Evaluation of attitudes and thoughts towards the COVID-19 vaccine and fear of contracting the disease

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study is to estimate the acceptance level of the COVID-19 vaccine, to evaluate the attitudes and thoughts towards the vaccine, and to evaluate the fear of contracting the disease before a COVID-19 vaccine that has completed the clinical stages and has been released to the market is applied. Method: The sample of the study included 155 volunteer patients who met the research criteria between October and December 2020. In order to obtain the data, a questionnaire prepared by the researchers in line with the literature and the Covid-19 Fear Scale were used. The statistical significance level was taken as p