Keywords
COVID-19
Pregnant women
Disinformation
Vaccine hesitancy
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Abstract
ABSTRACTObjective: To analyze, in scientific literature, how misinformation participates in the production of meaning in pregnant women's decisions about whether or not to take the COVID-19 vaccine. Methods: This is an integrative review of the literature, to conduct the search and selection, the PICO and PRISMA strategies were used, the searches were carried out in journals indexed in the PubMed and Virtual Health Library (VHL) databases, in PubMed, MeSH descriptors were used and in the VHL, DeCS descriptors were used. In addition to the use of the Boolean operators AND and OR. Results: The analysis indicated that several factors influence the vaccination decision: a) The circulation of misinformation; b) Trust in institutions and health professionals; c) Personal experience and social relationships; d) Socioeconomic conditions. Final considerations: Vaccine hesitancy is characterized as a socially constructed phenomenon, in which the meanings attributed to vaccination are produced in everyday discursive practices. Disinformation plays an active and structuring role; in addition to being characterized as an interpretative repertoire that competes in legitimacy with scientific discourse, it reorganizes perceptions about risk, safety and protection, making it possible to shift the meaning of care by making non-vaccination interpreted as a form of maternal and child protection.
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