Exploring Vaccine Confidence and Uptake of Potential COVID-19 Vaccines

Completed

Conditions studied: Coronavirus

In brief

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted deleterious US health inequities. Specifically, African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans have and continue to shoulder a greater burden of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the US. In addition to existing racial and ethnic disparities are rural health and regional disparities. Given the disproportionate impact of disease in US communities of color and also in rural and southern regions of the US, there is no doubt that these at-risk subgroups will continue to experience higher rates of coronavirus-related mortality as well as other long-term health outcomes as compared to other US populations. It is unknown how healthcare providers and other key at-risk subgroups within the US will receive COVID-19 vaccines. For success in immunizations, the US will need to reach their most at-risk and vulnerable populations. In addition to at-risk populations, a successful immunization strategy will involve engaging providers to support clear, consistent, and strong vaccine recommendation. It is critical to build vaccine trust, confidence, and overall acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines among healthcare providers and key at-risk subgroups, especially given the accelerated production timeline of these vaccines. Likewise, tailored vaccine messaging for key subgroups is vital in achieving vaccine confidence and trust. The proposed study will explore perceptions, confidence, trust, and uptake of potential COVID-19 vaccines among healthcare providers (nurses and doctors) and key at-risk population subgroups (minority populations living in the rural south) and will develop and test vaccine messaging that boosts vaccine confidence and trust among these key at-risk subgroups.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04731870

Run by

East Carolina University

People needed

632

Starts

2021-02-28

Expected to finish

2023-03-31

Last updated by the study team

2023-07-27

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Nurses (at least 50% from the south),
• Primary Care/Family Physicians (at least 50% from the south),
• Rural, low-income, minority men and women living in the south (income of $25K per year or less and 70% of respondents will be Black, Latina, or Native American) and
• Urban, low-income minority men and women living in the south (income of $25K per year or less and 70% of respondents will be Black, Latina, or Native American).

Where it is running

• Carol Belk Building — Greenville, North Carolina, United States

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