COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in a tribal-state of India: A cross-sectional study
Tanya Tanu, Dewesh Kumar, Mithilesh Kumar, Vidya Sagar, Prerna Anand, Ravi R. Jha, Rishabh K. Rana, Sahil N. Rajnish, Apoorva Wasnik, N. Venkatesh · 2025
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Tanya Tanu and nine co-authors measure COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy at the main vaccination center of Jharkhand, India's tribal-majority state. Their 2025 cross-sectional study recruits 625 adults from the center's booking lists at the state's largest teaching hospital. Hesitancy here means delaying or refusing shots despite services being available.
Of those surveyed, 165 showed hesitancy. Fear of side effects, short or long term, led the reasons at 31.7 percent, followed by fear of the injection's pain and distrust from the short trial timeline, each near 15 percent. The team frame hesitancy through the 5C model: confidence, convenience, complacency, and communication. They argue the pattern clusters geographically and feeds local outbreaks. Fixes, they say, must work at both the personal and system level.
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| CREATOR | Tanya Tanu, Dewesh Kumar, Mithilesh Kumar, Vidya Sagar, Prerna Anand, Ravi R. Jha, Rishabh K. Rana, Sahil N. Rajnish, Apoorva Wasnik, N. Venkatesh |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |