Factors Related to Manggarai’s Public Readiness on Acquiring Vaccination Against Covid-19

Abstract

Public's COVID-19 vaccination acceptance and readiness is a vital parameter of the COVID-19 eradication purpose because the vaccination hesitancy could hamper the long-term effect of COVID-19 pandemic management. The aim of this study is to identify the factors contributing to the Manggarai citizen readiness to be vaccinated against COVID-19. This study used cross sectional method to evaluate the factors related to Manggarai's public readiness of taking COVID-19 vaccination. This study was conducted to 199 respondents provided with online questionnaire in February 2021, the questionnaire including multiple variables such as vaccination readiness, lifestyle, knowledge, and social trust to health services and government. The study result showed that as much as 77.4% respondents ready to accept the vaccination, 20.6% were hesitate, and 2% were not ready to accept COVID-19 vaccine. The most significant factor for the readiness to get COVID-19 vaccine was social trust to government (P value: 0.002) and health services (P value: 0.003). The higher the social trust is, the public's acceptance and readiness of vaccination is also higher. This study showed that there were part of the public unwilling and not ready to get the vaccination against COVID-19 and primarily caused by the trust the health services and government. Thus, the health services agent driven by the government must comprehensively persuade the public and promote the importance of the vaccination to eradicate the COVID-19 pandemic.