Assessing How Risk Communication Surveillance Prompts COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance Among Internet Users by Applying the Situational Theory of Problem Solving: Cross-Sectional Study

Qiang Jin   ¹ , PhD ;   Syed Hassan Raza   ² , PhD ;   Muhammad Yousaf   ³ , PhD ;   Umer Zaman   ⁴ , PhD ;   Emenyeonu C Ogadimma   ⁵ , PhD ;   Amjad Ali Shah   ² , MPhil ;   Rachel Core   ⁶ , PhD ;   Aqdas Malik   ⁷ , PhD

¹ Intercultural Communication Research Center, Hebei University, Baoding, China

² Institute of Media and Communication Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

³ Centre for Media and Communication Studies, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Pakistan

⁴ Endicott College of International Studies, Woosong University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

⁵ College of Communication, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

⁶ Sociology & Anthropology Department, Stetson University, DeLand, FL, United States

⁷ Department of Information Systems, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman