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Scoping Review of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Japanese Healthcare Providers
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: Received: 25 July 2024 / Approved: 25 July 2024 / Online: 26 July 2024 (06:20:33 CEST)
How to cite: Nash, C. Scoping Review of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Japanese Healthcare Providers. Preprints 2024, 2024072100. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2100.v1 Nash, C. Scoping Review of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Japanese Healthcare Providers. Preprints 2024, 2024072100. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2100.v1
Abstract
A recent publication regarding a March 2023 Google Scholar search found Japan unique in healthcare providers’ reaction to COVID-19 vaccines. According to one article, negative sentiment by healthcare providers toward vaccines defines the research in this area, with concerns about side effects outweighing worries regarding infection. This current study investigates the anomaly through a scoping review of “COVID-19, Japan, vaccine hesitancy” in six relevant databases: Cochrane COVID-19 Study Register, OVID, ProQuest, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science. By following PRISMA guidelines, the intent is a more thorough examination of this unusual evalua-tion of COVID-19 vaccines by Japanese healthcare providers than offered by the March 2023 search. The finding is that of the 997 returns, only four were relevant for assessment inclusion. Of these four, three, published in Vaccines, support vaccine hesitancy in Japanese healthcare providers and their becoming more so regarding a subsequent dose of the vaccine. One article published in BMJ Open did not find this. Yet, the design of none of the studies was specific to investigating vaccine hesitancy in Japanese healthcare providers, making the conclusion questionable. Suggest-ed future research directions include investigating the primacy of those databases searched and the need for timeliness in examining COVID-19 anomalies
Keywords
COVID-19; Japan; vaccine hesitancy; healthcare providers; databases
Subject
Public Health and Healthcare, Public Health and Health Services
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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