Social Representations of Hesitant Brazilians about Vaccination against Covid-19

Bibliographic Data

ID15475619
AuthorsKeila Cristina Oliveira dos Santos (0000-0003-0669-0105, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Maria De Fátima Junqueira-Marinho (0000-0001-7817-7891, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Adriana Teixeira Reis (0000-0003-2043-6621, Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto), Karla Gonçalves Camacho (0000-0003-2653-437X, Hospital Universitário Pedro Ernesto), Marcio Fernandes Nehab (0000-0002-4659-6247, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Dimitri Marques Abramov (0000-0002-0214-1670, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Zina Maria Almeida De Azevedo (0000-0003-3524-0365, Universidade Unigranrio), Lívia Almeida De Menezes (0000-0001-5293-1729, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Margarida Dos Santos Salú (0000-0002-4529-5629, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Carlos Eduardo da Silva Figueiredo (0000-0003-4659-525X, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Maria Elizabeth Lopes Moreira (0000-0002-2034-0294, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Zilton Farias Meira De Vasconcelos (0000-0002-2193-2224, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Flávia Anisio Amendola (0000-0001-6135-4927, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Flavia Amendola Anisio de Carvalho (National Institute of Women, Children and Adolescents Health Fernandes Figueira (IFF-FIOCRUZ), Rio de Janeiro 22250-020, Brazil), Lívia De Rezende De Mello (0000-0001-6841-3678, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Roberta Fernandes Correia (0000-0003-3525-9365, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Saint Clair Gomes Júnior (0000-0002-1554-943X, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), Daniella Campelo Batalha Cox Moore (0000-0003-4576-5165, Universidade Federal Fluminense, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume20
Issue13
Pages6204-6204
Publication date2023-06-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
PublisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph20136204
PMID37444052
OpenAlexW4381801187
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited30

Social knowledge, presented by the representations apprehended in this study, demonstrates difficulty in discerning the reliability of information and a social imagination full of doubts and uncertainties. Understanding the internal dynamics of these groups, with their representations of the world, is important to propose policies and actions that echo and cause changes in the understanding of the role of immunization. It is essential to shed light on the sociological imagination so that gaps filled with false information can be dismantled and confronted with scientific knowledge accessible to the population

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disease · Distrust · Pandemic · Population · Sociology · Vaccination · Demography · Medicine · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy · Virology