Conspiracy narratives and vaccine hesitancy: a scoping review of prevalence, impact, and interventions

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Percentage of participants believing conspiracy narratives within articles using the Vaccine Conspiracy Beliefs Scale (VCBS)

	Fadhel (2021) [103]	Pickles et al. (2022) [92]	Caycho-Rodríguez et al. (2022) [94]
Vaccine safety data are often fabricated	29.9%	21.7%	24.7%—45.2%
Vaccines are harmful and this fact is hidden	14.5%	13.7%	4.8%—30%
Pharmaceutical companies cover up the dangers of vaccines	31%	27.9%	17.5%—36.9%
People are deceived about vaccine efficacy	26.3%	31.8%	16.5%—37.6%
Vaccine efficacy data are often fabricated	26.5%	21.2%	15%—32.3%
People are deceived about vaccine safety	25.4%	29.6%	14.6%—38.3%
The government is trying to cover up the link between vaccines and autism	Not measured	15%	12%—36.8%

Note: Table presents agreement to conspiracy narratives measured with the VBCS for the three studies using the scale. Reported items were adopted from the VBCS [103]. Agreement which is reported in range combined displays agreements of different subsamples

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