The Psychological Experience of COVID-19 Vaccination and Its Impact on the Willingness to Receive Booster Vaccines among the Chinese Population: Evidence from a National Cross-Sectional Study

Yudong Miao; Yi Li; Wanliang Zhang; Jian Wu; Jianqin Gu; Meiyun Wang; Wei Wei; Beizhu Ye; Chengyuan Miao; Clifford Silver Tarimo; Wenyong Dong

doi:10.3390/ijerph19095464

The Psychological Experience of COVID-19 Vaccination and Its Impact on the Willingness to Receive Booster Vaccines among the Chinese Population: Evidence from a National Cross-Sectional Study

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Apr 29;19(9):5464. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095464.

Authors

Yudong Miao^{1

2}, Yi Li^{1

2}, Wanliang Zhang^{1

2}, Jian Wu^{1

2}, Jianqin Gu³, Meiyun Wang⁴, Wei Wei⁴, Beizhu Ye^{1

2}, Chengyuan Miao^{1

2}, Clifford Silver Tarimo^{1

2}, Wenyong Dong⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Management, College of Public Health, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
² Henan Research Center for HTA, Zhengzhou 450001, China.
³ Research Center for Lifestyle Medicine, School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China.
⁴ Department of Hypertension, Henan Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450003, China.

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess the psychological experience of COVID-19 basic vaccination, the willingness to receive booster vaccines, and to determine their relationships among Chinese people. Between 6 August 2021 and 9 August 2021, a research firm performed a national cross-sectional online survey among Chinese individuals (aged over 18), using the snowball sampling approach, with 26,755 participants. Factor analysis and binary logistic regression were used to evaluate the existing associations. The overall COVID-19 vaccination psychological experience score of the participants was 25.83 (25.78~25.89; scores ranged from 7-35). A total of 93.83% (95%CI = 93.54~94.12) of respondents indicated a willingness to receive booster vaccines. After classifying psychological experiences associated with COVID-19 vaccination into positive and negative experiences and adjusting for confounding factors, for the former, the willingness to receive booster vaccines for participants with the highest scores of 13-15 was 3.933 times higher (OR = 3.933, 95%CI = 3.176~4.871) than participants who obtained scores of 3-9, and for the latter, the willingness to receive booster vaccines for participants with the highest scores of 19-20 was 8.871 times higher (OR = 8.871, 95%CI = 6.240~12.612) than participants who obtained scores of 4-13. Our study suggests that a good psychological experience with vaccination is positively associated with an increased willingness to receive booster vaccines.

Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccination; booster vaccines; psychological experience; willingness.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
COVID-19 Vaccines* / therapeutic use
COVID-19* / prevention & control
China
Cross-Sectional Studies
Humans
SARS-CoV-2
Vaccination

Substances

COVID-19 Vaccines

Grants and funding

The National Social Science Fund of China (Number 21BGL222), the collaborative Innovation Key Project of Zhengzhou (Number 20XTZX05015), and Henan Province-National Health Commission Joint Funding Project (SB201901072).