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Motivations, views, and experiences of COVID-19 vaccine trial participants
Seminar details
Samantha Vanderslott gave the QHRN seminar on the 6th January 2022.
Title: Motivations, views, and experiences of COVID-19 vaccine trial participants
Date: 6th January 2022
Time: 12:00-13:00
Location: Zoom
Abstract
This talk is about 'COVQUAL': a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and mixed-methods research project surveying and interviewing vaccine trial participants during the COVID-19 pandemic. We recruited from a purposeful sample of 770 healthy volunteers aged 18–55 years enrolled in a first-in-human COVID-19 vaccine trial in Oxford, UK. The research aimed to find out about the participants' motivations, views, and experiences in the trial, which also involved reflections on the pandemic and a (then) future COVID-19 vaccine. For the survey, we received 349 responses, and we conducted semi-structured interviews with 102 participants. I will detail the methodological approach we undertook and discuss being an embedded social sciences researcher in a vaccine group that undertakes clinical trials – which included putting together an interdisciplinary team and decisions made about the project organisation and our publishing strategy.
Biography
Samantha Vanderslott is a University Research Lecturer at the Oxford Vaccine Group. She is currently researching public attitudes and decisions on vaccination, particularly in relation to pro-vaccination behaviours and vaccine acceptance.
Seminar recording