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. 2021 Sep 4;18(17):9342. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18179342

Table 2.

All factors derived from the literature.

Theoretical Constructs Reference of the Study
(1) Demographics
Age [9,19,20,21,22,24,25,26,27,28,37,38,39,40,43,45,46,47,49,50,51,53,54,55,57,58,59,61,62,64,65,66,68,69,71,72,73,75] *
Gender [9,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,37,38,39,40,43,44,45,46,47,49,50,51,52,53,61,62,63,65,66,68,69,72,73,75] *
Education level [9,19,21,23,24,25,27,28,39,43,44,45,46,47,50,51,52,53,55,56,58,62,63,65,66,69,70,72,73,75] *
Income level [21,23,28,39,43,45,46,50,51,55,56,60,61,63,66,69,75] *
Employment status [20,21,23,28,43,44,46,47,51,53,58,61,63,66,69,73] *
Socio-geographic (e.g., rural vs. urban) [9,21,24,25,27,28,39,45,46,47,51,52,53,55,62,63,66,69] *
Race/ethnicity [21,23,25,28,39,43,44,45,50,51,53,60,62,65,66,75] *
Having children [9,51,52,63] *
Religiosity [19,23,28,39,44,45,50,51] *
Marital status [9,21,23,25,28,38,43,45,46,51,61,63,69] *
Profession [9,22,24,25,27,28,37,38,40,43,58,71,72,73] *
Place of work [53,54,57] *
Smoking status [24,26,59] *
(2) Social factors
Social solidarity [44,51]
Socioeconomic status [20,37,50,68] *
Social density and prosocial concern [48,51] *
Child protection/parental concerns [47,52,60] *
Communication and media [26,44,62,68] *
Trust in government 35, [26,53,62,67] *
Political beliefs [19,43,44,45,49,50,51,56,65,67] *
Recent or upcoming travel [45]
Trust in scientists/WHO/CDC/FDA [19,25,26,39,50,51,53,55,59,60,65] *
Work stress/anxiety [52,54,73] *
(3) Vaccination beliefs and attitudes
Believing COVID-19 vaccination is unnecessary [57] *
Vaccine hesitancy [20,21,24,40,43,44,51,52,58] *
Personal belief against vaccines [20,23,66] *
Preference for natural immunity [44] *
Anti-vaccine attitudes or beliefs [21,51,71,72] *
Conspiracy beliefs [20,27,49,51,65] *
Vaccine confidence [24,27,51,54,55,60,65,66,69] *
(4) Vaccine-related perceptions
Vaccine efficacy/effectiveness [9,19,21,24,27,28,39,44,45,46,47,50,51,55,56,57,59,60,61,62,63,66,69,71,72,73,75] *
Vaccine safety [9,21,27,39,44,46,47,50,51,57,60,61,66,67,68,69] *
Vaccine price [27,45,46,47,55,61,63,66] *
Rapid development of the vaccine [9,44,51,60,61] *
Vaccine country origin/national [19,27,46,56,63,69] *
Vaccine adverse side effect [9,19,22,27,39,44,45,55,61,63,66,69,71,72] *
Frequency of injection [46,55,63] *
Long protection duration [19,45,55,63] *
Influenza vaccination history [9,19,21,22,37,39,40,46,47,53,56,57,62,63,71,72] *
(5) Health-related perceptions
Health history/medical conditions [23,26,43,45,53,57,58,68,69] *
High risk of COVID-19 infection [9,25,28,39,40,45,46,51,52,55,60,64,66] *
Being sick with COVID-19 [39,45,50,51,69] *
Insurance coverage [19,45,50,56,63,73,75] *
Family history of compromised immune systems [26,39] *
Contact with COVID-19 cases [9,19,39,46,51,53,57,66] *
Trust in homeopathy and naturopathy [26] *
Fear about COVID-19 (Self-protection) [26,40,43,52,56,58,60,62,64,66,68,69] *
(6) Perceived barriers
Financial barriers [50] *
Lack of trust [20,21,51] *
Misinformation [22,51,65,66,71,72] *
Concerns about commercial profiteering [44] *
(7) Vaccine recommendations
Vaccine recommendation by health professional/scientists [27,44,45,46,60] *
Vaccine recommendation by friends or family [55,60,66,69] *
Government advice to vaccinate [44,67] *
Mandatory by the government [27,44] *

(*) means the factor is significantly associated with intention to use COVID-19.