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. 2023 May 2;3:e34315. doi: 10.2196/34315

Table 2.

Curated categories (emotions and influencing factors), their description, and seed words.

Category Description Seed words
Emotions

1. Hesitation Sceptic attitude and reluctance toward being vaccinated due to multiple negative factors affecting an individual’s opinions Anxious, nervous, fear, consequences, uncertain, hesitation, suspicion, harm

2. Sorrow Dissatisfaction and disapproval toward the different phases of COVID-19 vaccine production and distribution Sad, hopeless, worst, disappointment, setback

3. Faith Signifies strong belief and confidence in vaccines along with optimistic behavior toward the success of vaccines Faith, optimism, vaccines work, assurance, grateful

4. Contentment Signifies a state of happiness, appreciation, and acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines Satisfy, glad, proud, gratitude, great, joy

5. Anticipation State of urgent demand and necessity of vaccines Anticipate, urgently, priority, quick, await

6. Rage Anger or aggression is associated with conflict arising from a particular situation Angry, annoyance, hate, mad, pathetic
Influencing factors

7. Misinformation Propagation of false information such as misinterpreted agendas and conceiving vaccines as conspiracy or scam Propaganda, conspiracy, fraud, fake, poison

8. Vaccine rollout Availability and distribution of vaccines through campaigns and mass vaccination drives Vaccinate, distribution, supply, mass, dose, vaccination drive

9. Inequities Socioeconomic disparities are based on societal norms such as caste, race, religion Socioeconomic, deprive, racial injustice, racism, underrepresented

10. Health effects Mentions of health-related adverse events caused by or affected by vaccines, including diseases, symptoms, and pre-existing conditions From the VAERSa database (eg, headache, fatigue, inflammation)

aVAERS: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System.