AIMC Topic: Vaccination Hesitancy

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Vaccination at a crossroad: science, politics and public trust.

Swiss medical weekly
Vaccine hesitancy threatens to erode one of medicine's greatest achievements. Recent measles outbreaks in Europe and the United States illustrate the consequences of declining confidence. At the centre lies misinformation, amplified through digital n...

Evaluating Large Language Models for Sentiment Analysis and Hesitancy Analysis on Vaccine Posts From Social Media: Qualitative Study.

JMIR formative research
BACKGROUND: In the digital age, social media has become a crucial platform for public discourse on diverse health-related topics, including vaccines. Efficient sentiment analysis and hesitancy detection are essential for understanding public opinions...

Drivers of herpes zoster vaccine hesitancy in adults aged 50 and above: A machine learning approach.

Vaccine
BACKGROUND: Herpes zoster (HZ) poses a growing public health challenge among adults aged 50 and above, with vaccine hesitancy being a major barrier to improving immunization rates. Understanding the factors driving HZ vaccine hesitancy is essential f...

Using machine learning models to predict vaccine hesitancy: a showcase of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in rural populations during the pandemic.

Vaccine
Understanding vaccine hesitancy is a critical public health challenge, yet traditional statistical methods often fail to capture the complex drivers behind it. This study uses COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in a rural population as a case study to demons...

Effects of a Theory- and Evidence-Based, Motivational Interviewing-Oriented Artificial Intelligence Digital Assistant on Vaccine Attitudes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: Attitude-targeted interventions are important approaches for promoting vaccination. Educational approaches alone cannot effectively cultivate positive vaccine attitudes. Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots and motivational interv...

Influencing factors and dynamic changes of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in China: From the perspective of machine learning analysis.

Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics
Exploring the influencing factors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and summarizing countermeasures is of great significance for effectively addressing potential public health crises. Based on survey data from China, we employed a Gradient Boosting Decis...

Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

BMC medicine
BACKGROUND: Vaccine hesitancy, the delay in acceptance or reluctance to vaccinate, ranks among the top threats to global health. Identifying modifiable factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy is crucial for developing targeted interventions to incr...

Combining machine learning models and rule engines in clinical decision systems: Exploring optimal aggregation methods for vaccine hesitancy prediction.

Computers in biology and medicine
BACKGROUND: With the increasing application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the healthcare sector and the emergence of new solutions, such as large language models, there is a growing need to combine medical knowledge, often expressed...

[Digital innovations in vaccination communication].

Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
Despite the significant success of vaccinations, increasing vaccine hesitancy poses a threat to public health, making effective vaccination communication essential. Both personalized, needs-based conversations between healthcare providers and patient...

Identifying psychological predictors of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: A machine learning study.

Vaccine
BACKGROUND: Major barriers to addressing SARS-CoV-2 vaccine hesitancy include limited knowledge of what causes delay/refusal of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and limited ability to predict who will remain unvaccinated over significant time periods despite v...