Overview of Tools and Measures Investigating Vaccine Hesitancy in a Ten Year Period: A Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT: The challenge of vaccine hesitancy, a growing global concern in the last decade, has been aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The need for monitoring vaccine sentiments and early detection of vaccine hesitancy in a population recommended by the WHO calls for the availability of contextually relevant tools and measures. This scoping review covers a ten year-period from 2010-2019 which included the first nine years of the decade of vaccines and aims to give a broad overview of tools and measures, and present a summary of their nature, similarities, and differences. We conducted the review using the framework for scoping reviews by Arksey and O'Malley (2005) and reported it following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews' guideli

SUBMITTER: Oduwole EO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9412526 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature