Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence & Complacency Scale
A printable PDF version of the Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence & Complacency Scale is available for download and use.
This is a fourteen-item measure, derived from a study with 5,114 UK adults, quota sampled to match the population for age, gender, ethnicity, income, and region. Item specific response options, coded from 1 to 5, are used. A ‘Don’t know’ option is also provided, which is excluded from scoring. Higher scores indicate a higher level of negative beliefs about a COVID-19 vaccine. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses identified four factors: collective importance of a COVID-19 vaccine (Cronbach’s alpha=.90); beliefs that the respondent may get COVID-19 and the vaccine will work (Cronbach’s alpha=.77); speed of vaccine development (Cronbach’s alpha=.88); and side effects (Cronbach’s alpha=.78). Full details of the questionnaire development can be found in the supplementary materials of the paper.
Reference: Freeman, D., Loe, B.S., Chadwick, A., Vaccari, C., Waite, F., Rosebrock, L., Jenner, L., Petit, A., Lewandowsky, S., Vanderslott, S., Innocenti, S., Larkin, M., Giubilini, A., Yu, L-M., McShane, H., Pollard, A.J., & Lambe, S. (2020). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: The Oxford Coronavirus Explanations, Attitudes, and Narratives Survey (OCEAN) II. Psychological Medicine.
1: Do you think you will be infected with COVID-19 over the next 12 months?
☐ Definitely
☐ Probably
☐ I may or I may not
☐ Probably not
☐ Definitely not
☐ Don’t know
2: The COVID-19 vaccine is likely to:
☐ Work for almost everyone
☐ Work for most people
☐ I am unsure how many people it will work for
☐ Not work for most people
☐ Not work for anyone
☐ Don’t know
3: The COVID-19 vaccine is likely to:
☐ Definitely work for me
☐ Probably work for me
☐ May or may not work for me
☐ Probably not work for me
☐ Definitely not work for me
☐ Don’t know
4: If I get the COVID-19 vaccine it will be:
☐ Really helpful for the community around me
☐ Helpful for the community around me
☐ Neither helpful nor unhelpful for the community around me
☐ Unhelpful for the community around me
☐ Really unhelpful for the community around me
☐ Don’t know
5: If individuals like me get the COVID-19 vaccine it will:
☐ Save a large number of lives
☐ Save some lives
☐ Have no impact
☐ Lead to more deaths
☐ Lead to a large number of deaths
☐ Don’t know
6: The speed of developing and testing the vaccine means it will be:
☐ Really good
☐ Good
☐ Will not affect how good or bad it is
☐ Bad
☐ Really bad
☐ Don’t know
7: The speed of developing and testing the vaccine means it will be:
☐ Really safe
☐ Safe
☐ It will not affect how safe it is
☐ Unsafe
☐ Really unsafe
☐ Don’t know
8: If many people do not get the vaccine this:
☐ Will be dangerous
☐ May be dangerous
☐ Will have no consequences at all
☐ May be good
☐ Will be good
☐ Don’t know
9: I expect that receiving the vaccine will be:
☐ Hardly noticeable
☐ A little unpleasant
☐ Moderately unpleasant
☐ Painful
☐ Extremely painful
☐ Don’t know
10: The side effects for people of getting the COVID-19 vaccine will be:
☐ None
☐ Mild
☐ Moderate
☐ Significant
☐ Life-threatening
☐ Don’t know
11: The COVID-19 vaccine will:
☐ Greatly strengthen my immune system
☐ Strengthen my immune system
☐ It will neither strengthen nor weaken my immune system
☐ Weaken my immune system
☐ Greatly weaken my immune system
☐ Don’t know
12: Taking the COVID-19 vaccine:
☐ Will give me complete freedom to get on with life just as before
☐ Will give me greater freedom
☐ Will have no effect on my freedom
☐ Will restrict my freedom
☐ Will completely restrict my freedom to get on with life
☐ Don’t know
13: Getting the vaccine is a sign of:
☐ Great personal strength
☐ Personal strength
☐ Not a sign of personal strength or weakness
☐ Personal weakness
☐ Great personal weakness
☐ Don’t know
14: Taking a new COVID-19 vaccine will make me feel like a guinea pig:
☐ Do not agree
☐ Agree a little
☐ Agree moderately
☐ Agree a lot
☐ Completely agree
☐ Don’t know