Public Health in the Headlines: A Study of Media Behavior on Discourses on Vaccination During COVID-19.

IF 5.2 3区医学 Q1 IMMUNOLOGY

Vaccines Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI:10.3390/vaccines13090937

Carolina Jann Scalfoni, Edson Theodoro Dos Santos Neto, Tatiana Breder Emerich

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Abstract

Background/objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic was characterized by the rapid transmission of the virus and a global race for vaccines, with vaccines such as AstraZeneca, CoronaVac, Pfizer, and Janssen arriving in Brazil in 2020. Concurrently, an infodemic of information, driven by the media and social media, highlighted the importance of health communication. This study examines how online newspapers in a Brazilian state disseminated information about vaccination and its relationship with vaccine adherence among the population.

Methods: Quantitative research, in which a total of 5308 journalistic articles were verified, using two databases, one for the publication of journalistic articles and the other for vaccinations in the state, which applied 9,577,567 doses in the period.

Results: The analyses demonstrated a positive correlation between the number of publications of articles and the number of applications of vaccines (rho = 0.407, p-value < 0.0005), revealing a relationship of both increase and decrease in the publication of newspaper articles and the application of vaccines in specific weeks during the analysis period. Vaccination data revealed low adherence to the booster dose by the population, with unequal values among the cities of the state.

Conclusions: The study highlighted the potential importance of newspapers in disseminating information about vaccines during the pandemic, underscoring the need for regional health strategies to increase vaccination coverage.

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头条新闻中的公共卫生：COVID-19期间疫苗接种言论的媒体行为研究

背景/目的：2019冠状病毒病大流行的特点是病毒的快速传播和全球疫苗竞争，阿斯利康、冠状动脉、辉瑞和杨森等疫苗于2020年进入巴西。与此同时，在媒体和社交媒体的推动下，信息大流行凸显了卫生传播的重要性。本研究考察了巴西某州的在线报纸如何传播有关疫苗接种的信息及其与人群中疫苗依从性的关系。方法：采用定量研究方法，共验证5308篇新闻文章，使用两个数据库，一个是新闻文章发表数据库，另一个是国家疫苗接种数据库，在此期间使用了9,577,567剂。结果：分析结果表明，文章发表数量与疫苗应用数量呈正相关（rho = 0.407， p值< 0.0005），表明在分析期内的特定周内，报纸文章发表数量与疫苗应用数量的增减均存在关系。疫苗接种数据显示，人口对加强剂量的依从性较低，该州各城市之间的数值不相等。结论：该研究强调了报纸在大流行期间传播疫苗信息方面的潜在重要性，强调了制定区域卫生战略以增加疫苗接种覆盖率的必要性。

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Vaccines Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics-Pharmacology

CiteScore

8.90

自引率

16.70%

发文量

1853

审稿时长

18.06 days

期刊介绍： Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal focused on laboratory and clinical vaccine research, utilization and immunization. Vaccines publishes high quality reviews, regular research papers, communications and case reports.