Table 4.
Qualitative results for suggestions to promote vaccine confidence.
| Code | Operational Definition | Example Quotation | % Frequency | Occurrence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridging gaps in knowledge of vaccine | Ways to improve transparency and information dissemination between scientific community and general public | “Initially we focused on making sure people understood what a vaccine is and that it’s not like a magic bubble.” —Non-medical health professional |
18.75% | 3 |
| Public health/vaccine policies and programs suggestions | Public health vaccination programs or policies that make it easier for people to receive vaccination and that are widely applied | “A targeted approach and maybe increasing resources in some of those areas where the families just aren’t really going to be able to access things or advocate for things on their own.” —Social worker |
18.75% | 3 |
| Suggestions for future research | Future research ideas or suggestions | “I think that we should have additional studies to that should be conducted on vaccines for different populations.” | 12.50% | 2 |
| Suggestions for families and caregivers | Ways families can help themselves or their community become more confident in the COVID-19 vaccine | “Family members who bring in the patient are also a source of support and calm and understands exactly what’s going to happen and is well coordinated, [this] reduces the patient’s anxiety.” —Medical Professional |
50.00% | 8 |
| Communication | Suggestions for improving patient–provider communication | “I’d say the most important thing is nobody likes surprises. The more we can explain up front, maybe you walk through the scenario, talk through how it’s going to go, the smoother things will go.” —Medical Professional |
75.00% | 12 |
| Medical/epidemiology knowledge | Suggestions for health care providers to improve their own medical knowledge (re: vaccinations) | “So, what [colleague physician] did is she went and downloaded all the articles. Now, she wasn’t saying to the patients that they need to go read all those articles. She’s basically saying, I know how to read all those articles. And I read them all and I can tell you about it.” —Non-medical health professional |
12.50% | 2 |
| Training | Recommendation for improving the training of health care professionals and students in training | “We have implemented some training to have our medical assistants take a smidgeon longer with some of these anxious patients because maybe that’s all they need.” —Medical professional |
31.25% | 5 |
| Accommodations designed to remove of structural barriers to vaccination access | Accommodations to alleviate structural or socioeconomic barriers that prevent people from receiving vaccines | “So, you’re being thoughtful that you know, this needs to be addressed and maybe revisit periodically to check in is important, maybe scheduling those patients are a little bit of extra time, maybe doing that prep work ahead of time during email or something like that.” —Medical professional |
50.00% | 8 |
Caption 4. Qualitative results for suggestions to promote vaccine confidence by category, operational definitions, example quotation, and percentage frequency.