Covid-۱۹ Vaccination Hesitancy among General Population: A Gender based Review and Bibliometric Analysis

December ۲۰۱۹ was momentous, since it experienced the trajectory of another novel pathogenic HCoV recognized as ۲۰۱۹-nCoV in Wuhan, China, which further unfurled to all the countries in the entire globe; at a lightning stride. Majority of covid-۱۹ vaccines are being manufactured using protein subunit, viral vector, inactivated virus, DNA and mRNA vaccine platforms. To do a gender-based review of the Covid Vaccine Hesitancy among general population and conduct bibliometric analysis. Various articles related to covid vaccine hesitancy, either in the title, abstract or as keywords in search strategy was done. For COVID vaccine hesitancy; we used the definition of “ Reluctance to receive safe and recommended available vaccines”. Thus ۴۰۸ articles remained for complete evaluation. Finally, these were taken for bibliometric analysis. Data Analysis was done using the Vos viewer Software vs. The strength of co – cited publications showed strong contributors from American and Asian continents. Words with maximum weightage based on their occurrences were female, health personnel, acceptance, social media, socio-economic factors, ethnic groups etc as covered in the red cluster. Whereas, Overlay Visualization on the right-hand side based on the total link strength of MeSH items shows largest clusters with items such as females, attitude to health, trust, cross-sectional studies, acceptance of health care, rural population, public health, parents etc which were towards the centre. The terms towards periphery which have less weightage, need more surveys. Greater perceived susceptibility, risk perception and benefits as well as low levels of barriers and self-efficacy were the prime reasons a person would intent to vaccinate and more specifically among females. The female being the decision maker of the family in most instances, needs to be attended first who can further change the mindset of the entire family and carry the future forward.

کلیدواژه ها:

COVID Vaccine Hesitancy ، Intention to Vaccinate ، Risk perception