The Relationship Between COVID-19 Awareness and Vaccine Hesitancy among University Students
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Doç. Dr. Handan EREN
Yalova Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale |
| Makale Alt Türü | ESCI dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale |
| Dergi Adı | Journal of Basic and Clinical Health Sciences |
| Dergi ISSN | 2458-8938 Wos Dergi |
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | ESCI |
| Makale Dili | İngilizce |
| Basım Tarihi | 05-2022 |
| Cilt No | 6 |
| Sayı | 2 |
| Sayfalar | 550 / 559 |
| DOI Numarası | 10.30621/jbachs.1066123 |
| Makale Linki | https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jbachs/issue/70055/1066123 |
| Özet |
| Purpose: The following research was conducted in an effort to determine the factors affecting the COVID- 19 awareness and vaccine hesitancy among university students. Material and Methods: Data was collected from 700 university students between October 2021 and January 2022 through the snowball sampling method for the purposed of this cross-sectional study. A questionnaire form, COVID-19 Awareness Scale and Vaccine Hesitancy Scale in Pandemics were all utilized for the collection of necessary data. The dependent variables of the study were the COVID-19 awareness and vaccine hesitancy. The independent variables of the study were sex, department, education level, socioeconomic level, and COVID-19-related questions. It is used number, mean, percentile distributions, standard deviation, One-Way ANOVA, independent t-test, and the Pearson correlation analysis to evaluate the data. Results: The participants achieved 89.2±16.2 points on the COVID-19 awareness scale and 23.3±9.6 points on the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale in Pandemics. The scales mean scores differed according to sex, department, education, and socieconomic level, having COVID-19 vaccine (p<0.05). A moderately negative correlational relationship was found between the total mean score of the COVID-19 Awareness Scale and the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale in Pandemics total score (r=-0.496, p<0.001). Conclusion: University students' COVID-19 awareness was very high, and vaccine hesitancy was below the average. The results of this study determined that as student awareness of COVID-19 increases, hesitations about vaccination decrease. Therefore, it is necessary to organize educational activities that contain reliable information about COVID-19 for students. |
| Anahtar Kelimeler |
| university student | Awareness of COVID-19 | vaccine in pandemic |
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