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Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries

Vaccine uptake is essential to managing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccine hesitancy is a persistent concern. At the same time, both decision-makers and the general population have high hopes for COVID-19 vaccination. Drawing from qualitative interview data collected in October 2020 as part...

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Autores principales: Paul, Katharina T., Zimmermann, Bettina M., Corsico, Paolo, Fiske, Amelia, Geiger, Susi, Johnson, Stephanie, Kuiper, Janneke M.L., Lievevrouw, Elisa, Marelli, Luca, Prainsack, Barbara, Spahl, Wanda, Van Hoyweghen, Ine
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8731673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35013736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2021.100035
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author Paul, Katharina T.
Zimmermann, Bettina M.
Corsico, Paolo
Fiske, Amelia
Geiger, Susi
Johnson, Stephanie
Kuiper, Janneke M.L.
Lievevrouw, Elisa
Marelli, Luca
Prainsack, Barbara
Spahl, Wanda
Van Hoyweghen, Ine
author_facet Paul, Katharina T.
Zimmermann, Bettina M.
Corsico, Paolo
Fiske, Amelia
Geiger, Susi
Johnson, Stephanie
Kuiper, Janneke M.L.
Lievevrouw, Elisa
Marelli, Luca
Prainsack, Barbara
Spahl, Wanda
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description Vaccine uptake is essential to managing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccine hesitancy is a persistent concern. At the same time, both decision-makers and the general population have high hopes for COVID-19 vaccination. Drawing from qualitative interview data collected in October 2020 as part of the pan-European SolPan study, this study explores early and anticipatory expectations, hopes and fears regarding COVID-19 vaccination across seven European countries. We find that stances towards COVID-19 vaccines were shaped by personal lived experiences, but participants also aligned personal and communal interests in their considerations. Trust, particularly in expert institutions, was an important prerequisite for vaccine acceptance, but participants also expressed doubts about the rapid vaccine development process. Our findings emphasise the need to move beyond the study of factors driving vaccine hesitancy, and instead to focus on how people personally perceive vaccination in their particular social and political context.
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spelling pubmed-87316732022-01-06 Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries Paul, Katharina T. Zimmermann, Bettina M. Corsico, Paolo Fiske, Amelia Geiger, Susi Johnson, Stephanie Kuiper, Janneke M.L. Lievevrouw, Elisa Marelli, Luca Prainsack, Barbara Spahl, Wanda Van Hoyweghen, Ine SSM Qual Res Health Article Vaccine uptake is essential to managing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccine hesitancy is a persistent concern. At the same time, both decision-makers and the general population have high hopes for COVID-19 vaccination. Drawing from qualitative interview data collected in October 2020 as part of the pan-European SolPan study, this study explores early and anticipatory expectations, hopes and fears regarding COVID-19 vaccination across seven European countries. We find that stances towards COVID-19 vaccines were shaped by personal lived experiences, but participants also aligned personal and communal interests in their considerations. Trust, particularly in expert institutions, was an important prerequisite for vaccine acceptance, but participants also expressed doubts about the rapid vaccine development process. Our findings emphasise the need to move beyond the study of factors driving vaccine hesitancy, and instead to focus on how people personally perceive vaccination in their particular social and political context. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-12 2022-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8731673/ /pubmed/35013736 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2021.100035 Text en © 2022 The Authors 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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Paul, Katharina T.
Zimmermann, Bettina M.
Corsico, Paolo
Fiske, Amelia
Geiger, Susi
Johnson, Stephanie
Kuiper, Janneke M.L.
Lievevrouw, Elisa
Marelli, Luca
Prainsack, Barbara
Spahl, Wanda
Van Hoyweghen, Ine
Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries
title Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries
title_full Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries
title_fullStr Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries
title_full_unstemmed Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries
title_short Anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative interview study in seven European countries
title_sort anticipating hopes, fears and expectations towards covid-19 vaccines: a qualitative interview study in seven european countries
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8731673/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35013736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2021.100035
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