Dear @COVID_19_Canada Vaccine Q&A friends
Just finished going through survey data for program participants (with Janet Cho, @emeraldclover5 @sillenojunior)
The Q&As resulted in a significant 12% shift toward intention to vaccinate.
For vax hesitancy that's big.
Way to go!
Just finished going through survey data for program participants (with Janet Cho, @emeraldclover5 @sillenojunior)
The Q&As resulted in a significant 12% shift toward intention to vaccinate.
For vax hesitancy that's big.
Way to go!
@COVID_19_Canada @emeraldclover5 @sillenojunior If this pattern held true for all 35,000 people we've spoken with since Jan 4, 2020, this means the program may have convinced more than 4,100 people to get vaccinated. The average age of respondents was 48. Estimated lives saved: 18-36.
Hopefully the 35,000 people we've spoken with went on to support others to get vaccinated too.
Participants were significantly more likely than controls to have previously had negative experiences with the healthcare system, but not with vaccines or with individual healthcare workers.
Anyway, the data are fascinating. Will post the preprint once we've finished writing.
Anyway, the data are fascinating. Will post the preprint once we've finished writing.
Considering we reached 35K people mainly through word of mouth, social media and unions, that the work was almost all volunteer-led and -staffed and didn't have funds for systematic outreach I think this means it would be worth incorporating this approach into formal vax drives.
Anyway, this is just posting results by Twitter and y'all have to see the study to judge, but I was excited and wanted to share the first view of the data!
Finally, the participants were significantly more likely than control non-participants to be unsure or strongly against vaccination. Most of the shift was in people who were unsure and shifted to the "definitely intend to get vaccinated" category.
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