A qualitative study of pregnant women's opinions on COVID-19 vaccines in Turkey

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OBJECTIVES: to examine pregnant Turkish women's opinions on COVID-19 vaccines.

DESIGN: a qualitative approach was used to gather data through semi-structured interviews.

PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: 16 women about to receive a vaccine during their pregnancy and who did or did not experience vaccine hesitancy participated.

ANALYSIS: qualitative content analysis.

FINDINGS: three main themes emerged regarding the pregnant women's opinions on COVID-19 vaccines: fear, security/insecurity and social support.

KEY CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: pregnant women mostly recalled their babies and fears about COVID-19 vaccines. Although the fear of vaccines created vaccine hesitancy during pregnancy, the fear of contracting COVID-19 led to a positive attitude to the vaccines. It is critical to provide pregnant women with information about COVID-19 and vaccines for the disease in order to enhance vaccination rates among pregnant women.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:114

Enthalten in:

Midwifery - 114(2022) vom: 30. Nov., Seite 103459

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Uludağ, Elif [VerfasserIn]
Serçekuş, Pınar [VerfasserIn]
Yıldırım, Dicle Filiz [VerfasserIn]
Özkan, Sevgi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
COVID-19 Vaccines
Journal Article
Opinion
Pregnant
Qualitative study
Vaccine
Vaccines

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Date Completed 24.10.2022

Date Revised 21.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.midw.2022.103459

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM345470052