The Study of Perspectives of Knowledge, Attitudes, Perceived Benefits, Risks, and Acceptance of the Covid-19 Vaccine
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The Covid-19 disease is a primary global concern, and the vaccine is one of the most effective ways to prevent the virus infections. This study aimed to investigate the respondents’ knowledge, attitudes, perceived benefits, risks, and acceptance of Covid-19 vaccines and the correlation of those variables—the research design those variables. The research was designed by using the quantitative research method. The online questionnaires were distributed to 374 respondents by snowball sampling. The results revealed the mean scores of the respondents’ knowledge of vaccines at 4.50, the positive attitudes toward vaccines at 4.47, the perceived benefits of vaccines at 3.94, the risks of vaccines at 2.88, and vaccine acceptance at 4.06. Hypotheses testing presented that there was a positive relationship between variables: knowledge and attitudes with 0.463, knowledge and perceived benefits of vaccines with 0.519, knowledge and vaccine acceptance with 0.563, attitudes toward perceived benefits of vaccines with 0.351, attitudes toward vaccine acceptance with 0.408, perceived benefits of vaccine and vaccine acceptance with 0.503. However, two negative relationships illustrate knowledge and risks, and vaccine acceptance.
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