Validity of the Spanish Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale

Individuals vary in the extent to which they have unfavorable attitudes towards vaccines. The Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale is a recently developed brief 12-item questionnaire created to better understand general vaccination attitudes. The current research aimed at providing a Spanis...

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Autores principales:	Borja Paredes, Miguel Ángel Cárdaba, Ubaldo Cuesta, Luz Martinez
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	vaccinations scale individual differences vaccine hesitancy validity Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:a9cc3da16c31454491e25e8d3c7613ee2021-11-25T19:10:22ZValidity of the Spanish Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale10.3390/vaccines91112372076-393Xhttps://doaj.org/article/a9cc3da16c31454491e25e8d3c7613ee2021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/11/1237https://doaj.org/toc/2076-393XIndividuals vary in the extent to which they have unfavorable attitudes towards vaccines. The Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale is a recently developed brief 12-item questionnaire created to better understand general vaccination attitudes. The current research aimed at providing a Spanish adaptation of the VAX Scale. After conducting an initial pilot study, Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that the Spanish version of the scale had good internal consistency and factor structure (Study 1), discriminant validity from other individual differences measures (such as the Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire and the Medical Mistrust Index) as well as good predictive validity of relevant vaccination-related outcomes (Study 2). In conclusion, in the present research, the Spanish version of the VAX scale proved to have a high internal consistency, showed convergent validity with other conceptually similar constructs, and successfully predicted vaccination intentions and vaccination decisions. Having this scale available in Spanish will allow researchers to analyze vaccination processes and vaccine hesitancy over a great number of people.Borja ParedesMiguel Ángel CárdabaUbaldo CuestaLuz MartinezMDPI AGarticlevaccinationsscaleindividual differencesvaccine hesitancyvalidityMedicineRENVaccines, Vol 9, Iss 1237, p 1237 (2021)
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spellingShingle	vaccinations scale individual differences vaccine hesitancy validity Medicine R Borja Paredes Miguel Ángel Cárdaba Ubaldo Cuesta Luz Martinez Validity of the Spanish Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale
description	Individuals vary in the extent to which they have unfavorable attitudes towards vaccines. The Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale is a recently developed brief 12-item questionnaire created to better understand general vaccination attitudes. The current research aimed at providing a Spanish adaptation of the VAX Scale. After conducting an initial pilot study, Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis showed that the Spanish version of the scale had good internal consistency and factor structure (Study 1), discriminant validity from other individual differences measures (such as the Beliefs about Medicine Questionnaire and the Medical Mistrust Index) as well as good predictive validity of relevant vaccination-related outcomes (Study 2). In conclusion, in the present research, the Spanish version of the VAX scale proved to have a high internal consistency, showed convergent validity with other conceptually similar constructs, and successfully predicted vaccination intentions and vaccination decisions. Having this scale available in Spanish will allow researchers to analyze vaccination processes and vaccine hesitancy over a great number of people.
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title_short	Validity of the Spanish Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale
title_full	Validity of the Spanish Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale
title_fullStr	Validity of the Spanish Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale
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Validity of the Spanish Version of the Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale

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