Crowdsourcing interventions to promote uptake of COVID-19 booster vaccines.

Behavioral interventions Booster vaccination COVID-19 Crowdsourcing

Journal

EClinicalMedicine
ISSN: 2589-5370
Titre abrégé: EClinicalMedicine
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101733727

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Nov 2022
Historique:
received: 27 04 2022
revised: 31 07 2022
accepted: 09 08 2022
entrez: 12 9 2022
pubmed: 13 9 2022
medline: 13 9 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake rates are behind the rate of primary vaccination in many countries. Governments and non-governmental institutions rely on a range of interventions aiming to increase booster uptake. Yet, little is known how experts and the general public evaluate these interventions. We applied a novel crowdsourcing approach to provide rapid insights on the most promising interventions to promote uptake of COVID-19 booster vaccines. In the first phase (December 2021), international experts ( Sanctions were evaluated as potentially most effective but least accepted. Evaluations by expert and general population samples were considerably aligned. Interventions that received the most positive evaluations regarding both effectiveness and acceptability across evaluation groups were: a day off work after getting vaccinated, financial incentives, tax benefits, promotional campaigns, and mobile vaccination teams. The results provide useful insights to help governmental and non-governmental institutions in their decisions about which interventions to implement. Additionally, the applied crowdsourcing method may be used in future studies to retrieve rapid insights on the comparative evaluation of (health) policies. This study received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (SFB F63) and the University of Vienna.

Sections du résumé

Background UNASSIGNED
COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake rates are behind the rate of primary vaccination in many countries. Governments and non-governmental institutions rely on a range of interventions aiming to increase booster uptake. Yet, little is known how experts and the general public evaluate these interventions.
Methods UNASSIGNED
We applied a novel crowdsourcing approach to provide rapid insights on the most promising interventions to promote uptake of COVID-19 booster vaccines. In the first phase (December 2021), international experts (
Findings UNASSIGNED
Sanctions were evaluated as potentially most effective but least accepted. Evaluations by expert and general population samples were considerably aligned. Interventions that received the most positive evaluations regarding both effectiveness and acceptability across evaluation groups were: a day off work after getting vaccinated, financial incentives, tax benefits, promotional campaigns, and mobile vaccination teams.
Interpretation UNASSIGNED
The results provide useful insights to help governmental and non-governmental institutions in their decisions about which interventions to implement. Additionally, the applied crowdsourcing method may be used in future studies to retrieve rapid insights on the comparative evaluation of (health) policies.
Funding UNASSIGNED
This study received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (SFB F63) and the University of Vienna.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36090456
doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101632
pii: S2589-5370(22)00362-5
pmc: PMC9444232
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

101632

Subventions

Organisme : World Health Organization
ID : 001
Pays : International

Informations de copyright

© 2022 The Author(s).

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

R.B., C.B., Y.L., G.C., J.L., M.S., and C.S. have nothing to disclose. P.S. reports personal fees from WHO outside the submitted work. N.B. reports personal fees from WHO, US CDC, Merck, and Novartis outside the submitted work. J.L. reports grants from WHO, UNICEF, and US CDC, as well as personal fees from Therapeutic Goods Administration outside the submitted work. G.L. reports non-financial support for Level2, as well as personal fees from Florida Blue and Highmark Health outside the submitted work. M.K. reports grants from Austrian Science Fund (grant no.: SFB F63) related to the submitted work.

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Auteurs

Robert Böhm (R)

Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.
Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen; 1354 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Cornelia Betsch (C)

Media and Communication Science, University of Erfurt, Germany.
Center for Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Sciences (CEREB), University of Erfurt, Germany.
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany.

Yana Litovsky (Y)

Department of Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Philipp Sprengholz (P)

Media and Communication Science, University of Erfurt, Germany.
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany.

Noel T Brewer (NT)

Department of Health Behavior, Gillings School of Global Public Health and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Gretchen Chapman (G)

Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Julie Leask (J)

Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Australia.

George Loewenstein (G)

Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Martha Scherzer (M)

Consultant, Behavioral and Cultural Insights Unit, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Cass R Sunstein (CR)

Harvard Law School, Harvard University, USA.

Michael Kirchler (M)

Department of Banking and Finance, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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