A review of barriers and facilitators towards COVID-19 vaccine acceptance

16 January 2023

Key Findings

Individual factors bore the most influence on COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: personal characteristics and preferences, concerns with COVID-19 vaccines, history/experience of vaccination, knowledge/perception on COVID-19 and health-related information.
Other factors included: (a) influence from family/friends, (b) trust in government, (c) impact of media, (d) rate of community vaccination, and (e) politics.
Influence of factors goes both ways (e.g. high rate of vaccination can encourage or discourage acceptance).

SOURCE:
GERI

DOI:
GERI Research Brief 2022-12-001 [PDF, 621 KB]

AUTHOR(S):
Dr Jonathan Gao