Fast Five Quiz: Overcoming #Vaccine #Hesitancy

https://reference.medscape.com/viewarticle/989340?ecd=mkm_ret_230615_mscpmrk-OUS_DisReferences&uac=88758BV&impID=5523667&faf=1

#Vaccine #hesitancy in #pregnant Women

📌 Pregnant women are often at higher risk for morbidity and mortality due to contracting vaccine-preventable diseases that result in adverse pregnancy outcomes such as spontaneous abortion, preterm births, and congenital fetal defects.

📌 Recommended vaccines during pregnancy include seasonal influenza, Tdap (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis), and the COVID-19 vaccine

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X23006084?dgcid=rss_sd_all

Q&A: Parents increasingly cite safety concerns as reason for #HPV #vaccine #hesitancy

📌 Hesitancy is higher for the HPV vaccine than for other vaccines and many parents remain skeptical about it.

📌The proportion of parents who cite safety concerns for their HPV vaccine hesitancy has increased.

https://www.healio.com/news/pediatrics/20230531/qa-parents-increasingly-cite-safety-concerns-as-reason-for-hpv-vaccine-hesitancy?utm_source=selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news&M_BT=564310228009

Trends in Reasons for Human Papillomavirus Vaccine #Hesitancy: 2010–2020

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📌 The five most frequently cited reasons for not intending to vaccinate included “not necessary,” “safety concerns,” “lack of recommendation,” “lack of knowledge,” and “not sexually active.”

📌 Parents who cited vaccine safety as a reason for not intending to vaccinate their adolescent children against HPV increased over time.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/151/6/e2022060410/191309/Trends-in-Reasons-for-Human-Papillomavirus-Vaccine?redirectedFrom=fulltext

#COVID19 #Vaccine Refusal and Delay among Adults in Italy 🇮🇹: Evidence from the OBVIOUS Project, a National Survey

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Public Figure #Vaccination Rhetoric and Vaccine #Hesitancy: Retrospective #Twitter Analysis

📌 The majority of posts… condemned public figures expressing anti-vax beliefs by undermining their influence, insulting them, or expressing concerns over public health ramifications.

https://infodemiology.jmir.org/2023/1/e40575

Exacerbation of #measles mortality by vaccine #hesitancy worldwide

📌Measles is highly transmissible, requiring coverage of at least 95% to maintain herd immunity.

📌Vaccination programmes in lower-income and middle- income countries have averted more than 70 million deaths between 1990 and 2019,

📌Given the extraordinary transmissibility of measles, countering vaccine hesitancy is essential to safeguard the progress towards measles control.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(23)00063-3/fulltext

Mitigating #Vaccine #Hesitancy and Building Trust to Prevent Future #Measles Outbreaks in #England

https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/vaccines/vaccines-11-00288/article_deploy/vaccines-11-00288.pdf?version=1674894297

#Vaccine #hesitancy in #cancer patients

#Covid19

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738399123000605?via%3Dihub

ACOEM is excited to announce the launch of its new vaccine-specific website acoemvaxinfo.org. The website will help ACOEM continue its efforts to advance adult immunizations in an occupational setting.

Occupational medicine providers can access the website to find resources on a variety of vaccines (e.g., #COVID19, #influenza, travel-related), information for employers, and strategies to address vaccine #hesitancy.

Visit acoemvaxinfo.org for more information.

Social media behavior is associated with #vaccine #hesitancy

📌 Vaccine hesitancy is associated with following, sharing, and interacting with low-quality information online, as well as centrality within a conservative-leaning online community in the US.
📌 These results illustrate the potential challenges of encouraging vaccine uptake in a polarized social media environment.

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/4/pgac207/6726650?login=false

#COVID19 #vaccination #hesitancy among Italian 🇮🇹 parents: A systematic review and meta-analysis

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21645515.2023.2171185

#Vaccine #inequity and #hesitancy persist—we must tackle both

👉 " If we want a safer world we must address these issues and challenge vaccine hesitancy—including the burgeoning spread of vaccine misinformation—with a level of urgency that has been sadly lacking in most countries".

https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/380/bmj.p8.full.pdf

@debe @orionkidder

Another method is to keep #mannerisms and #dialogue from butting into each other:

She took a drink, looked outside. "The problem is we tried too hard."

Above, you show her #hesitancy through #actions - drinking, looking away - not dialogue tags.

Or, create the #pause w/ an unobtrusive "said" tag:

"Problem is," she said, "we tried too hard."

Or, show a pause w/ just an #ellipsis:

"The problem is...we tried too hard."

#COVID19 Vaccine #Hesitancy

https://www.pediatric.theclinics.com/article/S0031-3955(22)00200-0/fulltext?rss=yes

When good messages go wrong: Perspectives on #COVID19 vaccines and vaccine communication from generally vaccine accepting individuals in 🇨🇦

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Addressing #COVID19 vaccine #hesitancy: A content analysis of government social media platforms in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and 🇮🇹 during 2020-2021

📌 It is crucial to monitor and use #SocialMedia platforms adequately during health emergencies

📌 Monitoring the comments arising from posts by the Italian Ministry of Health and Public Health England could help predict the public’s willingness to get immunised against COVID-19 as well as reactions to such health messages.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36447994/

Willingness to receive a vaccine is influenced by adverse events following immunisation experienced by others

#Vaccine
#Hesitancy

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22014475?via%3Dihub

Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Role of Medical Students

#COVID19
#Hesitancy
#MedicalEducation
#MedMastodon

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40670-022-01670-2.pdf

Demographic disparities in #COVID19 vaccine hesitancy among U.S. adults

#hesitancy

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X22013810?via%3Dihub