What Indians Think of the COVID-19 vaccine: A qualitative study comprising focus group discussions and thematic analysis

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The study aims to interpret current knowledge, attitude, perceptions and concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccine in the Indian population. METHODS: Eight focus group discussions were conducted. Participants were recruited via purposive sampling. Discussions were recorded and transcr...

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Autores principales: Kumari, Archana, Ranjan, Piyush, Chopra, Sakshi, Kaur, Divjyot, Kaur, Tanveer, Kalanidhi, Kamal Bandhu, Goel, Aastha, Singh, Amandeep, Baitha, Upendra, Prakash, Bindu, Vikram, Naval K.
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Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Diabetes India. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7997146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33813241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2021.03.021
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author Kumari, Archana
Ranjan, Piyush
Chopra, Sakshi
Kaur, Divjyot
Kaur, Tanveer
Kalanidhi, Kamal Bandhu
Goel, Aastha
Singh, Amandeep
Baitha, Upendra
Prakash, Bindu
Vikram, Naval K.
author_facet Kumari, Archana
Ranjan, Piyush
Chopra, Sakshi
Kaur, Divjyot
Kaur, Tanveer
Kalanidhi, Kamal Bandhu
Goel, Aastha
Singh, Amandeep
Baitha, Upendra
Prakash, Bindu
Vikram, Naval K.
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description BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The study aims to interpret current knowledge, attitude, perceptions and concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccine in the Indian population. METHODS: Eight focus group discussions were conducted. Participants were recruited via purposive sampling. Discussions were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Key themes were extracted using thematic analysis method. RESULTS: There were 19 males and 24 females, with a mean age of 36 ± 11 years. Sub-themes identified were knowledge, attitude, perception and concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccine, leading to the main theme, i.e., views about the COVID-19 vaccine. CONCLUSION: People have mixed perceptions regarding COVID-19 vaccine. Channelling correct messages may improve people’s willingness to get vaccinated.
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spelling pubmed-79971462021-03-29 What Indians Think of the COVID-19 vaccine: A qualitative study comprising focus group discussions and thematic analysis Kumari, Archana Ranjan, Piyush Chopra, Sakshi Kaur, Divjyot Kaur, Tanveer Kalanidhi, Kamal Bandhu Goel, Aastha Singh, Amandeep Baitha, Upendra Prakash, Bindu Vikram, Naval K. Diabetes Metab Syndr Article BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The study aims to interpret current knowledge, attitude, perceptions and concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccine in the Indian population. METHODS: Eight focus group discussions were conducted. Participants were recruited via purposive sampling. Discussions were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Key themes were extracted using thematic analysis method. RESULTS: There were 19 males and 24 females, with a mean age of 36 ± 11 years. Sub-themes identified were knowledge, attitude, perception and concerns regarding COVID-19 vaccine, leading to the main theme, i.e., views about the COVID-19 vaccine. CONCLUSION: People have mixed perceptions regarding COVID-19 vaccine. Channelling correct messages may improve people’s willingness to get vaccinated. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Diabetes India. 2021 2021-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7997146/ /pubmed/33813241 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2021.03.021 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of Diabetes India. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Kumari, Archana
Ranjan, Piyush
Chopra, Sakshi
Kaur, Divjyot
Kaur, Tanveer
Kalanidhi, Kamal Bandhu
Goel, Aastha
Singh, Amandeep
Baitha, Upendra
Prakash, Bindu
Vikram, Naval K.
What Indians Think of the COVID-19 vaccine: A qualitative study comprising focus group discussions and thematic analysis
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title_full What Indians Think of the COVID-19 vaccine: A qualitative study comprising focus group discussions and thematic analysis
title_fullStr What Indians Think of the COVID-19 vaccine: A qualitative study comprising focus group discussions and thematic analysis
title_full_unstemmed What Indians Think of the COVID-19 vaccine: A qualitative study comprising focus group discussions and thematic analysis
title_short What Indians Think of the COVID-19 vaccine: A qualitative study comprising focus group discussions and thematic analysis
title_sort what indians think of the covid-19 vaccine: a qualitative study comprising focus group discussions and thematic analysis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7997146/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33813241
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2021.03.021
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