‘I am not an anti‐vaxxer’: Women's Diverging Representations of COVID‐19 Vaccination and Pregnancy
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
35(2)
Опубликована: Март 1, 2025
ABSTRACT
Despite
a
disproportionate
risk
of
harm
from
contracting
COVID‐19,
pregnant
women
in
Australia
are
reluctant
to
vaccinate.
Drawing
social
representations
theory,
this
study
investigated
lay
knowledge
associated
with
women,
pregnancy
and
COVID‐19
vaccination
towards
the
end
pandemic.
Women
regional
New
South
Wales
(
N
=
103;
M
age
39.76)
completed
an
online
survey
comprising
risk/benefit
scales
word
association
task.
Results
revealed
that
considering
perceived
‘pregnant
women’
as
being
at
high
virus
AstraZeneca
vaccine.
Regardless
status,
patterns
women's
vaccines
differed
by
status
reasoning.
Risk
issues
frequently
co‐occurred
associations.
However,
meaning
these
associations
varied
relation
experiences.
Conceptualised
‘thema’
risk/safety
was
central
representational
field
elaborated
among
women.
Aspects
were
elicited
depending
on
self/other
relations
diverging
emancipated
polemic
response
institutional
messaging.
Язык: Английский
Mental health and psychosocial factors predicting concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine among refugee background and Australian-born women
Vaccine,
Год журнала:
2025,
Номер
58, С. 127251 - 127251
Опубликована: Май 19, 2025
Язык: Английский
COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities
Sociology of Health & Illness,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Окт. 30, 2024
Abstract
Since
the
advent
of
COVID‐19
pandemic,
several
ways
understanding
time
have
emerged:
what
we
may
call
‘COVID
time’.
Based
on
40
qualitative
online
interviews
in
2022
with
Australians
living
across
continent,
this
article
examines
how
people
situated
themselves
and
historical
time.
It
further
explores
material
aspects,
place
space
(or
“pandemic
materialities”)
factored
into
lived
experiences
temporal
imaginaries.
We
focus
time‐related
concepts
such
as
synchronisation
definition
crises
events
are
interrelated
participants’
understandings
COVID
either
over
or
a
continuing
crisis.
The
sociomaterial
dimensions
that
served
to
alert
risk
encourage
them
engage
preventive
action
identified
which
was
experienced,
remembered,
understood
imagined.
While
some
respondents
claimed
present
moment
‘post‐COVID’,
for
others,
pandemic
far
from
indeed
stretched
future.
use
lens
show
portray
‘temporal
technologies’
‘objectifications’
event
COVID‐19—the
tangible
materialisations
its
status
relegated
past
mode
future
Язык: Английский
Willingness to vaccinate among adults, and factors associated with vaccine acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines in a nationwide study in Poland between March 2021 and April 2022
Frontiers in Public Health,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
11
Опубликована: Дек. 4, 2023
Despite
the
availability,
safety
and
effectiveness
of
COVID-19
vaccines,
Poland
remains
one
six
countries
European
Union
with
lowest
cumulative
uptake
vaccine's
primary
course
in
general
population.
This
study
examined
willingness
to
vaccinate
associated
factors
samples
unvaccinated
vaccinated
adults
between
March
2021
April
2022.
Data
were
collected
using
OBSER-CO,
a
nationwide,
repeated
cross-sectional
study,
conducted
at
four
different
time
points
(rounds).
on
among
(at
all
rounds)
receive
another
dose
2
rounds-after
booster
introduction),
reasons
for
reluctance,
sociodemographic,
health,
behavioral
uniform
questionnaire
via
computer-assisted
telephone
interviewing.
In
each
round,
more
than
20,000
respondents
interviewed.
To
assess
associations
vaccinate,
separate
multivariable
logistic
regression
models
fitted
factor
round
adjusted
confounders.
Between
rounds
1
4
(March
2021-April
2022),
unvaccinated,
declined
from
73
12%,
whereas
vaccinated,
90
53%.
The
highest
magnitude
decline
subsequent
occurred
during
Omicron
wave.
Overall,
concerns
about
side
effects,
effectiveness,
vaccine
adverse
effects
common
but
decreased
over
time.
Age,
gender,
employment,
place
residence,
diagnosis
or
exposure,
hospitalization,
participation
social
activities
willingness.
However,
changed
highlighting
influence
pandemic
waves
variants.
We
observed
declining
multifactorial
Poland,
attitudes
dynamically
changing
across
rounds.
address
concerns,
sustained
health
communication
vaccines
is
essential,
especially
after
emergence
new
Язык: Английский
Manifestation of Health Denialism in Attitudes toward COVID-19 Vaccination: A Qualitative Study
Vaccines,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
11(12), С. 1822 - 1822
Опубликована: Дек. 6, 2023
Science
denialism
is
characterized
by
the
refusal
to
accept
existing
consensus
and
available
evidence.
Typical
strategies
denialists
employ
include
spreading
conspiracies,
selective
use
of
information,
relying
on
fake
experts,
or
general
fallacies
in
logic.
A
flood
misinformation,
news,
conspiracy
theories
accompanied
COVID-19
pandemic.
Simultaneously,
it
was
a
subject
many
denialistic
opinions,
from
denying
existence
epidemic
challenge
claims
that
questioned
safety
effectiveness
vaccines.
This
study's
main
aim
assess
manifestations
attitudes
toward
preventive
measures
recommended
during
pandemic,
with
special
focus
vaccination.
In-depth
interviews
were
conducted
fifty
representatives
population,
demonstrating
diversified
opinions
about
vaccines
other
behaviors.
The
performed
face
participants'
houses
at
places
they
identified
as
convenient.
Some
interviewees
preferred
do
interview
via
teleconference.
carried
out
November
2022
March
2023.
recruited
initially
convenience,
further
stages,
snowball
technique
used.
residents
four
administrative
districts
Poland.
Out
50
participants,
26
males,
29
between
18-40,
16
inhabitants
rural
areas,
28
had
university
level
education.
based
semi-structured
guide
addressed,
addition
views
origin
new
coronavirus,
respondents'
vaccination
sanitary
recommendation,
health
status
interviewees,
their
healthcare
services,
transcribed
analyzed
MAXQDA
Analytics
Pro
software
(Release
22.7.0).
Thematic
analysis
(TA)
applied
content
generated
interviews.
Based
uptake
vaccine,
participants
divided
into
three
groups:
unvaccinated,
hesitant,
vaccinated
(18,
4,
respectively).
themes
established
TA
interviews:
vaccination,
perception
sources
coronavirus.
first
theme
decidedly
drew
greatest
attention
interviewees.
There
also
clear
relationship
presence
denialist
thinking
among
Interestingly,
role
experts
key
source
information
pandemic
underlined
study
participants.
However,
criteria
for
being
an
expert
differed.
coronavirus
not
interesting
adherence
revealed
interplay
motivations.
Individuals
presenting
most
frequently
abstained
such
present
those
who
hesitated
even
been
vaccinated.
Furthermore,
only
one
determinants
measures.
Язык: Английский
Postawy negacjonistyczne i sceptyczne a zaufanie – reakcje na pandemię COVID-19 z perspektywy społeczno-kulturowej
Kultura i Społeczeństwo,
Год журнала:
2024,
Номер
68(4), С. 167 - 184
Опубликована: Дек. 17, 2024
Artykuł
prezentuje
wyniki
badania
jakościowego
dotyczącego
powiązań
pomiędzy
postawami
negacjonistycznymi
a
zaufaniem
do
instytucji
ochrony
zdrowia.
13
pogłębionych
wywiadów
indywidualnych
z
osobami
prezentującymi
postawy
negacjonistyczne
zostało
poddanych
jakościowej
analizie
treści
wykorzystaniem
programu
MaxQda.
W
wyniku
analizy
uzyskano
podział
narracji
występujących
w
wywiadach
na
podgrupy:
sceptyczne
zagubione,
zdrworozsądkowe,
sceptyzczne
indywidualistyczne
i
negacjonistyczne.
Występujące
wypowiedziach
pokazują
istnienie
relacji
poglądami
negacjonistycznymi,
medycznych
ich
przedstawicieli
oraz
procesami
kulturowymi
charakterystycznymi
dla
okresu
nowoczesności
refleksyjnej.
Australians’ Experiences of COVID-19: Stage 4 Survey Findings, 2023
SSRN Electronic Journal,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2023
The
national
online
survey
findings
reported
in
this
report
are
from
the
most
recent
stage
of
‘Australians’
Experiences
COVID-19’
project.
Conducted
mid-September
2023,
representative
investigates
1,000
Australians’
experiences
COVID-19
and
preventive
practices
such
as
vaccination
face
mask
wearing,
their
perceptions
risk,
who
they
think
trusted
sources
information
views
on
federal
state/territory
governments’
current
management
pandemic.
results
show
that
pandemic
continues
to
badly
affect
Australians
terms
accumulated
infections
prevalence
long
COVID.
Yet
respondents
were
equivocal
about
extent
which
is
a
continuing
risk
Australians.
For
part
not
strongly
supportive
continued
actions
against
infection
wearing
vaccination.
They
did
hold
high
trust
any
source,
including
medical
experts
scientists.
Respondents
divided
how
well
governments
managing
Язык: Английский
Sociocultural dimensions of health: contributions to studies on risk, digital sociology, and disinformation
Reciis,
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
17(4), С. 924 - 937
Опубликована: Дек. 15, 2023
Deborah
Lupton
is
a
renowned
academic
whose
research
has
made
significant
contributions
to
the
field
of
digital
sociology
and
sociocultural
dimensions
medicine
public
health.
In
an
interview
with
Reciis,
discusses
one
main
contemporary
challenges
-
misinformation
fake
news
through
lens
addresses
perspectives
risk
based
on
release
third
edition
her
book
Risk.
this
edition,
she
includes
new
chapter
issues
related
spread
during
COVID-19
pandemic.
With
comments
Australian
Brazilian
scenarios,
delves
into
anti-science,
denialism,
role
played
by
populist
governments
in
combating
disease.
Finally,
explores
potential
creative
methods
qualitative
studies,
especially
those
that
seek
understand
people's
rationalities,
logics,
feelings.
Язык: Английский