COVID-19 vaccine perceptions among South Asian communities in the UK: An application of the theory of planned behavior

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Akbar, MB
Singh, L
Deshpande, S
Amoncar, N
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2022
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Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, this paper explores the perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine among South Asian communities residing in the UK. Thirty-eight semi-structured interviews were conducted using a qualitative approach and analyzed using thematic analysis. Participants represented Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Afghani, and Nepali backgrounds. The participants revealed that family and community influence their perceptions of the COVID-19 vaccine. The results suggest that normalizing vaccine acceptance, addressing unknown side effects, and popularizing vaccine efficacy data will increase vaccine uptake within the South Asian community in the UK.

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Health Marketing Quarterly

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© 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.

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Sociology

Sociology of health

Marketing

COVID-19

South Asians

UK

intention

perception

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Akbar, MB; Singh, L; Deshpande, S; Amoncar, N, COVID-19 vaccine perceptions among South Asian communities in the UK: An application of the theory of planned behavior, Health Marketing Quarterly, 2022

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