Identifying Facilitators and Barriers to Increasing COVID-19 Vaccination and Trial Participation in Vaccinated Vietnamese Americans

Background: Preventing morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 requires reaching diverse communities. Purpose: To identify facilitators and barriers to COVID-19 immunization and COVID-19 clinical trial participation in the vaccinated Vietnamese American population in Houston, TX. Methods: Community-based qualitative study using focus groups and key informant interviews. Results: Themes that emerged included culturally appropriate language, generational differences, and a collectivist approach. Conclusion: Promoting science-based information through trusted messengers, improving awareness and access, and illuminating benefits to the community could increase the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines and volunteering for therapeutic trials among Vietnamese Americans.

• Publication year

  2022

• Venue

  Health Equity

• Publication date

  2022-06-27

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1089/heq.2022.0032PMID 35801146PMCID 9257542
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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