Potential factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Although vaccines are considered the most effective and fundamental therapeutic tools for consistently preventing the COVID-19 disease, worldwide vaccine hesitancy has become a widespread public health issue for successful immunization. The aim of this review was to identify an up-to-date and concise assessment of potential factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and refusal intention, and to outline the key message in order to organize these factors according to country count.

Methods

A systematic search of the peer-reviewed literature articles indexed in reputable databases, mainly Pub Med (MEDLINE), Elsevier, Science Direct, and Scopus, was performed between21stJune 2021 and10th July 2021. After obtaining the results via careful screening using

SUBMITTER: Roy DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8942251 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature