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Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against COVID-19
Background: The control of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a great challenge. Understanding the thoughts and beliefs underlying vaccine hesitancy can help in the formulation of public policies. The present study aimed to analyze the social representations of hesitant Brazilians about vaccination agai...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10340750/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37444052 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20136204 |
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author | dos Santos, Keila Cristina Oliveira Junqueira-Marinho, Maria de Fátima Reis, Adriana Teixeira Camacho, Karla Gonçalves Nehab, Marcio Fernandes Abramov, Dimitri Marques de Azevedo, Zina Maria Almeida de Menezes, Livia Almeida Salú, Margarida dos Santos Figueiredo, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Moreira, Maria Elisabeth Lopes de Vasconcelos, Zilton Farias Meira de Carvalho, Flavia Amendola Anisio de Mello, Livia de Rezende Correia, Roberta Fernandes Gomes Junior, Saint Clair dos Santos Moore, Daniella Campelo Batalha Cox |
author_facet | dos Santos, Keila Cristina Oliveira Junqueira-Marinho, Maria de Fátima Reis, Adriana Teixeira Camacho, Karla Gonçalves Nehab, Marcio Fernandes Abramov, Dimitri Marques de Azevedo, Zina Maria Almeida de Menezes, Livia Almeida Salú, Margarida dos Santos Figueiredo, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Moreira, Maria Elisabeth Lopes de Vasconcelos, Zilton Farias Meira de Carvalho, Flavia Amendola Anisio de Mello, Livia de Rezende Correia, Roberta Fernandes Gomes Junior, Saint Clair dos Santos Moore, Daniella Campelo Batalha Cox |
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description | Background: The control of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a great challenge. Understanding the thoughts and beliefs underlying vaccine hesitancy can help in the formulation of public policies. The present study aimed to analyze the social representations of hesitant Brazilians about vaccination against COVID-19. Methods: Qualitative research guided by the Theory of Social Representations, carried out through an online survey among Brazilian adults living in Brazil. The data were analyzed using the IRaMuTeQ software. Results: Of the 173,178 respondents, 10,928 were hesitant and declared reasons for vaccination hesitation. The analysis generated three classes: mistrust of the vaccine and underestimation of the severity of the pandemic; (dis)information and distrust of political involvement; and fear of adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines. Conclusions: Social knowledge, presented by the representations apprehended in this study, demonstrates difficulty in discerning the reliability of information and a social imagination full of doubts and uncertainties. Understanding the internal dynamics of these groups, with their representations of the world, is important to propose policies and actions that echo and cause changes in the understanding of the role of immunization. It is essential to shed light on the sociological imagination so that gaps filled with false information can be dismantled and confronted with scientific knowledge accessible to the population. |
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spelling | pubmed-103407502023-07-14 Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against COVID-19 dos Santos, Keila Cristina Oliveira Junqueira-Marinho, Maria de Fátima Reis, Adriana Teixeira Camacho, Karla Gonçalves Nehab, Marcio Fernandes Abramov, Dimitri Marques de Azevedo, Zina Maria Almeida de Menezes, Livia Almeida Salú, Margarida dos Santos Figueiredo, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Moreira, Maria Elisabeth Lopes de Vasconcelos, Zilton Farias Meira de Carvalho, Flavia Amendola Anisio de Mello, Livia de Rezende Correia, Roberta Fernandes Gomes Junior, Saint Clair dos Santos Moore, Daniella Campelo Batalha Cox Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Background: The control of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a great challenge. Understanding the thoughts and beliefs underlying vaccine hesitancy can help in the formulation of public policies. The present study aimed to analyze the social representations of hesitant Brazilians about vaccination against COVID-19. Methods: Qualitative research guided by the Theory of Social Representations, carried out through an online survey among Brazilian adults living in Brazil. The data were analyzed using the IRaMuTeQ software. Results: Of the 173,178 respondents, 10,928 were hesitant and declared reasons for vaccination hesitation. The analysis generated three classes: mistrust of the vaccine and underestimation of the severity of the pandemic; (dis)information and distrust of political involvement; and fear of adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines. Conclusions: Social knowledge, presented by the representations apprehended in this study, demonstrates difficulty in discerning the reliability of information and a social imagination full of doubts and uncertainties. Understanding the internal dynamics of these groups, with their representations of the world, is important to propose policies and actions that echo and cause changes in the understanding of the role of immunization. It is essential to shed light on the sociological imagination so that gaps filled with false information can be dismantled and confronted with scientific knowledge accessible to the population. MDPI 2023-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC10340750/ /pubmed/37444052 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20136204 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article dos Santos, Keila Cristina Oliveira Junqueira-Marinho, Maria de Fátima Reis, Adriana Teixeira Camacho, Karla Gonçalves Nehab, Marcio Fernandes Abramov, Dimitri Marques de Azevedo, Zina Maria Almeida de Menezes, Livia Almeida Salú, Margarida dos Santos Figueiredo, Carlos Eduardo da Silva Moreira, Maria Elisabeth Lopes de Vasconcelos, Zilton Farias Meira de Carvalho, Flavia Amendola Anisio de Mello, Livia de Rezende Correia, Roberta Fernandes Gomes Junior, Saint Clair dos Santos Moore, Daniella Campelo Batalha Cox Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against COVID-19 |
title | Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against COVID-19 |
title_full | Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against COVID-19 |
title_fullStr | Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against COVID-19 |
title_full_unstemmed | Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against COVID-19 |
title_short | Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against COVID-19 |
title_sort | social representations of hesitant brazilians about vaccination against covid-19 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10340750/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37444052 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20136204 |
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