Cornelia Betsch

TL;DR: Many different psychological, contextual, sociodemographic and physical barriers that are specific to certain risk groups were identified and map knowledge gaps in understanding influenza vaccine hesitancy to derive directions for further research and inform interventions in this area.

TL;DR: The 5C scale provides a novel tool to monitor psychological antecedents of vaccination and facilitates diagnosis, intervention design and evaluation and its short version is suitable for field settings and regular global monitoring of relevant antecedent vaccination.

TL;DR: This large-scale Internet-experiment tests whether vaccine-critical pages raise perceptions of the riskiness of vaccinations and alter vaccination intentions and reveals that accessing vaccine- critical websites for five to 10 minutes increases the perception of risk of vaccinating and decreases the perceived risk of omitting vaccinations.

TL;DR: The authors conclude that, as a result of the Internet and Web 2.0, private and public concerns surrounding vaccinations have the potential to virally spread across the globe in a quick, efficient and vivid manner.

TL;DR: It is suggested that there are several interventions that may be effective for complacent, convenient, and calculating individuals whereas interventions that might beeffective for those who lack confidence are scarce, and efforts should be concentrated on motivating the complacent.