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

Matthew J. Hornsey, Josep Lobera and Celia Díaz-Catalán

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 255, issue C

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.

Keywords: Vaccine hesitancy; Complementary and alternative medicine; Trust in science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113019

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