Determination of the factors affecting covid-19 vaccine acceptance among the university students of Centro Escolar University-Manila

Abstract

The disease outbreak, Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), occurred in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and later spread throughout the world. As a result, community quarantines were implemented and school systems have undergone transition as mandated by the government. While the facts about the vaccines have expanded significantly across different demographics, there’s still a significant amount of hesitancy among younger groups, and even more so due to conflicting views of the importance of vaccines and vaccination equity in general [1]. The researchers conducted this study to examine why there is hesitancy regarding Covid vaccines. The researcher chose respondents from Centro Escolar University-Manila campus because (a) they have first-hand knowledge of the resources and (b) they are still within the younger group of individuals who would give positive feedback on vaccine utilization. This survey seeks to determine if CEU-Manila students accept, support, or oppose the required distribution of vaccines, particularly since that face-to-face classis are being trialed in several regions, indicating that this may also occur in medical schools in Metro Manila. In addition, the outcome of this study could be beneficial to (a) Professional Health Workers and (b) Local Government and National Health Agency.

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“…Bellon (2021) revealed the existence of COVID-19 hesitancy among healthcare workers anchored on the fear of potential side effects and philosophical or religious beliefs that prohibit vaccination aside from medical contraindications to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Capis et al (2022) found no significant difference in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance between medical and non-medical students. The authors attributed the acceptance by medical students to their knowledge of clinical trials about the process involved in medicine production.…”