Comparison of knowledge, perception and willingness to receive covid-19 vaccines among tertiary students in Osun State, Nigeria

IF 0.8 4区医学 Q3 MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL

African Health Sciences Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI:10.4314/ahs.v23i3.51

Wale Adeyemi Johnson, Dauda Parakoyi Bayo

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Abstract

Background: Vaccination remains a potent way to curb the present covid-19 global pandemic. Objectives: To assess knowledge, perception and willingness to receive covid-19 vaccines among tertiary students in Nigeria. Methods: In the descriptive cross-sectional study, a sample size of 750 respondents was randomly selected from a university, polytechnic and college of education (COE) in Osun State, Nigeria. Independent sample T and Pearson correlation tests were used to analyse the responses. Results: There was a significant increase in the percentage score of poor perception, relative to good perception among the university and polytechnic respondents. Among the COE respondents, significant increases in the percentage scores of poor knowledge, perception and willingness to receive covid-19 vaccines, relative to the good variables were observed. Weak positive correlations between knowledge and willingness & perception and willingness to receive covid-19 vaccines among all the respondents were noted. In addition, there was a significant increase in good perception to covid-19 vaccines among university and COE, relative to polytechnic respondents. Asides, a significant increase in good willingness to receive covid-19 vaccines was observed among the university, compared to COE respondents. Conclusion: There is poor knowledge, perception and willingness to receive covid-19 vaccines among tertiary students in Osun State, Nigeria. Keywords: Covid-19 vaccines; knowledge; perception; tertiary students; willingness.

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尼日利亚奥松州大学生接种covid-19疫苗的知识、认知和意愿比较

背景:疫苗接种仍然是遏制当前covid-19全球大流行的有效途径。目的:评估尼日利亚大学生对covid-19疫苗接种的知识、认知和意愿。方法:在描述性横断面研究中，从尼日利亚奥松州的一所大学、理工学院和教育学院(COE)随机抽取750名受访者。采用独立样本T检验和Pearson相关检验对调查结果进行分析。结果:在大学和理工学院的受访者中，相对于良好的认知，认知差的百分比得分显著增加。在COE受访者中，相对于良好变量，观察到对covid-19疫苗的不良知识、认知和意愿的百分比得分显着增加。知识与意愿的弱正相关注意到所有受访者对COVID-19疫苗的认知和意愿。此外，相对于理工学院的受访者，大学和COE对covid-19疫苗的良好认知显著增加。此外，与COE受访者相比，在大学中观察到接受covid-19疫苗的良好意愿显着增加。结论:尼日利亚Osun州的大学生对covid-19疫苗的知识、认知和意愿都很差。关键词:新型冠状病毒疫苗;知识;知觉;大专学生;的意愿。

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African Health Sciences MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL-

CiteScore

2.30

自引率

0.00%

发文量

179

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： The African Health Sciences is an internationally refereed journal publishing original articles on research, clinical practice, public health, policy, planning, implementation and evaluation, in the health and related sciences relevant to Africa and the tropics. Its objectives are to: Advocate for and promote the growth of reading culture in sub Saharan Africa; Provide a high quality journal in which health and policy and other researchers and practitioners in the region can and world wide, can publish their work; Promote relevant health system research and publication in the region including alternative means of health care financing, the burden of and solution of health problems in marginalized urban and rural communities amongst the displaced and others affected by conflict; Promote research and the systematic collection and collation and publication of data on diseases and conditions of equity and influence; Promote development of evidence-based policies and guidelines for clinical, public health and other practitioners. African Health Sciences acknowledges support provided by the African Health Journals Partnership Project that is funded by the US National Institutes of Health (through the National Library of Medicine and the Fogarty International Center) and facilitated by the Council of Science Editors.