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Vaccine hesitancy is strongly associated with distrust of conventional medicine, and only weakly associated with trust in alternative medicine

Author
Hornsey, Matthew J.; Lobera Serrano, Josep untranslated; Díaz-Catalán, Celia
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Sociología
Publisher
Elsevier
Date
2020-05-05
Citation
10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113019
Social Science & Medicine 255 (2020): 113019
 
 
 
ISSN
0277-9536
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113019
Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113019
Subjects
vaccine hesitancy; complementary and alternative medicine; trust in science; Medicina; Sociología
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10486/691016
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© 2020 Elsevier

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Abstract

It is well established that people who use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are, on the whole, more vaccine hesitant. One possible conclusion that can be drawn from this is that trusting CAM results in people becoming more vaccine hesitant. An alternative possibility is that vaccine hesitancy and use of CAM are both downstream consequences of a third factor: distrust in conventional treatments. We conducted analyses designed to disentangle these two possibilities. Method We measured vaccine hesitancy and CAM use in a representative sample of Spanish residents (N = 5200). We also measured their trust in three CAM interventions (acupuncture, reiki, homeopathy) and two conventional medical interventions (chemotherapy and antidepressants). Results Vaccine hesitancy was strongly associated with (dis)trust in conventional medicine, and this relationship was particularly strong among CAM users. In contrast, trust in CAM was a relatively weak predictor of vaccine hesitancy, and the relationship was equally weak regardless of whether or not participants themselves had a history of using CAM. Conclusions The implication for practitioners and policy makers is that CAM is not necessarily a major obstacle to people's willingness to vaccinate, and that the more proximal obstacle is people's mistrust of conventional treatments
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