Youtube videos and decision making about the covid-19 vaccine in Brazil

International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
12
Article ID: 
25741
3 pages
Research Article

Youtube videos and decision making about the covid-19 vaccine in Brazil

Patricia Cincotto dos Santos Bueno, Ana Carolina de Magalhaes Leite Turola, Beatriz dos Santos Bueno, Maria Gabriella Vido Dutra, Vitória Bonini Parsekian, Carlo Rossi Del Carratore, Cláudia Sampaio Fonseca Repetti, Raul José Silva Girio, Rodolfo Claudio Spers, Lucas Aparecido Gaion, Marcilio Félix, Rodrigo Prevedello Franco, Domingos Donizeti Roque and Fabio Fernando Ribeiro Manhoso

Abstract: 

In 2020, the outbreak of COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency. In 2021, after the development of vaccines, a next challenge arises, being the immunization of as many individuals as possible. Although the search for vaccine production was carried out in a short period, and the advantages of vaccination programs are known worldwide, there is a reluctance to vaccine. Social media are effects of actions that replicate, disseminate and publish information and arguments about vaccination are no different, and thousands of information and positions on immunizers were discussed. The present study seeks to elucidate the impact of information on vaccination against COVID-19 made available on YouTube. Was analyzed 100 videos in different profiles. Our data show the influence that social media can have on population-wide acceptance of vaccines and this fact must be urgently addressed by Public Health Service agencies. At the time of this study, videos uploaded by healthcare professionals accounted for just over half of the viewed videos that reached millions of people. Is require different approaches to solve this problem. Improving the extent to which social media reaches the public with understandable, up-to-date and scientifically accurate information should be part of a national strategy.

DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.37118/ijdr.25741.11.2022
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