Attitude of Health Care Workers towards COVID-19 Vaccination in Port Harcourt Metropolis, Rivers State
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This study was examined the attitude of COVID-19 vaccination among health care workers in Port Harcourt metropolis, Rivers State. A cross sectional design was adopted to explain the attitude and acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine with the 830 health care workers. The sample size was 515 health care workers which was 62% of the population of the study. A multi-stage sampling procedure was adopted for the study which were in three stages. The instrument for data collection was self-structured questionnaire designed by the researcher titled Attitude towards COVID19 Vaccine Questionnaire (ACOVID-19VQ). Person Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) was used to test the reliability co-efficient of 0.84 was obtained used for the study. Data collected from this study were coded and analysed using Statistical Products Service Solution version 25.0. The result showed that the grand mean = 1.97 is greater than the criterion mean of 1.50 indicating that respondents had positive attitude towards Covid-19 vaccination. The finding of the study showed that there is significant difference between gender (p<0.05) and attitude towards COVID-19 vaccination among health care workers in Port Harcourt metropolis, Rivers State. The finding of the study showed that there was significant difference between training (p<0.05) and attitude towards COVID-19 vaccination among health care workers in Port Harcourt metropolis, Rivers State. The finding of the study showed that there was significant difference between availability of Covid-19 vaccine (p<0.05) and attitude towards COVID-19 vaccination among health care workers in Port Harcourt metropolis, Rivers State. It was concluded that health care workers had positive attitude of COVID-19 vaccine so as to reduce the contraction among workers. It was recommended among others that government should organize training and workshop programmes for health care workers especially during disease pandemic like coronavirus disease.
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