Baj-Rogowska Anna
Department of Informatics in ManagementGdañsk University of Technology 80-233 Gdañsk Poland.
IEEE Access. 2021 Sep 24;9:134929-134944. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3115554. eCollection 2021.
Opinion polls on vaccine uptake clearly show that Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy is increasing worldwide. Thus, reaching herd immunity not only depends on the efficacy of the vaccine itself, but also on overcoming this hesitancy of uptake in the population. In this study, we revealed the determinants regarding vaccination directly from people's opinions on Twitter, based on the framework of the 6As taxonomy. Covid-19 vaccine acceptance depends mostly on the characteristics of new vaccines (i.e. their safety, side effects, effectiveness, etc.), and the national vaccination strategy (i.e. immunization schedules, quantities of vaccination points and their localization, etc.), which should focus on increasing citizens' awareness, among various other factors. The results of this study point to areas for potentially improving mass campaigns of Covid-19 immunization to increase vaccine uptake and its coverage and also provide insight into possible directions of future research.
关于疫苗接种率的民意调查清楚地表明,全球范围内对新冠疫苗的犹豫情绪正在增加。因此,实现群体免疫不仅取决于疫苗本身的效力,还取决于克服民众对接种疫苗的这种犹豫情绪。在本研究中,我们基于6A分类法框架,直接从人们在推特上的观点中揭示了与疫苗接种相关的决定因素。新冠疫苗的接受度主要取决于新疫苗的特性(即安全性、副作用、有效性等)以及国家疫苗接种策略(即免疫接种时间表、接种点数量及其位置等),在诸多其他因素中,这些因素应侧重于提高公民的认知度。本研究结果指出了可能改善新冠疫苗大规模接种活动以提高疫苗接种率及其覆盖率的领域,也为未来研究的可能方向提供了见解。