Understanding the Influence of Web-Based Information, Misinformation, Disinformation, and Reinformation on COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Protocol for a Multicomponent Study

Eve Dubé   ¹ , PhD ;   Shannon E MacDonald   ² , RN, PhD ;   Terra Manca   ² , PhD ;   Julie A Bettinger   ³ , PhD ;   S Michelle Driedger   ⁴ , PhD ;   Janice Graham   ⁵ , PhD ;   Devon Greyson   ⁶ , PhD ;   Noni E MacDonald   ⁵ , MSc, MD ;   Samantha Meyer   ⁷ , PhD ;   Geneviève Roch   ⁸ , RN, PhD ;   Maryline Vivion   ⁹ , PhD ;   Laura Aylsworth   ² , PhD ;   Holly O Witteman   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Félix Gélinas-Gascon   ¹¹ , MSc ;   Lucas Marques Sathler Guimaraes   ¹¹ , MSc ;   Hina Hakim   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Dominique Gagnon   ¹² , MSc ;   Benoît Béchard   ¹³ , MA ;   Julie A Gramaccia   ¹³ , PhD ;   Richard Khoury   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Sébastien Tremblay   ¹³ , PhD

¹ Department of Anthropology, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada

² Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

³ Vaccine Evaluation Center, BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁴ Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

⁶ School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

⁷ School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁸ Faculty of Nursing, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada

⁹ Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada

¹⁰ Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada

¹¹ Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada

¹² Department of Biohazard, Quebec National Institute of Public Health, Quebec, QC, Canada

¹³ School of Psychology, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada