Assessing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, Confidence, and Public Engagement: A Global Social Listening Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring public confidence and hesitancy is crucial for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Social media listening (infoveillance) can not only monitor public attitudes on COVID-19 vaccines but also assess the dissemination of and public engagement with these opinions.

Objective

This study aims to assess global hesitancy, confidence, and public engagement toward COVID-19 vaccination.

Methods

We collected posts mentioning the COVID-19 vaccine between June and July 2020 on Twitter from New York (United States), London (United Kingdom), Mumbai (India), and Sao Paulo (Brazil), and Sina Weibo posts from Beijing (China). In total, we manually coded 12,886 posts from the five global metropolises with high COVID-19 burdens, and after assessment, 7032 posts were include

SUBMITTER: Hou Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8202656 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature