Pregnant women who post about the maternal Tdap vaccine on Reddit are mostly looking for advice and reassurance rather than arguments against vaccination, according to a qualitative analysis published this month in PLOS Global Public Health by researchers at Purdue University.
The study summary reports that the research, led by Soojung Jo, documented fewer outright instances of hesitancy or refusal than have generally been observed in social media discussions of other vaccines. The most common pattern was a woman trying to resolve a specific question her clinician had not fully answered.
