Table 2.
Summary of vaccine hesitancy rates across different populations.
| Studies by population | Hesitancy rate, % (95% CI) | Heterogeneity (I2), % | Overall hesitancy rate, % (95% CI) | |||
| General population | 73.90 | 0.32 (0.25-0.39) | ||||
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Patwary et al, 2022 [73] | 0.382 (0.272-0.497) |
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Islam et al, 2023 [17] | 0.265 (0.22-0.31) |
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Kawuki et al, 2023 [32] | 0.29 (0.18-0.43) |
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Fajar et al, 2022 [74] | 0.25 (0.19-0.32) |
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Cénat et al, 2022 [75] | 0.423 (0.337-0.51) |
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| Older adults | N/Aa | 0.27 (0.16-0.39) | ||||
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Veronese et al, 2021 [76] | 0.27 (0.15-0.38) |
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| Black/African American people | N/A | 0.35 (0.25-0.44) | ||||
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Ripon et al, 2022 [77] | 0.35 (0.26-0.45) |
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| People with diabetes | N/A | 0.27 (0.14-0.40) | ||||
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Bianchi et al, 2023 [84] | 0.27 (0.156-0.419) |
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| Health care students | N/A | 0.26 (0.18-0.33) | ||||
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Patwary et al, 2022 [79] | 0.258 (0.185-0.338) |
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| Pregnant and breastfeeding women | N/A | 0.48 (0.43-0.53) | ||||
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Bianchi et al, 2022 [80] | 0.484 (0.434-0.534) |
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| Parents regarding vaccinating their children | 95.79 | 0..39 (0.07-0.70) | ||||
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Bianchi et al, 2023 [81] | 0.55 (0.43-0.66) |
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Galanis et al, 2022 [66] | 0.229 (0.173-0.29) |
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| Migrants | N/A | 0.31 (0.21-0.41) | ||||
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Hajissa et al, 2023 [71] | 0.31 (0.215-0.42) |
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| Health care workers | 97.30 | 0.29 (0.18-0.33) | ||||
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Bianchi et al, 2022 [78] | 0.13 (0.069-0.209) |
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Kigongo et al, 2023 [82] | 0.46 (0.38-0.54) |
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aN/A: not applicable.