A cross sectional study to examine factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitancy and refusal in urban and rural settings in Tamil Nadu, India

Ashish Joshi; Krishna Mohan Surapaneni; Mahima Kaur; Ashruti Bhatt; Denis Nash; Ayman El-Mohandes

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0269299

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A cross sectional study to examine factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitancy and refusal in urban and rural settings in Tamil Nadu, India

Ashish Joshi ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: ashish.joshi@sph.cuny.edu

Affiliations City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, New York, United States of America, CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, New York, New York, United States of America, SMAART PHIC, Panimalar Medical College Hospital & Research Institute, Chennai, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-9839

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Krishna Mohan Surapaneni,

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation SMAART PHIC, Panimalar Medical College Hospital & Research Institute, Chennai, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5204-5708

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Mahima Kaur,

Roles Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SMAART PHIC, Panimalar Medical College Hospital & Research Institute, Chennai, India, Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society, Delhi, India
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Ashruti Bhatt,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations SMAART PHIC, Panimalar Medical College Hospital & Research Institute, Chennai, India, Foundation of Healthcare Technologies Society, Delhi, India
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Denis Nash,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, New York, United States of America, CUNY Institute for Implementation Science in Population Health, New York, New York, United States of America
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Ayman El-Mohandes

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, New York, New York, United States of America
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A cross sectional study to examine factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitancy and refusal in urban and rural settings in Tamil Nadu, India

Ashish Joshi,
Krishna Mohan Surapaneni,
Mahima Kaur,
Ashruti Bhatt,
Denis Nash,
Ayman El-Mohandes

Published: June 9, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269299

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