COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: How Institutional Trust and a Sense of Community Responsibility Predict Perceptions of Safety and Vaccination Status

The study tested a path model to predict COVID-19 vaccination status among low-income public housing residents in Virginia, United States. Perceptions of trust in four categories (distal organizational, distal personal, local organizational, local personal) predicted beliefs of vaccine safety and efficacy, which in turn predicted vaccination status.