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Negative sentiments toward novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines

Addressing negative vaccine sentiments is paramount to COVID-19 prevention efforts. However, assessing population sentiments is challenging due to the desirability bias that can emerge when directly asking respondents for their opinions on vaccination. Social media data, containing people’s unfilter...

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Autores principales: Sun, Ruoyan, Budhwani, Henna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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/PMC9584858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36307288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.10.037
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description Addressing negative vaccine sentiments is paramount to COVID-19 prevention efforts. However, assessing population sentiments is challenging due to the desirability bias that can emerge when directly asking respondents for their opinions on vaccination. Social media data, containing people’s unfiltered thoughts, have the potential to offer valuable insights that could guide vaccine promotion messaging. We extracted one week’s (4/5–4/11, 2020) worth of COVID-19 vaccine posts on Twitter (tweets) from the U.S. (N = 208,973) and segmented tweets with negative sentiments toward COVID-19 vaccines (n = 14,794). We imputed location based on Twitter users’ self-reported state of residence. We found that states in the South had significantly higher prevalence of negative tweets compared to states in other parts of the country, and higher-income states reported lower prevalence of negative tweets. Our findings suggest the existence of negative vaccine sentiments and geographic variability in these opinions, warranting tailored vaccine promotion efforts, particularly for the southern U.S.
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spelling pubmed-95848582022-10-21 Negative sentiments toward novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines Sun, Ruoyan Budhwani, Henna Vaccine Short Communication Addressing negative vaccine sentiments is paramount to COVID-19 prevention efforts. However, assessing population sentiments is challenging due to the desirability bias that can emerge when directly asking respondents for their opinions on vaccination. Social media data, containing people’s unfiltered thoughts, have the potential to offer valuable insights that could guide vaccine promotion messaging. We extracted one week’s (4/5–4/11, 2020) worth of COVID-19 vaccine posts on Twitter (tweets) from the U.S. (N = 208,973) and segmented tweets with negative sentiments toward COVID-19 vaccines (n = 14,794). We imputed location based on Twitter users’ self-reported state of residence. We found that states in the South had significantly higher prevalence of negative tweets compared to states in other parts of the country, and higher-income states reported lower prevalence of negative tweets. Our findings suggest the existence of negative vaccine sentiments and geographic variability in these opinions, warranting tailored vaccine promotion efforts, particularly for the southern U.S. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-11-15 2022-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9584858/ /pubmed/36307288 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.10.037 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9584858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36307288
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.10.037
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