The Influence of Vaccine-Critical Websites On Perception Of Vaccination Risks

Our analyses reveal that viewing typical vaccine-critical websites for only five to ten minutes increases the perception of risk regarding vaccinations and decreases the perception of risk regarding the omission of vaccinations as compared to visiting a control site. Moreover, acquiring information about vaccinations on a vaccine-critical website significantly decreased the intentions to vaccinate. Full Text of this paper published on One Click.

Cornelia Betsch, Frank Renkewitz, Tilmann Betsch, Corina Ulshöfer
University of Erfurt, Germany