Table 2.
Curated categories (emotions and influencing factors), their description, and seed words.
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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 | ||
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2. Sorrow | Dissatisfaction and disapproval toward the different phases of COVID-19 vaccine production and distribution | Sad, hopeless, worst, disappointment, setback | ||
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3. Faith | Signifies strong belief and confidence in vaccines along with optimistic behavior toward the success of vaccines | Faith, optimism, vaccines work, assurance, grateful | ||
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4. Contentment | Signifies a state of happiness, appreciation, and acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines | Satisfy, glad, proud, gratitude, great, joy | ||
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5. Anticipation | State of urgent demand and necessity of vaccines | Anticipate, urgently, priority, quick, await | ||
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6. Rage | Anger or aggression is associated with conflict arising from a particular situation | Angry, annoyance, hate, mad, pathetic | ||
Influencing factors | |||||
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7. Misinformation | Propagation of false information such as misinterpreted agendas and conceiving vaccines as conspiracy or scam | Propaganda, conspiracy, fraud, fake, poison | ||
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8. Vaccine rollout | Availability and distribution of vaccines through campaigns and mass vaccination drives | Vaccinate, distribution, supply, mass, dose, vaccination drive | ||
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9. Inequities | Socioeconomic disparities are based on societal norms such as caste, race, religion | Socioeconomic, deprive, racial injustice, racism, underrepresented | ||
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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.