Doctora en Antropología Médica. Profesora asociada, University of Texas Rio Grande Valle, Edinburg, EEUU.
Salud Colect. 2024 Mar 26;20:e4541. doi: 10.18294/sc.2024.4541.
Following the authorization the use of COVID-19 vaccines in babies age six months through children four years old in the United States, some individuals (parents, pediatricians, and communicators) framed COVID-19 vaccination as an issue of access, while many others expressed hesitancy and some resisted recommendations from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this context, this study aimed to explore: 1) divergent reactions to the authorization of COVID-19 vaccine use in children aged six months to four years; and 2) opposing logics underlying attitudes towards pro-vaccination, anti-vaccination, and vaccine hesitancy regarding COVID-19 vaccines. To achieve this, a digital ethnography was conducted, involving monitoring of 5,700 reactions to a series of eight infographics published on social media by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and participant observation in an online focus group over a one-year period, from December 2021 to December 2022, consisting of 18 mothers. The findings suggest that healthcare professionals should consider different notions of "risk" when interacting with patients, especially those who are hesitant to vaccinate.
在美国授权将 COVID-19 疫苗用于六个月至四岁的婴儿和儿童后，一些人（父母、儿科医生和传播者）将 COVID-19 疫苗接种视为获取疫苗的问题，而许多其他人则表示犹豫不决，一些人抵制美国疾病控制与预防中心的建议。在这种情况下，本研究旨在探讨：1）对授权六个月至四岁儿童使用 COVID-19 疫苗的不同反应；2）对 COVID-19 疫苗的支持疫苗、反疫苗和疫苗犹豫态度的对立逻辑。为了实现这一目标，进行了数字民族志研究，包括监测约翰霍普金斯彭博公共卫生学院在社交媒体上发布的八组信息图的 5700 次反应，以及在 2021 年 12 月至 2022 年 12 月的一年期间参加一个在线焦点小组的参与者观察，该焦点小组由 18 位母亲组成。研究结果表明，医疗保健专业人员在与患者互动时应考虑不同的“风险”概念，特别是那些对接种疫苗犹豫不决的患者。
