 (9.60) |
| I have more trust in the Biden administration compared with the Trump administration when it comes to controlling the spread and treatment of COVID,a n (%) | |
| (1) Strongly disagree | 14 (3.60) |
| (2) Disagree | 27 (6.90) |
| (3) Neither agree nor disagree | 85 (21.6) |
| (4) Agree | 113 (28.7) |
| (5) Strongly agree | 155 (39.3) |
Adapted from: Bogart et al.26
a
Indicates responses were reverse coded to generate mean summary score.
SD, standard deviation.