Discrimination of a single-item scale to measure intention to have a COVID-19 vaccine
We recommend a 0-10 intention scale as a validated, practical measure of vaccination intention in public health practice, with a cutpoint of 8 on the scale as optimal, unless sensitivity and specificity are to be simultaneously optimized, when 6 is the optimal cutpoint.
Authors
- G. James Rubin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4440-0570)
- Susan M. Sherman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6708-3398)
- Nick Sevdalis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7560-8924)
- Julius Sim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1816-1676)
- Louise Smith (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1277-2564)
- Richard Amlôt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3481-6588)
Institutions
- National University of Singapore (SG)
- King's College London (GB)
- The Behavioural Insights Team (GB)
- Keele University (GB)
- University of Sheffield (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2025-05-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322503
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.17
Funders
- King's College London
- Keele University