Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
BMJ Open. 2022 Feb 11;12(2):e045348. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045348.
Vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks have increased in past years, and there is great public health interest in monitoring attitudes towards vaccination as well as identifying factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy and refusal. Although the WHO declared vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to global health in 2019, studies focused on the determinants and extent of vaccine hesitancy in Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are lacking. This scoping review explores the various factors surrounding vaccine hesitancy, including but not limited to geographic, cultural and religious factors, and examines the extent and nature of the existing evidence on this topic. In light of current development of various COVID-19 vaccines, our work seeks to elucidate the barriers to vaccine uptake in specific populations.
This review will be conducted using the Joanna Briggs Institute Manual for Scoping Reviews. It will comply with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines. Studies published in English, Arabic and French between January 1998 and December 2020 will be drawn from PubMed, Embase, Cochrane and Scopus. The search strategy will include terms related to vaccination and vaccine hesitancy in Arab countries in the MENA region. We will also include grey literature on the topic by searching Google and Google Scholar. Studies will be selected according to the Participants-Intervention-Comparators-Outcome model, and all study titles and abstracts will be screened by two reviewers. Disagreements will be resolved with a third reviewer's input.
This review is exempted from ethical approval and will be published in a peer-reviewed open-access journal to ensure wide dissemination.
近年来，可通过疫苗预防的疾病爆发有所增加，因此公众非常关注监测人们对疫苗接种的态度，以及确定导致疫苗犹豫和拒绝的因素。尽管世界卫生组织（WHO）在 2019 年宣布疫苗犹豫是对全球健康的十大威胁之一，但针对中东和北非（MENA）地区阿拉伯国家中疫苗犹豫的决定因素和程度的研究却很少。本范围综述探讨了围绕疫苗犹豫的各种因素，包括但不限于地理、文化和宗教因素，并检查了该主题现有证据的程度和性质。鉴于目前各种 COVID-19 疫苗的发展，我们的工作旨在阐明特定人群中疫苗接种的障碍。
本综述将使用 Joanna Briggs 研究所范围综述手册进行。它将符合系统评价和荟萃分析扩展的首选报告项目范围综述指南。将从 PubMed、Embase、Cochrane 和 Scopus 中提取 1998 年 1 月至 2020 年 12 月期间以英语、阿拉伯语和法语发表的研究。搜索策略将包括与 MENA 地区阿拉伯国家疫苗接种和疫苗犹豫相关的术语。我们还将通过搜索 Google 和 Google Scholar 来纳入该主题的灰色文献。将根据参与者-干预-比较-结果模型选择研究，并且由两位审稿人筛选所有研究标题和摘要。如果存在分歧，将由第三位审稿人的意见解决。
本综述无需伦理批准，并将发表在同行评议的开放获取期刊上，以确保广泛传播。
