A5039113240- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Influenza Virus Research Studies
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Social Media in Health Education
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia and Thrombosis
- COVID-19 Impact on Reproduction
- Respiratory viral infections research
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Family Support in Illness
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network
2021-2024
The University of Sydney
2017-2024
National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance
2021-2024
Children's Hospital at Westmead
2021-2024
Sydney Children's Hospital
2022
Macquarie University
2019-2021
Swinburne University of Technology
2020
Médecins Sans Frontières
2008
Vaccination misinformation is associated with serious public health consequences, such as a decrease in vaccination rates and risk of disease outbreaks. Although social media offers organisations promoting unparalleled opportunities to promote evidence counterbalance misinformation, we know relatively little about their internal workings. The aim this paper explore the strategies, perspectives experiences communicators working within they respond on media.Using qualitative methods,...
Understanding the mental shortcuts people make and values they bring to weighing risks is critical informing effective risk communication On 8 April 2021, Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) made Pfizer Comirnaty (BNT162b2[mRNA]) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine preferred for adults aged under 50 years who have not received a first dose of COVID-19 AstraZeneca (ChAdOx1-S).1 This followed an established causal relationship between rare clotting condition...
Vaccination misinformation is widespread on social media. Vaccine-promoting organisations are working to curb its influence, but face obstacles. We aimed analyse their media strategies and the challenges they encounter.In this qualitative study, we purposively sampled 21 participants responsible for from vaccine-promoting organisations. used Framework Analysis explore data.Vaccine-promoting faced obstacles using media, including fast-paced change, limited resources, insufficient...
Objectives. To examine the role that bots play in spreading vaccine information on Twitter by measuring exposure and engagement among active users from United States. Methods. We sampled 53 188 US examined who they follow retweet across 21 million vaccine-related tweets (January 12, 2017–December 3, 2019). Our analyses compared to human-operated accounts vaccine-critical other tweets. Results. The median number of potential exposures per user was 757 (interquartile range [IQR] = 168–4435),...
The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has globally caused widespread disruption, morbidity and mortality. uptake of COVID-19 vaccination is critical for minimising further impacts the pandemic. Health aged care workers (HACWs) play a central role in public confidence vaccines are one priority groups Australia. Qualitative phone interviews with 19 HACWs 21–50 years old from New South Wales, Australia, were conducted, data analysed thematically order to understand factors...
Central to a successful population vaccination program is high uptake of vaccines. However, COVID-19 vaccine may be impeded by beliefs based on misinformation. We sought understand the prevalence and nature misbeliefs about vaccines, identify associated factors, shortly after commencement Australia’s national rollout. A cross-sectional survey was administered unvaccinated young adults (n = 2050) in Australia aged 18–49 years (mean age 33 years), 13 July–21 August 2021. This sample previously...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on people across the world, particularly older adults who have higher risk of death and health complications. We aimed to explore adults’ intention towards vaccination factors that influenced their motivation get vaccinated. A qualitative study was conducted in New South Wales, Australia (April 2021), involving interviews with (aged 70 years older). In-depth were carried out 14 perceptions around vaccination. program just commenced at time data...
Concern about misinformation and inattention to population health advice has highlighted the need understand public confidence trust in government institutions during COVID-19 pandemic. With recent surge of Omicron variant (BA.1) its sub-variant (BA.2), primarily affecting younger people Australia; alongside rapidly changing policies surrounding booster vaccinations, testing, restrictions, isolation, uncertainties around emerging variants this understanding is now more important than ever....
The Internet is increasingly a source of health information for parents, who use the alongside care providers immunisation information. Concerns have been raised about reliability online information, however to date there has no audit quality or quantity what available Australian parents. objective this study was address gap by simulating general search and assessing web sites returned search.We used Google trends identify most common terms in Australia. ten were entered into five engines...
The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated introduction of a novel vaccine has provided researchers with opportunity to investigate how support acceptance reduce hesitancy using approaches. This study aimed understand perceptions unvaccinated Australian adults towards vaccines factors influencing their decision-making. We also explored attitudes communication strategies availability quality resources decision-making preferences during future public health emergencies. In-depth interviews were...
Evidence on repeating vaccination misinformation or "myths" in debunking text is inconclusive; myths may unintentionally increase agreement with help discredit myths. In this study we aimed to compare the effect of and other text-based strategies parents' their intention vaccinate children.For online experiment recruited 788 parents children aged 0 5 years; 454 (58%) completed study. We compared 3 (repeating myths, posing questions, making factual statements) a control. measured changes...
Introduction Achieving high COVID-19 vaccine booster coverage is an ongoing global challenge. Health authorities need evidence about effective communication interventions to improve acceptance and uptake. This study aimed test effects of persuasive messages doses on intention vaccinate amongst eligible adults in Australia. Methods In this online randomised controlled trial, adult participants received one four intervention or a control message. The message provided information dose...
The design and reporting of data-driven studies seeking to measure misinformation are patchy inconsistent, these rarely associations with, or effects on, behaviour. consequence is that not yet useful as an empirical basis for guiding when act on emerging threats, deciding it more appropriate do nothing avoid inadvertently amplifying misinformation. In a narrative review focused examples health-related misinformation, we take critical perspective studies. To address this problem, propose...
Sustained uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, including booster doses, will continue to be key minimising morbidity and mortality caused by COVID-19. Because hesitancy can affect people's motivation get vaccinated, understanding addressing factors influencing acceptance is critical achieving high uptake. This especially the case for adults with underlying health conditions, who are at increased risk severe illness from The aim this study was investigate barriers facilitators vaccine in conditions...
Uptake of COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 5-11 years old in Australia has plateaued. Persuasive messaging is an efficient and adaptable potential intervention to promote vaccine uptake, but evidence its effectiveness varied dependent on context cultural values. This study aimed test persuasive messages Australia.A parallel, online, randomised control experiment was conducted between 14 21 January 2022. Participants were Australian parents a child who had not vaccinated their with...
COVID-19 immunisation providers have been at the forefront of pandemic, and their ability to communicate effectively with patients is key encouraging vaccine acceptance uptake. This study explored providers' perspectives on factors influencing communication about vaccines. We used an explanatory-sequential mixed-methods approach conduct between December 2021 March 2022. Phase I involved a cross-sectional survey in New South Wales (n = 341; 189 general practitioners, 118 nurses 34...