Table 3.

Trust in potential sources of information on COVID-19 vaccine

Source:	Level of trust (trust completely(1)…not at all (5))										Mean	SD
	Completely (1)		A great deal (2)		Somewhat (3)		Very little (4)		Not at all (5)
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
The NHS	2084	41.9	1902	38.3	701	14.1	155	3.1	127	2.5	1.86	0.95
Doctors, nurses or other healthcare professionals	1918	38.6	2092	42.1	714	14.4	154	3.1	90	1.8	1.87	0.90
Scientific and medical advisers	1798	36.2	2101	42.3	792	15.9	160	3.2	121	2.4	1.94	0.93
The World Health Organisation (WHO)	1313	26.4	2016	40.6	1070	21.6	310	6.2	256	5.1	2.23	1.07
Pharmacists	999	20.1	1973	39.7	1434	28.8	341	6.9	226	4.5	2.36	1.02
The UK government	654	13.2	1542	31.1	1739	35.1	614	12.4	402	8.1	2.71	1.10
The Scottish Government/The Welsh Assembly*	118	17.4	189	27.9	207	30.5	88	13.1	75	11.1	2.72	1.21
Drug companies who manufacture vaccines	406	8.2	1064	21.4	2065	41.6	771	15.5	661	13.3	3.04	1.11
Family and friends	343	6.9	876	17.6	2230	44.9	977	19.7	542	10.9	3.10	1.04
The media (eg, newspapers, magazines, television, radio)	86	1.7	302	6.1	1567	31.5	1433	28.9	1580	31.8	3.83	1.00
Faith or community leaders	131	2.6	124	2.5	619	12.5	827	16.7	3264	65.7	4.40	0.98
Social media (eg, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)	65	1.3	69	1.4	506	10.2	1267	25.5	3056	61.6	4.45	0.83
Celebrities and social media influencers	60	1.2	71	1.4	493	9.9	1175	23.6	3170	63.8	4.47	0.82

Base: All participants (weighted). Missing cases range from n=3 to n=27. List order was randomised for each participant.

*Base: all participants in Scotland or Wales, n=679 (weighted).

NHS, National Health Service; SD, standard deviation.