How Information Repertoire Affects Vaccine Hesitancy: Processes of Information Verification and Cognitive Elaboration.
Health Commun
; : 1-11, 2022 Dec 12.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2160631
ABSTRACT
As information consumption plays a critical role in addressing vaccine hesitancy in the hybrid media environment, it becomes crucial to understand how individuals' use of a combination of channels and sources affects their vaccine hesitancy. Based on information repertoire approaches emphasizing the multiplicity of channels and sources, we investigated different patterns of information repertoire related to the COVID-19 pandemic and how these patterns affected vaccine hesitancy through different informational mechanisms. Our results based on a U.S. sample suggest that while a richer information repertoire related to increased confidence in vaccines through increased information verification, this richness also corresponded with deepened vaccine hesitancy through heightened cognitive elaboration and perceived information inconsistency. Our findings support the utility of repertoire approaches for better understanding health information acquisition in the complex media ecology.
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Topics:
Vaccines
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English
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Health Commun
Journal subject:
Health Services Research
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Health Services
Year:
2022
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Article
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