COVID-19 vaccine attitude, vaccine literacy, and religious attitudes: a cross-sectional study in Turkiye.

BACKGROUND

The relationship between COVID-19 vaccine attitude and vaccine literacy and religious attitude has been shown in studies. The purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between COVID-19 vaccine attitude, vaccine literacy and religious attitudes and the factors affecting vaccine attitudes.

METHODS

This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with 830 individuals over 18 years of age in Diyarbakır and Kahramanmaraş provinces of Turkiye. The "Personal Information Form", "Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Vaccine Scale", "COVID-19 Vaccine Literacy Scale" and "OK-Religious Attitude Scale" were used to collect the study data. Mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, number and percentage, Pearson Correlation and Stepwise Multiple Linear Regression Analysis were used in the analysis of the data.

RESULTS

In the study, religious attitude was not associated with COVID-19 vaccine literacy and COVID-19 vaccine attitude. It was determined that having three and more doses of the vaccine and communicative/critical VLS increased the positive attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccine (p < 0.05). 17.3% of the positive attitude-dependent variable toward the COVID-19 vaccine was explained together with these predictors. The place of residence in Kahramanmaraş and using continuous drugs increased the negative attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccine and having 2 doses of vaccination and being married decreased it (p < 0.05). 19.9% of the negative attitude-dependent variable towards the COVID-19 vaccine was explained together with these predictors.

CONCLUSIONS

From the results obtained, it was concluded that the religious attitude of individuals was not related to COVID-19 vaccine literacy and vaccine attitudes, and that COVID-19 vaccine literacy predicted vaccine attitude.