Parental COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Diverse Communities: A National Survey

Maurice, Annabelle de St; Block, Ray; Sánchez, Gabriel R.; Szilâgyi, Peter G.

doi:10.1016/j.acap.2022.06.016

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“…Differences may be expected between pregnant people and the general population, and other studies have also indicated increased caution of parents when deciding to vaccinate their children as opposed to themselves 48–51 . Not noted in other studies, we specifically identified a substantial number of people waiting until the second trimester, after the pregnancy or after breastfeeding.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…43 Differences may be expected between pregnant people and the general population, and other studies have also indicated increased caution of parents when deciding to vaccinate their children as opposed to themselves. [48][49][50][51] Not noted in other studies, we specifically identified a substantial number of people waiting until the second trimester, after the pregnancy or after breastfeeding. This may represent a lack of knowledge about the protective effect of the vaccine on pregnant people and their unborn, and a lack of safety data available to pregnant people.…”

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Social media and COVID‐19 vaccination hesitancy during pregnancy: a mixed methods analysis

Golder

McRobbie-Johnson

Klein

et al. 2023

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Objective To evaluate the reasons for COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy during pregnancy. Design We used regular expressions to identify publicly available social media posts from pregnant people expressing at least one reason for their decision not to accept COVID‐19 vaccine. Setting Two social media platforms – WhatToExpect and Twitter. Sample A total of 945 pregnant people in WhatToExpect (1017 posts) and 345 pregnant people in Twitter (435 tweets). Methods Two annotators manually coded posts according to the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) working group's 3Cs vaccine hesitancy model (confidence, complacency and convenience barriers). Within each 3Cs we created subthemes that emerged from the data. Main Outcome Measures Subthemes were derived according to the people's posting own words. Results Safety concerns were most common and largely linked to the perceived speed at which the vaccine was created and the lack of data about its safety in pregnancy. This led to a preference to wait until after the baby was born or to take other precautions instead. Complacency surrounded a belief that they are young and healthy or already had COVID‐19. Misinformation led to false safety and efficacy allegations, or even conspiracy theories, and fed into creating confidence and complacency barriers. Convenience barriers (such as availability) were uncommon. Conclusion The information in this study can be used to highlight the questions, fears and hesitations pregnant people have about the COVID‐19 vaccine. Highlighting these hesitations can help public health campaigns and improve communication between healthcare professionals and patients.

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Social media and COVID‐19 vaccination hesitancy during pregnancy: a mixed methods analysis

Golder

McRobbie-Johnson

Klein

et al. 2023

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“… [13] In one study, AI/AN parents expressed more willingness to have their children vaccinated then Non-Hispanic White or Black parents. [14] …”

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“…Little is known about the factors contributing to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among AI/AN parents. [14] Vaccine hesitancy has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) as “delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite availability of vaccine services.” [15] People can delay, be reluctant but still accept, or refuse vaccines. [15] Many factors contribute to vaccine hesitancy, including practical, psychological, sociocultural, political, and economic factors.…”

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COVID-19 vaccination in urban American Indian and Alaska Native children: Parental characteristics, beliefs and attitudes associated with vaccine acceptance

Collier,

Schaefer,

Uddin

et al. 2023

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“…It seeks to understand vaccine-hesitant individuals' unsettling perceptions with the purpose of offering them solutions and, by extension, increasing COVID-19 vaccine uptake. Survey investigations draw conclusions regarding the importance of, e.g., traditional pro-vaccination campaigns (Schmidtke et al 2022), multimedia vaccine promotions (Frankenthal et al 2022), improved education for health professionals (de St Maurice et al 2022), and governmental strategies to convince citizens to take the shot (Lindvall and Rönnerstrand 2022).…”

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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Hammarlin,

Kokkinakis,

Borin

2023

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In this article, hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccinations is investigated as a phenomenon touching upon existential questions. We argue that it encompasses ideas of illness and health, and also of dying and fear of suffering. Building on a specific strand within anti-vaccination studies, we conjecture that vaccine hesitancy is, to some extent, reasonable, and that this scepticism should be studied with compassion. Through a mixed methods approach, vaccine hesitancy, as it is being expressed in a Swedish digital open forum, is investigated and understood as, on the one hand, a perceived need of protecting one’s body from techno-scientific experiments, and thus the risk of becoming a victim of medicine itself. On the other hand, the community members express what we call a tacit belief in modern medicine by demonstrating their own “expert” pandemic knowledge. The analysis also shows how the COVID-19 pandemic triggers memories of another pandemic, namely the swine flu in 2009–2010, and what we term a medical crisis that occurred then, due to a vaccine that caused a rare but severe side effect in Sweden and elsewhere.

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Parental COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Diverse Communities: A National Survey

Cited by 8 publications

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Social media and COVID‐19 vaccination hesitancy during pregnancy: a mixed methods analysis

Social media and COVID‐19 vaccination hesitancy during pregnancy: a mixed methods analysis

COVID-19 vaccination in urban American Indian and Alaska Native children: Parental characteristics, beliefs and attitudes associated with vaccine acceptance

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

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