Researching Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy in the Wake of COVID-19

Alistair Anderson; Tom Douglass; Pru Hobson-West

doi:10.1016/j.jvacx.2024.100450

Researching Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy in the Wake of COVID-19

Alistair Anderson, Tom Douglass, Pru Hobson-West^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Social Work and Social Care

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a seismic effect on public healthcare, vaccine production, and on society. However, the pandemic has also had a methodological impact on social researchers, including those seeking to better understand vaccine hesitancy in relation to childhood vaccines. In this short communication, we describe the challenging experience of recruiting and conducting qualitative interviews with UK healthcare professionals and vaccine hesitant parents in early 2022. We also explore the way in which the context of COVID influenced our data analysis. Finally, we make recommendations for how researchers, including those using qualitative or quantitative methods, might learn from our experiences, as the complex and delicate relationship between society and vaccines continues to evolve in the wake of the pandemic.

Original language	English
Article number	100450
Number of pages	4
Journal	Vaccine: X
Volume	16
Early online date	26 Jan 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2024.100450
Publication status	Published - 28 Jan 2024

Bibliographical note

Funding.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 965280.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Access to Document

10.1016/j.jvacx.2024.100450Licence: Creative Commons: Attribution (CC BY)

AndersonA2024ResearchingFinal published version, 333 KBLicence: Creative Commons: Attribution (CC BY)

Cite this

@article{3ad5ad1affd24031bb06c62a0b3f799d,

title = "Researching Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy in the Wake of COVID-19",

abstract = "The COVID-19 pandemic has had a seismic effect on public healthcare, vaccine production, and on society. However, the pandemic has also had a methodological impact on social researchers, including those seeking to better understand vaccine hesitancy in relation to childhood vaccines. In this short communication, we describe the challenging experience of recruiting and conducting qualitative interviews with UK healthcare professionals and vaccine hesitant parents in early 2022. We also explore the way in which the context of COVID influenced our data analysis. Finally, we make recommendations for how researchers, including those using qualitative or quantitative methods, might learn from our experiences, as the complex and delicate relationship between society and vaccines continues to evolve in the wake of the pandemic.",

author = "Alistair Anderson and Tom Douglass and Pru Hobson-West",

note = "Funding. This project has received funding from the European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 965280.",

year = "2024",

month = jan,

day = "28",

doi = "10.1016/j.jvacx.2024.100450",

language = "English",

volume = "16",

journal = "Vaccine: X",

issn = "2590-1362",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Researching Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy in the Wake of COVID-19

AU - Anderson, Alistair

AU - Douglass, Tom

AU - Hobson-West, Pru

N1 - Funding. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 965280.

PY - 2024/1/28

Y1 - 2024/1/28

N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic has had a seismic effect on public healthcare, vaccine production, and on society. However, the pandemic has also had a methodological impact on social researchers, including those seeking to better understand vaccine hesitancy in relation to childhood vaccines. In this short communication, we describe the challenging experience of recruiting and conducting qualitative interviews with UK healthcare professionals and vaccine hesitant parents in early 2022. We also explore the way in which the context of COVID influenced our data analysis. Finally, we make recommendations for how researchers, including those using qualitative or quantitative methods, might learn from our experiences, as the complex and delicate relationship between society and vaccines continues to evolve in the wake of the pandemic.

AB - The COVID-19 pandemic has had a seismic effect on public healthcare, vaccine production, and on society. However, the pandemic has also had a methodological impact on social researchers, including those seeking to better understand vaccine hesitancy in relation to childhood vaccines. In this short communication, we describe the challenging experience of recruiting and conducting qualitative interviews with UK healthcare professionals and vaccine hesitant parents in early 2022. We also explore the way in which the context of COVID influenced our data analysis. Finally, we make recommendations for how researchers, including those using qualitative or quantitative methods, might learn from our experiences, as the complex and delicate relationship between society and vaccines continues to evolve in the wake of the pandemic.

U2 - 10.1016/j.jvacx.2024.100450

DO - 10.1016/j.jvacx.2024.100450

M3 - Article

SN - 2590-1362

VL - 16

JO - Vaccine: X

JF - Vaccine: X

M1 - 100450

ER -

Researching Childhood Vaccine Hesitancy in the Wake of COVID-19

Abstract

Bibliographical note

UN SDGs

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this