Nursing students’ attitudes, knowledge, and willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine: A cross-sectional study

Abstract

Aim: To investigate nursing students' konwledge, attitudes and willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, and the influencing factors. Background: Vaccination is one of the effective measures to prevent COVID-19, but the vaccination acceptance varies across countries and populations. As reserve nurses, nursing students have both the professionalism of medical personnel and the special characteristics of school students, their attitudes, knowledge, and willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine may greatly affect the vaccine acceptance of the population now and in the future. But little research has been done on vaccine acceptance among nursing students. Design: A cross-sectional survey of nursing students was conducted via online questionnaires in March 2021. Methods: Descriptive statistics, independent sample t tests/one-way ANOVA (normal distribution), Mann-Whitney U tests/Kruskal-Wallis H tests (skewness distribution) and multivariate linear regression were performed. Results: The score rate of attitude, knowledge and vaccination willingness were 70.07%, 80.70% and 84.38% respectively. Attitude was significantly influenced by family economic conditions and whether a family member had been vaccinated. The main factors influencing knowledge were gender, grade and academic background. In terms of willingness, gender, academic background, visits to risk areas, whether family members were vaccinated, and whether they had side effects were significant influencing factors. Conclusions: The vaccine acceptance of nursing students was fair. Greater focus needed to be placed on the males, those of younger age, with a science background, and having low grades, as well as on students whose family members had not received the COVID-19 vaccine or had side effects from the vaccine. Targeted intervention strategies were recommended to improve vaccination rates.

Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Nursing Students on COVID–19 In North Cotabato

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Cross-Sectional Study of University students’ attitudes to ‘on campus’ delivery of COVID-19 vaccines and future-proofing MenACWY and MMR vaccination rates by adopting COVID-19 vaccine roll-out strategies

“…Studies of student populations have yielded a range of findings. Factors associated with higher vaccine acceptance are knowledge of COVID-19 vaccines, trust in authorities and high perceived vaccine effectiveness [9][10][11][12][13][14] while perceived accessibility barriers (physical or financial) have been associated with vaccine hesitancy [10,14].…”