Lleida primary care obtains the 1st Scholarship of the Catalan Pediatric Society for a study on the effects of the anti-vaccine movement on social networks
The Lleidatà research team, led by CAP pediatrician Rambla Ferran Agnès Huguet, has analyzed the relationship between these messages and the doubt or rejection of vaccines in a part of the population.
A team of primary care professionals from Lleida, led by CAP pediatrician Rambla Ferran Agnès Huguet, has obtained the 1st Grant from the Catalan Pediatric Society for their project 'Vaccination in vaccination in the population and deconstruction of anti-vaccine messages in social networks'. The objective of this study has been to analyze if there is a relationship between the doubt or rejection of vaccination of a part of the population and the messages of the anti-vaccine movement on social networks.
Specifically, the project aims to characterize the population with doubts or rejection of vaccination and determine their knowledge and opinions about vaccines. The study also analyzes messages on social networks in order to propose effective interventions to increase vaccination coverage in primary care and, at the same time, empower health professionals to fight against false and misleading information. The study begins as a result of the fact that in 2019 the World Health Organization classified vaccinating vaccinations caused by anti-vaccine movements as one of the 10 main threats to global health and, in 2020, it was shouting for action to fight against fake news.
Together with Agnès Huguet, Marta Ortega, family doctor and coordinator of the Support Unit in search of Lleida, are part of the research team; Eva M. Artigas, nurse and doctor in Health, and Quim Sol, statistical technician, all of them primary care professionals from the Catalan Institute of Health in Lleida and researchers from the IDIAP Jordi Gol y Gurina Primary Care Research Foundation. The scholarship, in collaboration with Sanofi Pasteur, was awarded last Friday, February 5, to the III Day of Vaccines in Primary Care Pediatrics that was held in Vilanova i la Geltrú.
