Infodemia and Vaccination Indecision During COVID-19 Uncertainty

Year 2022, Volume: 25 Issue: 3, 184 - 188, 30.09.2022

Hamide Coşkun Erçelik

https://doi.org/10.5152/JANHS.2022.902401

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has created an infodemia feeding on uncertainty. The
soaring numbers of daily COVID-19 cases and casualties also brought about an urgent need for
immediate knowledge overflow, which eventually led to a rapid spread of unreliable information
pollution. Information pollution, or infodemia, spreads almost as fast as coronavirus and compromises the pandemic control efforts. Considering the fact that mass vaccination is essential
and vital to fight against the pandemic, it would be reasonable to argue that infodemia has a far-reaching influence on the public opinion toward the vaccination. This review, therefore, was written to increase the knowledge and awareness of health-care professionals, who play an important
role in the society’s acceptance of vaccines, about the effects of infodemia and on vaccination
indecision during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

COVID-19, infodemia, pandemic, vaccination indecision, vaccine

COVID-19 Belirsizliğinde İnfodemi ve Aşı Kararsızlığı

Abstract

Koronavirüs Hastalığı (COVID-19) pandemisi beraberinde belirsizlikten beslenen infodemi kavramını getirmiştir. Koronovirüsün her geçen gün yayılmaya devam etmesi ve çok sayıda ölüme yol
açması, kısa sürede çok fazla bilgi üretilmesini zorunlu kılmıştır. Hızlı bilgi üretme kaygısı ise, güvenilir olmayan bilgilerin oluşmasına zemin hazırlamaktadır. Bilgi kirliliği, tıpkı koronovirüs gibi hızla
yayılarak salgının kontrolünü zorlaştırmaktadır. Pandemiyle mücadelede toplumun büyük bir kısmının aşılanmasının gerekliliği düşünüldüğünde; infodemi kavramı, toplumun aşı fikirlerini etkilemesi bakımından oldukça önemlidir. Bu derleme; toplumun aşı kabulünde önemli rol üstlenen
sağlık profesyonellerinin, koronavirüs salgınında infodemi ve aşı kararsızlığına etkileri konusunda
bilgi ve farkındalıklarını artırmak amacıyla yazılmıştır.

Keywords

COVID-19, infodemi, pandemi, aşı kararsızlığı, aşı

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