Correlates of COVID-19 conspiracy theory beliefs in Japan: A cross-sectional study of 28,175 residents

• Yukihiro Sato ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ys@epid.work

  Affiliations Department of Social Medicine, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of International and Community Oral Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5657-8379

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• Ichiro Kawachi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Yasuaki Saijo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Eiji Yoshioka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Ken Osaka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of International and Community Oral Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Takahiro Tabuchi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Osaka, Japan, The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1050-3125

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