Health Literacy and Health Care System Confidence as Determinants of Attitudes to Vaccines in France: Representative Cross-Sectional Study

Health literacy involves individuals' knowledge, personal skills, and confidence to take action to evaluate and appraise health-related information and improve their health or that of their community. This study aimed to analyze the association between health literacy and attitude toward vaccin...

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Published in:JMIR public health and surveillance 2024-05, Vol.10, p.e45837-e45837
Main Authors: Khoury, Georges, Ward, Jeremy K, Mancini, Julien, Gagneux-Brunon, Amandine, Luong Nguyen, Liem Binh
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Aged
Attitudes
Confidence
COVID-19 vaccines
Cross-Sectional Studies
Delivery of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
Female
France
Health care
Health education
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Health literacy
Health Literacy - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Immunization
Internal validity
Male
Middle Aged
Multimedia
Original Paper
Personal health
Public health
Regression analysis
Surveys and Questionnaires
Vaccines
Vaccines - administration & dosage
Young Adult
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Summary:Health literacy involves individuals' knowledge, personal skills, and confidence to take action to evaluate and appraise health-related information and improve their health or that of their community. This study aimed to analyze the association between health literacy and attitude toward vaccines, adjusted with other factors. We used the SLAVACO Wave 3, a survey conducted in December 2021 among a sample of 2022 individuals, representative of the French adult population. We investigated factors associated with the attitude toward vaccines using respondents' different sociodemographic data, health literacy levels, and the health care system confidence levels using a multinomial logistic regression analysis. Among the participants, 440.4 (21.8%) were classified as "distrustful of vaccines in general," 729.2 (36.1%) were "selectively hesitant," and 852.4 (42.2%) were "nonhesitant." In our model, the level of health literacy was not statistically different between the "distrustful of vaccines in general" and the "selectively hesitant" (P=.48), but it was associated with being a "nonhesitant" (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] 1.86, 95% CI 1.25-2.76). The confidence in the health care system was a strong predictor for a "nonhesitant" attitude toward vaccines (aOR 12.4, 95% CI 7.97-19.2). We found a positive correlation of 0.34 (P
ISSN:2369-2960
2369-2960
DOI:10.2196/45837