VACCINATION HESITANCY AS THEME OF DOCTOR THESIS AND MASTER THESIS OF BRAZIL
Keywords:
Vaccination hesitancy, Metric studies, Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and DissertationsAbstract
This study aims to map Brazilian doctor thesis and master thesis retrieved from the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) using the term "vaccination hesitancy" in the "Subject" field, characterizing their distribution by time, institution, geography, and area of knowledge. It is an exploratory, descriptive study employing a quantitative approach and presenting preliminary results. Methodologically, the term "vaccination hesitancy" was used in the advanced search of the aforementioned digital database, with results subsequently filtered by "Subject." This strategy yielded 38 documents published between 2022 and 2025 with a predominance of works from the Southeast region of Brazil and Health Sciences as the primary area of knowledge. The study concludes that the term used is likely still emerging and that further research addressing the topic may exist in other sources or under different descriptors.