Factors Influencing the Decision of Nakhon Pathom High School Students to Receive COVID-19 Vaccination
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Factors, Decision, Vaccination, Coronavirus disease 2019Abstract
The objectives of this research were to 1) to study the factors affecting the decision on receiving the COVID-19 vaccination, 2) to compare the decision on receiving the COVID-19 vaccination classified by personal factors and 3) to study the relationship of factors affecting the decision on receiving the COVID-19 vaccination among students in a school in Nakhon Pathom Province. The samples used in the research were 120 secondary students in a school in Nakhon Pathom Province, aged 18 years and over. The data were collected from questionnaires that had a reliability of 0.91 and were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way analysis of variance, chi-square test and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. The results showed that 1) Factors affecting vaccine service decisions include disease prevention and transmission behavior, number of family members and behavioral factors for preventing and transmitting COVID-19. 2) Students with more than five family members had a higher level of decision-making for vaccine services than those with a few family members. And 3) Personal factors in the number of family members and behavioral factors preventing and transmitting COVID-19 significantly affects the decision to receive COVID-19 vaccine with a statistically significant at .05.
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