Reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations and changing decisions over time: A longitudinal qualitative study

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OBJECTIVE: COVID-19 is a serious public health problem. Therefore, it is important to vaccinate the community. This study was aimed at examining the reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations, and decisions that have changed over time. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This was a prospective lon...

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Autores principales: Yıldırım, Dicle Filiz, Serçekuş, Pınar, Özkan, Sevgi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9250900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35813990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacun.2022.06.006
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description OBJECTIVE: COVID-19 is a serious public health problem. Therefore, it is important to vaccinate the community. This study was aimed at examining the reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations, and decisions that have changed over time. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This was a prospective longitudinal qualitative study. RESULTS: Confidence, fear, conspiracy theories, belief, and social pressure play a role in vaccine hesitancy. The most important factor in the changing decisions of individuals who are hesitant about vaccination is pressure. Confidence and fear also lead to a change of decision. However, it was remarkable that most of the participants who were vaccinated due to pressure did not want to be revaccinated. CONCLUSIONS: Governments, media, vaccine companies, health professionals, and scientists should act together to increase the vaccination rates of individuals.
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spelling pubmed-92509002022-07-05 Reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations and changing decisions over time: A longitudinal qualitative study Yıldırım, Dicle Filiz Serçekuş, Pınar Özkan, Sevgi Vacunas Original OBJECTIVE: COVID-19 is a serious public health problem. Therefore, it is important to vaccinate the community. This study was aimed at examining the reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations, and decisions that have changed over time. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This was a prospective longitudinal qualitative study. RESULTS: Confidence, fear, conspiracy theories, belief, and social pressure play a role in vaccine hesitancy. The most important factor in the changing decisions of individuals who are hesitant about vaccination is pressure. Confidence and fear also lead to a change of decision. However, it was remarkable that most of the participants who were vaccinated due to pressure did not want to be revaccinated. CONCLUSIONS: Governments, media, vaccine companies, health professionals, and scientists should act together to increase the vaccination rates of individuals. Elsevier España, S.L.U. 2022 2022-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9250900/ /pubmed/35813990 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacun.2022.06.006 Text en © 2022 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved. 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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Reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations and changing decisions over time: A longitudinal qualitative study
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title_full Reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations and changing decisions over time: A longitudinal qualitative study
title_fullStr Reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations and changing decisions over time: A longitudinal qualitative study
title_full_unstemmed Reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations and changing decisions over time: A longitudinal qualitative study
title_short Reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations and changing decisions over time: A longitudinal qualitative study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9250900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35813990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vacun.2022.06.006
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