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Table 1 Profile of the included studies

From: The swine flu vaccine, public attitudes, and researcher interpretations: a systematic review of qualitative research

First author, year

Where

Who

Data source

When

Authors’ aim

Björkman, 2013 [47]

Sweden

General public Not vaccinated

Individual interviews

28 participants

Winter

2010–11

To explore motives, beliefs and reactions of individuals with varying backgrounds who did not get vaccinated.

Boerner, 2013 [53]

Canada

General public.

Focus groups and key informant interviews

130 participants

November-February 2010-11

To identify and analyse the factors related to vaccine uptake and refusal

Boyd, 2013 [43]

USA (Georgia)

Priority group

(Low income women)

Health care providers

6 focus groups and 10 key informant interviews

66 participants

June–August 2010

To explore knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of low-income women; improve communication in emergency response. To identify factors that affect this high priority group’s ability to successfully comply with vaccination recommendations.

Caress, 2010 [50]

UK

Priority group (Respiratory conditions)

3 focus groups and 13 individual interviews

43 participants

November 2009–January 2010

To explore and compare info needs, worries and concerns, and health-related behaviours regarding H1N1 in people with respiratory conditions and their family members

Cassady, 2012 [46]

USA (California)

Priority group (Latino hard-to-reach populations)

10 focus groups

90 participants

Summer 2010

To gather a better understanding of the dynamics that limit flu and H1N1 vaccination among hard-to-reach Latinos in California.

d’Alessandro, 2012 [45]

France

Priority group (Cyctic fibrosis patients)

Individual interviews

42 participants

June 2010

To analyse the reasons for refusal of H1N1 vaccination. Perceptions of vaccine, disease, related risks in patients that declined and accepted the vaccination

Driedger, 2013 [58]

Canada

Priority group (Aboriginal peoples)

23 focus groups and 20 individual interviews

213 participants

August 2009–June 2012

Focus on how First Nations and Metis people in Manitoba, Canada, responded to the public health management of pandemic H1N1

Henrich, 2012 [52]

Canada

General public

Online comments to news articles

1,796 commentators

March 2009–May 2010

Despite efforts to promote vaccination, the public’s intent to vaccinate remained low. In order to better understand the public’s resistance to getting vaccinated this study addressed factors influencing the public’s decisions

Hidiroglu, 2010 [49]

Turkey

Priority group (Health care providers)

Focus groups

33 participants

November 2009

To explore the factors that lead to resistance to vaccination among a group of primary healthcare workers in a district in Istanbul.

Hilton, 2010 [54]

UK

General public

Priority groups (Pregnant women)

14 focus groups

73 participants

October 2009–January 2010

To gain new insights into public understandings of the role of key players in the pandemic and to explore how people deciphered the threat and perceived whether they could control the risks.

Lynch, 2012 [51]

USA

Priority group (Pregnant women)

18 focus groups

144 participants

September 2009

Presents findings from pregnant and recently pregnant women regarding their perceptions about the 2009 H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccines. The paper further identifies needed info to improve communication strategies to encourage the H1N1 and seasonal flu vaccine and potentially future pandemic vaccines.

Oria, 2011 [55]

Kenya

Priority group (Health care providers)

16 focus groups

113 participants

January 2010

To characterize health care providers HCWs’ knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding pH1N1 vaccination,

Prieto Rodríguez, 2009 [57]

Spain

General public Priority groups Health care providers

10 focus groups

51 participants

January–February 2010

To identify opinions of the general population, risk groups and health care providers of the 2009-repercussions.

Sim, 2011 [44]

UK

Priority group (Pregnant women)

Individual interviews

10 participants

November 2009

To assess how pregnant Polish migrants to Scotland weighed up the risks and benefits of the V for pandemic H1N1 flu in comparison with their Scottish counterparts.

Siu, 2012 [56]

China

(Hong Kong)

Priority group (Chronic renal disease patients) Not vaccinated

Individual interviews

40 participants

December 2009–March 2010

To demonstrate the perceptions of patients with chronic renal disease in Hong Kong towards the new vaccine for H1N1, as well as the main disincentives.

Teasdale, 2011 [48]

UK

General public

11 focus groups

48 participants

September–November 2009

To explore people’s beliefs, perceptions, reasoning, and emotional and contextual factors that may influence responses to government advice for managing flu pandemics