Applications of Social Media and Digital Technologies in COVID-19 Vaccination: Scoping Review

作者：Shujie Zang, Xu Zhang, Yuting Xing, Jiaxian Chen, Leesa Lin, Zhiyuan Hou · 发表于：Journal of Medical Internet Research · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.2196/40057 · 被引用次数：29 · 研究领域：Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy、Misinformation and Its Impacts、Data-Driven Disease Surveillance

BACKGROUND: Social media and digital technologies have played essential roles in disseminating information and promoting vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a need to summarize the applications and analytical techniques of social media and digital technologies in monitoring vaccine attitudes and administering COVID-19 vaccines. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to synthesize the global evidence on the applications of social media and digital technologies in COVID-19 vaccination and to explore their avenues to promote COVID-19 vaccination. METHODS: We searched 6 databases (PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, EBSCO, and IEEE Xplore) for English-language articles from December 2019 to August 2022. The search terms covered keywords relating to social media, digital technology, and COVID-19 vaccines. Articles were included if they provided original descriptions of applications of social media or digital health technologies/solutions in COVID-19 vaccination. Conference abstracts, editorials, letters, commentaries, correspondence articles, study protocols, and reviews were excluded. A modified version of the Appraisal Tool for Cross-Sectional Studies (AXIS tool) was used to evaluate the quality of social media-related studies. The review was undertaken with the guidance of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. RESULTS: A total of 178 articles were included in our review, including 114 social media articles and 64 d...