Mental distress, COVID19 vaccine distrust and vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: A causal mediation regression analysis

• Umakrishnan Kollamparambil ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, Adeola Oyenubi, Chijioke Nwosu

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Uma.kollamparambil@wits.ac.za

  Affiliation School of Economics & Finance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6201-1923

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• Adeola Oyenubi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, Adeola Oyenubi, Chijioke Nwosu

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation School of Economics & Finance, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6068-1723

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• Chijioke Nwosu

  Contributed equally to this work with: Umakrishnan Kollamparambil, Adeola Oyenubi, Chijioke Nwosu

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Impact Centre, Human Sciences Research Council, Cape Town and University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

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