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Vaccine hesitancy is a common issue in many countries and is likely to hamper the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. This reluctance is alarming in diabetic patients who are more prone to severe forms of the disease. The aim of this study was to determine the COVID-19 vaccination rate in a population of diabetics followed for their diabetes and to analyze the factors associated with vaccine hesitancy. This cross-sectional, multicenter study, was carried out over 3 months (January 1st-March 31, 2022) in five consultation centers in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. All 254 patients with diabetes who had a consultation were included. There were more women than men (56.3%) and more with under high school diploma (72.8%). Among them, 2% had COVID-19 once and 14% had relatives affected with COVID-19;63.8% knew the symptoms of COVID-19 and the media (TV and social networks) were the main source of information (81.9%). Among the patients included, 51.9% were not vaccinated against COVID-19;25.9% refused vaccination while 12.0% were hesitant due to their diabetes. The reasons for refusal were: fear of side effects, questionable effectiveness of the vaccine and fear of injections.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Masson SAS
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While luxury is traditionally known as "extravagant” and "wasteful,” increasingly more researchers and practitioners have begun to refocus on the sustainable side of luxury and promote the idea of "positive luxury” (Batat et al., 2021). One effort is to adopt more positive business models, such as recycling/reusing/sharing luxury goods. Previously existing in the shadow of the primary market, the secondhand luxury market has grown rapidly in the past few years, and this trend accelerated after the COVID-19 outbreak. The emerging secondhand luxury market calls for more research as it has some distinguishing features. One of them is that information asymmetry regarding product quality is a big hurdle preventing many consumers from purchasing. This research uses a secondary dataset from a leading secondhand luxury goods resale platform to investigate factors influencing consumers' decision-making and how sellers can use information disclosure and pricing strategies to reduce frictions. Using negative binomial regression analyses, we detect a positive information disclosure effect. In particular, providing more product information through visual cues helps secondhand luxury sellers promote their products, as it reduces information asymmetry between sellers and buyers (Turunen & Poyry, 2019). However, this effect is moderated by the condition of secondhand luxury products. The information disclosure effect is weaker for products with better conditions, possibly because these products have relatively smaller product quality variation and less information asymmetry. Additionally, we find that different from the traditional luxury market, the overall price effect is negative in the secondhand luxury market. This could be because the negative substitution effect of price is stronger than the price-prestige effect in the secondhand market since the quality of secondhand luxury goods is typically lower and prevents high prices from providing prestige to consumers (Yao et al., 2022). Interestingly, this effect is also moderated by product conditions, possibly because consumers are willing to pay a higher price premium for high-quality products with better conditions to signal their tastes or status (Dubois et al., 2021, Vilkari, 2021). As the first empirical paper to analyze secondary transaction data to explore the pre-owned luxury market, this study's results have important managerial implications. Results suggest that sellers should be more transparent and provide more information about their products. The negative price effect among products in better condition is weaker than that for products in worse condition, suggesting that sellers of better or newer products could charge a higher price premium if they advertise more of a product's price-prestige value. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
ABSTRACT
Vaccine hesitancy is a common issue in many countries and is likely to hamper the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. This reluctance is alarming in diabetic patients who are more prone to severe forms of the disease. The aim of this study was to determine the COVID-19 vaccination rate in a population of diabetics followed for their diabetes and to analyze the factors associated with vaccine hesitancy. This cross-sectional, multicenter study, was carried out over 3 months (January 1st-March 31, 2022) in five consultation centers in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. All 254 patients with diabetes who had a consultation were included. There were more women than men (56.3%) and more with under high school diploma (72.8%). Among them, 2% had COVID-19 once and 14% had relatives affected with COVID-19;63.8% knew the symptoms of COVID-19 and the media (TV and social networks) were the main source of information (81.9%). Among the patients included, 51.9% were not vaccinated against COVID-19;25.9% refused vaccination while 12.0% were hesitant due to their diabetes. The reasons for refusal were: fear of side effects, questionable effectiveness of the vaccine and fear of injections. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Masson SAS