Attitudes toward the global allocation of chinese COVID-19 vaccines: cross-sectional online survey of adults living in China
Background: COVID-19 vaccines are in short supply worldwide. China was among the first countries to pledge supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine as a global public product, and to date, the country has provided more than 600 million vaccines to more than 200 countries and regions with low COVID-19 vaccin...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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2022 Jun 7
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JMIR public health and surveillance
Year: 2022, Volume: 8, Issue: 6, Pages: 1-12 |
| ISSN: | 2369-2960 |
| DOI: | 10.2196/33484 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.2196/33484 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://publichealth.jmir.org/2022/6/e33484 
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| Author Notes: | Hanzhi Yu, PhD; Runming Du, BSc; Minmin Wang, PhD; Fengyun Yu, BSc; Juntao Yang, PhD; Lirui Jiao, BA; Zhuoran Wang, BSc; Haitao Liu6, PhD; Peixin Wu, MD; Till Bärnighausen, MD, ScD; Lan Xue, PhD; Chen Wang*, MD, PhD; Shannon McMahon, PhD; Pascal Geldsetzer, MD, PhD; Simiao Chen, ScD |
| Summary: | Background: COVID-19 vaccines are in short supply worldwide. China was among the first countries to pledge supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine as a global public product, and to date, the country has provided more than 600 million vaccines to more than 200 countries and regions with low COVID-19 vaccination rates. Understanding the public’s attitude in China toward the global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines could inform global and national decisions, policies, and debates. - Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of adults living in China regarding the global allocation of COVID-19 vaccines developed in China and how these attitudes vary across provinces and by sociodemographic characteristics. - Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional online survey among adults registered with the survey company KuRunData. The survey asked participants 31 questions about their attitudes regarding the global allocation of COVID-19 vaccines developed in China. We disaggregated responses by province and sociodemographic characteristics. All analyses used survey sampling weights. - Results: A total of 10,000 participants completed the questionnaire. Participants generally favored providing COVID-19 vaccines to foreign countries before fulfilling domestic needs (75.6%, 95% CI 74.6%-76.5%). Women (3778/4921, 76.8%; odds ratio 1.18, 95% CI 1.07-1.32; P=.002) and those living in rural areas (3123/4065, 76.8%; odds ratio 1.13, 95% CI 1.01-1.27; P=.03) were especially likely to hold this opinion. Most respondents preferred providing financial support through international platforms rather than directly offering support to individual countries (72.1%, 95% CI 71%-73.1%), while for vaccine products they preferred direct provision to relevant countries instead of via a delivery platform such as COVAX (77.3%, 95% CI 76.3%-78.2%). - Conclusions: Among our survey sample, we found that adults are generally supportive of the international distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, which may encourage policy makers to support and implement the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines developed in China worldwide. Conducting similar surveys in other countries could help align policy makers’ actions on COVID-19 vaccine distribution with the preferences of their constituencies. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 21.09.2022 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 2369-2960 |
| DOI: | 10.2196/33484 |