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. 2021 Apr:83:104180.
doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104180. Epub 2020 Sep 13.

Beyond fragmentary: A proposed measure for travel vaccination concerns

Charles Atanga Adongo  1 , Edem Kwesi Amenumey  1 , Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme  2 , Eve Dubé  3
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Beyond fragmentary: A proposed measure for travel vaccination concerns

Charles Atanga Adongo et al. Tour Manag. 2021 Apr.

Abstract

The travel medicine literature points to travelers' concerns as significant promoters of their under-vaccinations. Therefore, this study researches the hitherto understudied concept of vaccination concern and its theoretical scope in the international travel space. It attempts a conceptualization of the concept by delimiting its theoretical scope and proposes a measure for it. An exploratory sequential mixed-methods design was used to conduct four interlocking studies using data from a netnography, field interviews, and surveys among varied international travelers. A scale with six dimensions, comprising safety, efficacy, cost, time, access, and autonomy concerns were revealed. The scale significantly explained mainstream and segments-based tourists' uptake attitudes and behavior for their eligible vaccines. The findings suggest that anti-travel vax sentiments and public vax sentiments despite conceptually similar are considerably distinct. The broad nature of the scale and its prediction of travelers' vaccine uptake make it clinically relevant for tracking and resolving concerns for increased vaccine uptake.

Keywords: Backpacking; COVID-19; Infectious disease; Scale; Travel; Vaccine.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that we have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the findings reported in this paper.

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Research design for the study Source: Adapted from Churchill et al., (1979); Johnson and Onwuegbuzie (2004) and Dayour et al. (2019). Note: QUANT stands for Quantitative and qual stands for Qualitative, and upper case shows where emphasis lay.
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Adapted PRISMA 2009 flow diagram for the travel vaccination concern literature review.
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Second-order CFA model of travel vaccination concerns.
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