Relationships between views on fairness of restrictions, trust in NHS COVID-19 information and support for COVID-19 control and vaccination measures
Low trust in NHS COVID-19 information (%) | Unfairly restricted a lot by government (%) | Social distancing should end (%) | Mandatory face coverings should go (%) | Break restrictions at least occasionally (%) | Vaccine hesitancy (%) | ||
All (n=2285) | 5.82 | 9.41 | 5.91 | 5.82 | 25.86 | 7.75 | |
Low trust in NHS COVID-19 information | No | 7.81 | 4.51 | 4.32 | 24.86 | 5.62 | |
Yes | 35.34 | 28.57 | 30.08 | 42.11 | 42.11 | ||
X2 | 111.387 | 130.480 | 151.552 | 19.426 | 233.296 | ||
P value | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||
Unfairly restricted a lot by government | No* | 4.15 | 3.91 | 3.77 | 24.40 | 5.80 | |
Yes | 21.86 | 25.12 | 25.58 | 40.00 | 26.51 | ||
X2 | 111.387 | 157.517 | 169.061 | 24.732 | 116.950 | ||
P value | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
See online supplemental appendix table A1 for full wording of all questions and classification of responses.
*Includes those who responded ‘yes, a little’.
NHS, National Health Service.