First author, year | Where | Who | Data source | When | Authors’ aim |
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Björkman, 2013 [47] | Sweden | General public Not vaccinated | Individual interviews 28 participants | Winter 2010–11 | To explore motives, beliefs and reactions of individuals with varying backgrounds who did not get vaccinated. |
Boerner, 2013 [53] | Canada | General public. | Focus groups and key informant interviews 130 participants | November-February 2010-11 | To identify and analyse the factors related to vaccine uptake and refusal |
Boyd, 2013 [43] | USA (Georgia) | Priority group (Low income women) Health care providers | 6 focus groups and 10 key informant interviews 66 participants | June–August 2010 | To explore knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of low-income women; improve communication in emergency response. To identify factors that affect this high priority group’s ability to successfully comply with vaccination recommendations. |
Caress, 2010 [50] | UK | Priority group (Respiratory conditions) | 3 focus groups and 13 individual interviews 43 participants | November 2009–January 2010 | To explore and compare info needs, worries and concerns, and health-related behaviours regarding H1N1 in people with respiratory conditions and their family members |
Cassady, 2012 [46] | USA (California) | Priority group (Latino hard-to-reach populations) | 10 focus groups 90 participants | Summer 2010 | To gather a better understanding of the dynamics that limit flu and H1N1 vaccination among hard-to-reach Latinos in California. |
d’Alessandro, 2012 [45] | France | Priority group (Cyctic fibrosis patients) | Individual interviews 42 participants | June 2010 | To analyse the reasons for refusal of H1N1 vaccination. Perceptions of vaccine, disease, related risks in patients that declined and accepted the vaccination |
Driedger, 2013 [58] | Canada | Priority group (Aboriginal peoples) | 23 focus groups and 20 individual interviews 213 participants | August 2009–June 2012 | Focus on how First Nations and Metis people in Manitoba, Canada, responded to the public health management of pandemic H1N1 |
Henrich, 2012 [52] | Canada | General public | Online comments to news articles 1,796 commentators | March 2009–May 2010 | Despite efforts to promote vaccination, the public’s intent to vaccinate remained low. In order to better understand the public’s resistance to getting vaccinated this study addressed factors influencing the public’s decisions |
Hidiroglu, 2010 [49] | Turkey | Priority group (Health care providers) | Focus groups 33 participants | November 2009 | To explore the factors that lead to resistance to vaccination among a group of primary healthcare workers in a district in Istanbul. |
Hilton, 2010 [54] | UK | General public Priority groups (Pregnant women) | 14 focus groups 73 participants | October 2009–January 2010 | To gain new insights into public understandings of the role of key players in the pandemic and to explore how people deciphered the threat and perceived whether they could control the risks. |
Lynch, 2012 [51] | USA | Priority group (Pregnant women) | 18 focus groups 144 participants | September 2009 | Presents findings from pregnant and recently pregnant women regarding their perceptions about the 2009 H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines. The paper further identifies needed info to improve communication strategies to encourage the H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccine and potentially future pandemic vaccines. |
Oria, 2011 [55] | Kenya | Priority group (Health care providers) | 16 focus groups 113 participants | January 2010 | To characterize health care providers HCWs’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding pH1N1 vaccination, |
Prieto Rodríguez, 2009 [57] | Spain | General public Priority groups Health care providers | 10 focus groups 51 participants | January–February 2010 | To identify opinions of the general population, risk groups and health care providers of the 2009-repercussions. |
Sim, 2011 [44] | UK | Priority group (Pregnant women) | Individual interviews 10 participants | November 2009 | To assess how pregnant Polish migrants to Scotland weighed up the risks and benefits of the V for pandemic H1N1 flu in comparison with their Scottish counterparts. |
Siu, 2012 [56] | China (Hong Kong) | Priority group (Chronic renal disease patients) Not vaccinated | Individual interviews 40 participants | December 2009–March 2010 | To demonstrate the perceptions of patients with chronic renal disease in Hong Kong towards the new vaccine for H1N1, as well as the main disincentives. |
Teasdale, 2011 [48] | UK | General public | 11 focus groups 48 participants | September–November 2009 | To explore people’s beliefs, perceptions, reasoning, and emotional and contextual factors that may influence responses to government advice for managing flu pandemics |