ArticleVaccine2020
Prospective associations of regional social media messages with attitudes and actual vaccination: A big data and survey study of the influenza vaccine in the United States.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Social media use and vaccination among Democrats and Republicans: Informational and normative influences.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Determinants of COVID-19 vaccination intention in Central and Eastern Europe: A cross-sectional study in Poland, Romania, and Slovenia.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2024Article
- Influenza vaccination and use of lipid lowering therapies in adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: An analysis of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).American heart journal · 2024Article
- Social Media Promotion of a Telehealth-based Vaccine Delivery System at the Outpatient Department: a Quasi-Experimental Study.Acta medica Philippina · 2024Article
- Designing and testing social media campaign messages to promote COVID-19 vaccine confidence among rural adults: A community-engaged approach featuring rural community leader and clinician testimonials.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
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- Anti-Vaccination Attitude and Vaccination Intentions Against Covid-19: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study Investigating the Role of Media Consumption.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2023Article
- Using geospatial social media data for infectious disease studies: a systematic review.International journal of digital earth · 2023Article
- Processes of persuasion and social influence in conspiracy beliefs.Current opinion in psychology · 2022Review
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- Dynamic assessment of the COVID-19 vaccine acceptance leveraging social media data.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2022Article
- Facilitators and Barriers of COVID-19 Vaccine Promotion on Social Media in the United States: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Implementing the Co-Immune Open Innovation Program to Address Vaccination Hesitancy and Access to Vaccines: Retrospective Study.Journal of participatory medicine · 2022Article
- Prediction of vaccine hesitancy based on social media traffic among Israeli parents using machine learning strategies.Israel journal of health policy research · 2021Article
- Tweet Topics and Sentiments Relating to COVID-19 Vaccination Among Australian Twitter Users: Machine Learning Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectiveUsing longitudinal methods to assess regional associations between social media posts about vaccines and attitudes and actual vaccination against influenza in the US.
methodsGeolocated tweets from U.S. counties (N = 115,330) were analyzed using MALLET LDA (Latent Dirichlet allocation) topic modeling techniques to correlate with prospective individual survey data (N = 3005) about vaccine attitudes, actual vaccination, and real-life discussions about vaccines with family and friends during the 2018-2019 influenza season.
resultsTen topics were common across U.S. counties during the 2018-2019 influenza season. In the overall analyses, two of these topics (i.e., Vaccine Science Matters and Big Pharma) were associated with attitudes and behaviors. The topic concerning vaccine science in November-February was positively correlated with attitudes in February-March, r = 0.09, BF DISCUSSION: Regional vaccine content correlated with prospective measures of vaccine attitudes and actual vaccination.
conclusionsSocial media have demonstrated strong associations with vaccination patterns. When the associations are negative, discussions with family and friends appear to eliminate them. Programs to promote vaccination should encourage real-life conversations about vaccines.
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