Table 1. Summary of sampled documents.
The table summarizes article characteristics by vaccine sentiment group and describes document type, article source, target vaccine population, vaccine type focus, and specific vaccine topics.
| Vaccine sentiment articles (Total n = 50) |
Positive (n = 23) | Negative (n = 21) | Neutral (n = 6) | |||
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| Document type | Blog = | 8 (34.8%) | Blog = | 15 (71.4%) | News = | 4 (66.7%) |
| News = | 7 (30.4%) | Alternative News = | 2 (9.5%) | Blog = | 1 (16.7%) | |
| Magazine = | 5 (21.7%) | Magazine = | 2 (9.5%) | Magazine = | 1 (16.7%) | |
| Informational = | 3 (13.0%) | Commercial = | 1 (4.8%) | |||
| News = | 1 (4.8%) | |||||
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| Article source type | Media = | 9 (39.1%) | Media = | 15 (71.4%) | Government = | 2 (33.3%) |
| Government = | 8 (34.8%) | Industry = | 3 (14.3%) | Media = | 2 (33.3%) | |
| News = | 4 (17.4%) | Personal = | 2 (9.5%) | News = | 2 (33.3%) | |
| Industry = | 1 (4.4%) | Forum = | 1 (4.8%) | |||
| Resource = | 1 (4.4%) | |||||
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| Target vaccine population | Childhood = | 16 (69.6%) | Childhood = | 15 (71.4%) | Childhood = | 3 (50.0%) |
| Adolescent = | 3 (13.0%) | Adolescent = | 0 | Adolescent = | 2 (33.3%) | |
| Adult = | 1 (4.4%) | Adult = | 0 | Adult = | 1 (16.7%) | |
| Multiple = | 3 (13.0%) | Multiple = | 6 (28.6%) | Multiple = | 0 | |
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| Vaccine type focus | General = | 8 (34.8%) | General = | 14 (66.7%) | General = | 3 (50%) |
| Specific = | 15 (65.2%) | Specific = | 7 (33.3%) | Specific = | 3 (50%) | |
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| Specific vaccines | Measles/MMR = | 9 | Shingles = | 1 | Whooping cough = | 2 |
| HPV = | 3 | Polio = | 1 | Influenza = | 1 | |
| Influenza = | 1 | Gardasil = | 1 | |||
| Meningococcal = | 1 | Measles = | 1 | |||
| Rubella = | 1 | Swine flu = | 1 | |||
| Tdap = | 1 | |||||
| Hepatitis B = | 1 | |||||