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COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Prevalence and Predictors among the Students of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Using the Health Belief Model: A Cross-Sectional Study
Vaccination has a major role in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. The behavior toward accepting the COVID-19 vaccine is complex and multifactorial, while the level of acceptance and hesitancy depends on many factors. This study aims to measure the level of vaccine acceptance among Jazan Universi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8880072/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35214746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10020289 |
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author | Khalafalla, Husameldin Elsawi Tumambeng, Maria Zenaida Halawi, Majidah Hussain Asiri Masmali, Enas Mohammed Ali Tashari, Thekra Badr Mohammed Arishi, Fatimah Hasser Abdullah Shadad, Roaa Hassan Mohammed Alfaraj, Sarah Zaki Abdullah Fathi, Shroog Mohammed Ali Mahfouz, Mohamed Salih |
author_facet | Khalafalla, Husameldin Elsawi Tumambeng, Maria Zenaida Halawi, Majidah Hussain Asiri Masmali, Enas Mohammed Ali Tashari, Thekra Badr Mohammed Arishi, Fatimah Hasser Abdullah Shadad, Roaa Hassan Mohammed Alfaraj, Sarah Zaki Abdullah Fathi, Shroog Mohammed Ali Mahfouz, Mohamed Salih |
author_sort | Khalafalla, Husameldin Elsawi |
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description | Vaccination has a major role in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. The behavior toward accepting the COVID-19 vaccine is complex and multifactorial, while the level of acceptance and hesitancy depends on many factors. This study aims to measure the level of vaccine acceptance among Jazan University students and identify its predictors. In this cross-sectional study, an online questionnaire based on the health belief model (HBM) was sent through social media “WhatsApp” to two strata of students selected by convenient sampling. The overall desire to get vaccinated was noted in 83.6% of participants, and 16.4% reported no desire to be vaccinated. The constructs of the HBM were shown to significantly predict vaccine acceptance with the exception of “perceived susceptibility”. In conclusion, the level of acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine among Jazan University students was relatively high. The HBM constructs are important predictors of the vaccination behavior with the exception of the construct “perceived susceptibility”. |
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spelling | pubmed-88800722022-02-26 COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Prevalence and Predictors among the Students of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Using the Health Belief Model: A Cross-Sectional Study Khalafalla, Husameldin Elsawi Tumambeng, Maria Zenaida Halawi, Majidah Hussain Asiri Masmali, Enas Mohammed Ali Tashari, Thekra Badr Mohammed Arishi, Fatimah Hasser Abdullah Shadad, Roaa Hassan Mohammed Alfaraj, Sarah Zaki Abdullah Fathi, Shroog Mohammed Ali Mahfouz, Mohamed Salih Vaccines (Basel) Article Vaccination has a major role in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic. The behavior toward accepting the COVID-19 vaccine is complex and multifactorial, while the level of acceptance and hesitancy depends on many factors. This study aims to measure the level of vaccine acceptance among Jazan University students and identify its predictors. In this cross-sectional study, an online questionnaire based on the health belief model (HBM) was sent through social media “WhatsApp” to two strata of students selected by convenient sampling. The overall desire to get vaccinated was noted in 83.6% of participants, and 16.4% reported no desire to be vaccinated. The constructs of the HBM were shown to significantly predict vaccine acceptance with the exception of “perceived susceptibility”. In conclusion, the level of acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine among Jazan University students was relatively high. The HBM constructs are important predictors of the vaccination behavior with the exception of the construct “perceived susceptibility”. MDPI 2022-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8880072/ /pubmed/35214746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10020289 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Khalafalla, Husameldin Elsawi Tumambeng, Maria Zenaida Halawi, Majidah Hussain Asiri Masmali, Enas Mohammed Ali Tashari, Thekra Badr Mohammed Arishi, Fatimah Hasser Abdullah Shadad, Roaa Hassan Mohammed Alfaraj, Sarah Zaki Abdullah Fathi, Shroog Mohammed Ali Mahfouz, Mohamed Salih COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Prevalence and Predictors among the Students of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Using the Health Belief Model: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title | COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Prevalence and Predictors among the Students of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Using the Health Belief Model: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full | COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Prevalence and Predictors among the Students of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Using the Health Belief Model: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Prevalence and Predictors among the Students of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Using the Health Belief Model: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Prevalence and Predictors among the Students of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Using the Health Belief Model: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_short | COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Prevalence and Predictors among the Students of Jazan University, Saudi Arabia Using the Health Belief Model: A Cross-Sectional Study |
title_sort | covid-19 vaccine hesitancy prevalence and predictors among the students of jazan university, saudi arabia using the health belief model: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8880072/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35214746 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10020289 |
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