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Risk, vaccine hesitancy and information literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Title:
    Risk, vaccine hesitancy and information literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Author: Hicks, Alison ; Lloyd, Annemaree
  • Subjects: HEALTH ; Information Science & Library Science ; Science & Technology ; Technology
  • Description: Introduction. This study seeks to identify how vaccine-hesitant people inform themselves about the Covid-19 vaccine. Prior research has positioned insufficient information or a lack of information skills as linked to vaccine hesitancy but has neglected to account for the role that information literacy plays within processes of becoming informed. Method. 14 semi-structured interviews were held online with vaccine-hesitant people in the UK. Interviews were audio-recorded and professionally transcribed; questions explored the information sources and activities that participants used to become informed about the COVID-19 vaccine. Analysis. Data were coded by each researcher using constant comparative techniques used in constructivist grounded theory methods before being jointly discussed in several online sessions. Results. Initial outcomes of this study suggest that vaccine hesitant and hesitant- influenced action is shaped through the employment of information strategies that bring multiple forms of vaccination risk into being, including social and other health risks. Conclusions. The study has implications for the teaching of information literacy, in particular the conceptualisation that being informed is an affirmative action.
  • Publisher: Information Research, 27(Special issue)
  • Creation Date: 2022
  • Language: English
  • Source: UCL Discovery
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