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Vaccination Confidence Scale

The WHO Vaccination Confidence Scale (VCS) is a multi-domain instrument measuring three conceptually distinct dimensions of vaccine hesitancy: Confidence (trust in vaccine safety and effectiveness), Complacency (perceived need for vaccination), and Convenience (accessibility and practical barriers). Developed by the WHO SAGE Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy in 2015, it has become the international standard for measuring determinants of vaccination decisions across diverse populations and pathogen contexts.

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WHO Vaccination Confidence Scale (VCS)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / public-health
  • World Health Organization. (2015). Vaccine hesitancy: A growing challenge for immunization programmes. WHO SAGE Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy. Geneva: WHO. · URL
  • Larson, H. J., Jarrett, C., Schulz, W. S., Chaudhuri, M., Zhou, Y., Dube, E., ... & Wilson, R. (2015). Measuring vaccine hesitancy: The development of a survey tool. Vaccine, 33(34), 4165–4175. · DOI 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.04.037
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