Improving Conversations With COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitant Patients: Action Research to Support Family Physicians.

ABSTRACT: Vaccination delivery and efforts to counter vaccine hesitancy have become focal issues for family medicine teams as the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved. Conducting action research, our team developed an interactive web-based guide to improve clinical conversations around a broad range of vaccine hesitancies presented by patients. The paper presents a step-by-step account of the guide being codesigned with family physicians-its targeted end users-in a process that included validation interviews; role-play interviews; and user-tested design. The validation interviews sought to understand the pragmatic realities of vaccine hesitancy in family medicine clinical practice relative to relevant psychological theories. The role-play interviews drew out conversational strategies and advice from family

SUBMITTER: Leslie M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9328713 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature