A content analysis of article studies on anti-vaccination in Turkey

There are many epidemic diseases experienced in the historical process. With the Covid-19 pandemic occurring today, the importance of vaccines and vaccine studies has increased. Although the importance of vaccination practices has emerged due to the pandemics, the number of individuals who do not accept to be vaccinated is also increasing day by day. The aim of this study is to examine the studies conducted between 2010 and 2021 on the Decontamination of vaccines in Turkey. In the research, 38 studies were reached as a result of a search conducted in the Journal Park and Google Academic databases. Dec. The articles were analyzed by content analysis method. The articles examined within the scope of the research were examined in terms of their distribution according to publication years, number of authors, gender of authors, number of pages, provinces, types, journals published, number of sources, source topicality, source types. Codes were given to the examined article studies and the data obtained as a result of the coding was transferred to the Excel program. Percentages of the data were calculated, graphs and tables were created. As a result of the research, the largest number of article studies were conducted in 2020. It has been determined that the maximum number of authors in article studies is published by 2 authors, the Current Journal of Pediatrics, which publishes the largest number of article studies, and 92.11% of the resources used in article studies are current resources. It has been concluded that 63.16% of the references used as sources in the article studies are from foreign sources.