Affiliation:
1. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow , University Place, Glasgow G12 8QQ , UK
Abstract
Abstract
Vaccine fatigue is the propensity for individuals to start but not finish a vaccination program with several doses, which means they are less protected. Our study examines vaccine fatigue in the COVID-19 vaccination programme in Scotland. We model the attrition rates across multiple doses with a hierarchical binomial logistic regression model with correlated age- and area-specific random effects with conditional autoregressive priors, where inference uses integrated nested Laplace approximations. We find attrition rates smoothly decrease with increasing age, are much higher for the third dose than the second, and are generally higher for males than females.
Funder
University of Glasgow Maclaurin PhD Scholarship
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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