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. 2019 Dec 11;9(12):e033245.
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033245.

Current tools available for investigating vaccine hesitancy: a scoping review protocol

Elizabeth O Oduwole  1   2 , Elizabeth D Pienaar  2 , Hassan Mahomed  3   4 , Charles Shey Wiysonge  2   5   6
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Current tools available for investigating vaccine hesitancy: a scoping review protocol

Elizabeth O Oduwole et al. BMJ Open. .

Abstract

Introduction: Vaccine hesitancy, defined as the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccination despite availability of vaccination services is responsible in part for suboptimal levels of vaccination coverage worldwide. The WHO recommends that countries incorporate plans to measure and address vaccine hesitancy into their immunisation programmes. This requires that governments and health institutions be able to detect concerns about vaccination in the population and monitor changes in vaccination behaviours. To do this effectively, tools to detect and measure vaccine hesitancy are required. The purpose of this scoping review is to give a broad overview of currently available vaccine hesitancy measuring tools and present a summary of their nature, similarities and differences.

Methods and analysis: The review will be conducted using the framework for scoping review proffered by Arksey and O'Malley. It will comply with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews' guidelines. The broader research question of this review is: what vaccine hesitancy measuring tools are currently available?Search strategies will be developed using controlled vocabulary and selected keywords. PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus and reference lists of relevant publications will be searched. Titles and abstracts will be independently screened by two authors and data from full-text articles meeting the inclusion criteria will be extracted independently by two authors using a pretested data charting form. Discrepancies will be resolved by discussion and consensus. Results will be presented using descriptive statistics such as percentages, tables, charts and flow diagrams as appropriate. Narrative analysis will be used to summarise the findings of the review.

Ethics and dissemination: Ethics approval is not required for the review. It will be submitted as part of a doctoral thesis, presented at conferences and published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Trial registration number: https://osf.io/x8fjk/.

Keywords: Public health; immunization; scoping reviews; tools; vaccination; vaccine hesitancy.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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