'Should I vaccinate my child?' comparing the displayed stances of vaccine information retrieved from Google, Facebook and YouTube.

Autor: Elkin LE; Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. Electronic address: lucy.elkin@postgrad.otago.ac.nz., Pullon SRH; Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand., Stubbe MH; Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Vaccine [Vaccine] 2020 Mar 17; Vol. 38 (13), pp. 2771-2778. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Feb 25.
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.02.041
Abstrakt: Whether to vaccinate or not is currently a hot topic in social discourse. Despite the majority view that childhood vaccination is safe and effective, websites and social media content opposing such vaccination are common. In this study, we searched the internet platforms Google, Facebook and YouTube for childhood vaccine information. We made every attempt to minimise selection bias generated by internet algorithms. We compared the displayed stances of vaccine information retrieved. Most of the information had a clearly stated stance on vaccines or made some sort of recommendation on whether or not to vaccinate. Despite our careful attempt to search comprehensively and systematically for vaccine information with as little bias as possible, this search yielded a sizeable minority of vaccine negative information. This research shows that negative vaccine information persists and is readily accessible online despite algorithm and policy changes in recent years, even when searching in the least biased way possible. It is important that vaccine-promoting entities and agencies continue to make every effort to maximize their presence online so that parents searching the internet to answer the question 'should I vaccinate my child?' continue to receive vaccine positive information.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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