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Reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations and changing decisions over time: A longitudinal qualitative
Dicle Filiz Yıldırım1, Pınar Serçekuş1, Sevgi Özkan1
1Faculty of Health Sciences, Pamukkale University, Kınıklı / Denizli, Turkey.
Objective:
COVID-19 is a serious public health problem. Therefore, it is important to vaccinate the community. This study was aimed at examining the reasons for individuals' COVID-19 vaccine hesitations, and decisions that have changed over time.
Material And Methods:
This was a prospective longitudinal qualitative study.
Results:
Confidence, fear, conspiracy theories, belief, and social pressure play a role in vaccine hesitancy. The most important factor in the changing decisions of individuals who are hesitant about vaccination is pressure. Confidence and fear also lead to a change of decision. However, it was remarkable that most of the participants who were vaccinated due to pressure did not want to be revaccinated.
Conclusions:
Governments, media, vaccine companies, health professionals, and scientists should act together to increase the vaccination rates of individuals.
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