Abstract
Objectivesto examine pregnant Turkish women's opinions on COVID-19 vaccines. Designa qualitative approach was used to gather data through semi-structured interviews. Participants and setting16 women about to receive a vaccine during their pregnancy and who did or did not experience vaccine hesitancy participated. Analysisqualitative content analysis. Findingsthree main themes emerged regarding the pregnant women's opinions on COVID-19 vaccines: fear, security/insecurity and social support. Key conclusions and implications for practicepregnant women mostly recalled their babies and fears about COVID-19 vaccines. Although the fear of vaccines created vaccine hesitancy during pregnancy, the fear of contracting COVID-19 led to a positive attitude to the vaccines. It is critical to provide pregnant women with information about COVID-19 and vaccines for the disease in order to enhance vaccination rates among pregnant women.
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