Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy (VH) And Vaccine Refusal (VR): Its' Correlation Factors and an Educational Intervention Programme
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 600
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy
研究概览
简要总结
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to over 200 countries worldwide and is still on the rise in 88 countries. Unfortunately, Malaysia is not the exception and registered 340,642 COVID-19 cases till 29 March 2021 since the outbreak of the pandemic.
COVID-19 virus can be transmitted from an infected person to others through droplets when coughing or sneezing as well as by touching objects infected with the virus. Although precautionary measures, which include the regular and mandatory use of face masks, reducing crowds, and physical distancing, have been widely encouraged by WHO and the Malaysian government, getting COVID-19 vaccination remain the way forward to curb the wide spread of the virus and to return to the normal.
However, the public awareness on the importance of getting vaccinated is still low with high level of vaccination hesitance and refusal. In Malaysia, this challenge is compounded further due to a lack of COVID-19 vaccination educational intervention programme in Bahasa Malaysia to educate the predominantly larger group in the population who are more conversant in ther national language. In order to improve the acceptance rate towards the COVID-19 vaccination in Malaysia, it is imperative to design a comprehensive intervention program that will increase the awareness and knowledge with regards to the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine as a solution in overcoming this pandemic.
With this in mind, this study aims to identify the correlational factors of COVID-19 and develop an educational intervention programme on COVID-19 vaccination and thereafter, assess the effectiveness of this educational intervention programme.
详细描述
Research Objectives
- Examine the association among vaccination intention, attitudinal belief, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, vaccine hesitancy and its reasons among the Malaysian population.
- Develop an educational intervention Programme on COVID-19 vaccination to increase knowledge, positive attitudes, and acceptance toward COVID-19 vaccination
- Assess the effectiveness of the educational intervention programme
Research Hypothesis
The hypotheses are:
- The Ministry of Sciences and Technology (2021) reported that the percentage of Malaysians who voluntarily registered for the COVID-19 vaccine is still low. The researcher, therefore, hypothesize that the level of knowledge, positive attitudes, and acceptance towards the COVID-19 vaccine among Malaysian population to be rather low.
- The researcher hypothesize that there is an association among vaccination intention, attitudinal belief, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, vaccine hesitancy and its reasons among the Malaysian population
- The researcher hypothesize that the educational intervention programme has a statistically significant effect on reducing vaccination hesitancy and vaccination refusal between the baseline and the assessment soon after the program as well as at 3 months after the programme as compared to the control group)
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Individuals aged 18 years and above
- •Able to provide informed consent (verbal/written) to participate
- •Understand either Bahasa Malaysia
- •Participants who have not received their COVID-19 vaccination
- •Participants who have access to smart phone and/or mobile phone
- •Participants who have access to internet.
排除标准
- •Those who have had any prior history of psychological or neurological illness
结局指标
主要结局
Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy
时间窗: 17 months
The vaccine hesitancy scale
次要结局
- Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy(17 months)
研究者
Ooi Pei Boon
Principal Teaching Fellow
Sunway University