COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Social Media Users: A Content Analysis, Multi-Continent Study

Shaaban R.; Ghazy R.M.; Elsherif F.; Ali N.; Yakoub Y.; Aly M.; Elmakhzangy R.; Abdou M.S.; McKinna B.; Elzorkany A.M.; Abdullah F.; Alnagar A.; Eltaweel N.; Alharthi M.; Mohsin A.; Ordóñez-Cruickshank A.; Toniolo B.; Grafolin T.; Aye T.T.; Goh Y.Z.; Deghidy E.A.; Bahri S.; Sappayabanphot J.; Elhadi Y.A.M.; Mohammed S.; El-Deen A.N.; Ismail I.; Elhafeez S.A.; Elbarazi I.; Saddik B.; El-Khatib Z.; Mohsin H.; Kamal A.

COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Social Media Users: A Content Analysis, Multi-Continent Study

Issued Date

2022-05-01

Resource Type

Article

ISSN

16617827

eISSN

16604601

DOI

10.3390/ijerph19095737

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85129550775

Pubmed ID

35565132

Journal Title

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volume

19

Issue

9

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SCOPUS

Bibliographic Citation

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol.19 No.9 (2022)

Suggested Citation

Shaaban R., Ghazy R.M., Elsherif F., Ali N., Yakoub Y., Aly M., Elmakhzangy R., Abdou M.S., McKinna B., Elzorkany A.M., Abdullah F., Alnagar A., Eltaweel N., Alharthi M., Mohsin A., Ordóñez-Cruickshank A., Toniolo B., Grafolin T., Aye T.T., Goh Y.Z., Deghidy E.A., Bahri S., Sappayabanphot J., Elhadi Y.A.M., Mohammed S., El-Deen A.N., Ismail I., Elhafeez S.A., Elbarazi I., Saddik B., El-Khatib Z., Mohsin H., Kamal A. COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Social Media Users: A Content Analysis, Multi-Continent Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol.19 No.9 (2022). doi:10.3390/ijerph19095737 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/84718

Title

COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Social Media Users: A Content Analysis, Multi-Continent Study

Other Contributor(s)

Mahidol University

Abstract

Vaccine hesitancy is defined as a delayed in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite avail-ability of vaccination services. This multinational study examined user interaction with social media about COVID-19 vaccination. The study analyzed social media comments in 24 countries from five continents. In total, 5856 responses were analyzed; 83.5% of comments were from Facebook, while 16.5% were from Twitter. In Facebook, the overall vaccine acceptance was 40.3%; the lowest acceptance rates were evident in Jordan (8.5%), Oman (15.0%), Senegal (20.0%) and Morocco (20.7%) and the continental acceptance rate was the lowest in North America 22.6%. In Twitter, the overall acceptance rate was (41.5%); the lowest acceptance rate was found in Oman (14.3%), followed by USA (20.5%), and UK (23.3%) and the continental acceptance rate was the lowest in North America (20.5%), and Europe (29.7%). The differences in vaccine acceptance across countries and continents in Facebook and Twitter were statistically significant. Regarding the tone of the comments, in Face-book, countries that had the highest number of serious tone comments were Sweden (90.9%), United States (61.3%), and Thailand (58.8%). At continent level, serious comments were the highest in Asia (58.4%), followed by Africa (46.2%) and South America (46.2%). In twitter, the highest serious tone was reported in Egypt (72.2%) while at continental level, the highest proportion of serious comments was observed in Asia (59.7%), followed by Europe (46.5%). The differences in tone across countries and continents in Facebook and Twitter and were statistically significant. There was a significant association between the tone and the position of comments. We concluded that the overall vaccine acceptance in social media is relatively low and varied across the studied countries and continents consequently, more in-depth studies are required to address causes of such VH and com-bat infodemics.

Keyword(s)

Environmental Science

URI

https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/84718

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Scopus 2022

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