Using behavioral insights to inform the COVID-19 vaccine response in Kosovo[1]: Population perceptions and interventions

Understand population perceptions in Kosovo[1] regarding COVID-19 vaccination to inform the pandemic response. Five rounds of a cross-sectional survey in representative samples of adults during 2020–2021. Analysis includes descriptive statistics, hierarchical cluster analysis, segmentation and logis...

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Veröffentlicht in:PEC innovation 2024-12, Vol.4, p.100279-100279, Article 100279
Hauptverfasser: Basholli, Florie Miftari, Berisha, Merita, Scherzer, Martha, Humolli, Isme, Ramadani, Naser, Habersaat, Katrine Bach, Kiss, Zsolt
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Zusammenfassung:Understand population perceptions in Kosovo[1] regarding COVID-19 vaccination to inform the pandemic response. Five rounds of a cross-sectional survey in representative samples of adults during 2020–2021. Analysis includes descriptive statistics, hierarchical cluster analysis, segmentation and logistic regressions. Self-reported intention to vaccinate increased after the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines in Kosovo.[1] In less than one year, vaccination intentions increased from 36% to 66% of those unvaccinated. Predictors for vaccine intentions included gender, age, trust in health authorities. Segmentation analysis identified population segments that had high vaccine nintentions but low uptake, informing messages and campaign initiatives designed to translate intentions into behavior. Identifying people's perceptions and behavior is essential to support evidence-based policy making, especially during outbreak response. BI is an innovative focus of research in Kosovo [1] where little BI data had been collected prior, and provided a unique understanding of population views, attitudes and behaviors related to COVID-19. These findings were not only essential for an evidence-based pandemic response but also laid the foundation for future broad application of BI to inform interventions that seek to enable, support and promote health-related behaviurs in Kosovo[1]
ISSN:2772-6282
2772-6282
DOI:10.1016/j.pecinn.2024.100279