- Title
- The health belief model predicts intention to receive the covid-19 vaccine in Saudi Arabia : results from a cross-sectional survey
- Creator
- Mahmud, Ilias; Kabir, Russell; Rahman, Muhammad Aziz; Alradie-Mohamed, Angi; Vinnakota, Divya; Al-Mohaimeed, Abdulrahman
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/179069
- Identifier
- vital:15509
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9080864
- Identifier
- ISBN:2076-393X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- We examined the intention and predictors of accepting the COVID-19 vaccine in Saudi Arabia. We conducted a nation-wide, cross-sectional online survey between February and March 2021. A total of 1387 people (≥18 years) participated. Only 27.3% adults had a definite and 30.2% had a probable vaccination intent; 26.8% and 15.6% had a probable and definite negative vaccination intent. Older people (≥50 years) (p < 0.01), healthcare workers/professionals (p < 0.001), and those who received flu vaccine (p < 0.001) were more likely to have a positive intent. People from Riyadh were less likely to receive the vaccine (p < 0.05). Among the health belief model constructs, perceived susceptibility to and severity of COVID-19 (p < 0.001), and perceived benefit of the vaccine (p < 0.001) were positively associated with vaccination intent, whereas perceived barriers had a negative association (p < 0.001). Individuals were more likely to receive the vaccine after obtaining complete information (p < 0.001) and when the vaccine uptake would be more common amongst the public (p < 0.001). © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Relation
- Vaccines Vol. 9, no. 8 (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1107 Immunology; 1108 Medical Microbiology; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; COVID-19; Health belief model; SARS-CoV-2; Saudi Arabia; Vaccine hesitancy
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- The researchers would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research, Qassim University for funding the publication of this project.
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