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Research Roundup: COVID-19 Recovery & the Vaccine and More | BioSpace.

Ethos Nazli et al (2021) - conducted a cross-sectional study during the covid-19 outbreak with the aim to investigate the psychological factors affecting vaccine hesitancy..

Aim: To investigate if gender played a systemic factor in the general public's intentions to get the Covid-19 vaccine (also considering healthcare workers HCW).

How we intend to build upon Zintel et al. - Inspired by the primary goal of the research to develop our question . - Zintel’s research highlighted and suggested there is a gender difference in attitudes to the vaccine. - We intend to build from this and investigate the discourse around the general public's attitudes vaccine intentions and hesitancy. -We shall adopt a similar research strategy in searching for key words to analyse..

How does the role of gender influence attitudes towards the Covid-19 Vaccine?.

Discourse analysis.. Using social media platforms or forums instead of surveys, such as Twitter, Instagram, public forums, Reddit..

“This vaccine keeps messing me up 3 months later, we really need proper research on the vaccine and its side effects on women.” “Studies are only starting on the effects of the vaccine on women's menstruation because of how many have experienced side effects.” “I'm in a dilemma if I should get the vaccine or not because of the side effects seen in females under 50.”.

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"Need help advice: want to get the vaccine but have anxiety 21f" " Very confused and torn about getting vaccine" "stories of people getting bad side-effects have absolutely freaked me out!".

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Needle. Conclusion/Discussion. Vaccine hesitancy amongst female HCWs is vital area to be investigated as they make up a significant proportion of the UK healthcare work-force Bringing it back to the original aims of Zintel et al it’s clear that there are multiple overlapping factors (gender) The research highlights how important it is to analyse the discourse around looking at the public views on public health matters. Women are more likely to make health-related decisions for their children ( exposed to inaccurate information) (Nazlı, Yığman, Sevindik and Deniz Özturan, 2021).

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