Expanding protection motivation theory to explain vaccine uptake among United Kingdom and Taiwan populations

Huang, P-C, Chen, I-H, Barlassina, L, Turner, JR, Carvalho, F, Martinez-Perez, A, Gibson-Miller, J, Kürthy, M, Lee, K-H, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524 and Lin, C-Y, 2023. Expanding protection motivation theory to explain vaccine uptake among United Kingdom and Taiwan populations. Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics, 19 (1): 2211319. ISSN 2164-5515

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Abstract

Vaccination can sufficiently ameliorate the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). Investigating what factors influence vaccine uptake may benefit ongoing vaccination efforts (e.g. booster injections, annual vaccination). The present study expanded Protection Motivation Theory with possible factors including perceived knowledge, adaptive responses, and maladaptive responses to develop a proposed model investigating vaccine uptake among United Kingdom (UK) and Taiwan (TW) populations. An online survey collected responses from UK (n = 751) and TW (n = 1052) participants (August to September, 2022). The results of structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that perceived knowledge was significantly associated with coping appraisal in both samples (standardized coefficient [β] = 0.941 and 0.898; p < .001). Coping appraisal was correlated with vaccine uptake only in the TW sample (β = 0.319, p < .05). Multigroup analysis showed there were significant differences between the path coefficients of perceived knowledge to coping and threat appraisals (p < .001), coping appraisal to adaptive and maladaptive responses (p < .001), as well as threat appraisal to adaptive response (p < .001). Such knowledge may improve vaccine uptake in Taiwan. The potential factors for the UK population require further investigation.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
Creators:	Huang, P.-C., Chen, I.-H., Barlassina, L., Turner, J.R., Carvalho, F., Martinez-Perez, A., Gibson-Miller, J., Kürthy, M., Lee, K.-H., Griffiths, M.D. and Lin, C.-Y.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Date:	2023
Volume:	19
Number:	1
ISSN:	2164-5515
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/21645515.2023.2211319 DOI 1764211 Other
Rights:	© 2023 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	22 May 2023 16:02
Last Modified:	08 Aug 2023 10:49
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49052

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