Attitudes of Pregnant Women toward the COVID-19 Vaccine

• Published in: Sakarya üniversitesi holistik sağlık dergisi Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 269 - 288
• Main Authors: Tiryaki, Öznur, Zengin, Hamide, Akdeniz Kudubeş, Aslı, Aksoy, Emin Levent, Bostancı, Mehmet Sühha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sakarya University 31.08.2023
• Subjects: attitude; covid-19 aşısı; covid-19 vaccine; gebe; hesitancy; pregnant; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; tereddüt; tutum
• ISSN: 2687-6078; 2687-6078
• DOI: 10.54803/sauhsd.1234064

Objective: It was carried out to determine the attitudes of pregnant women toward the Covid-19 vaccine and related factors. Methods: The correlational and descriptive study was conducted with 356 pregnant women. In the study, data were collected using an introductory questionnaire, "Attitudes towards Covid-19 Vaccine Scale", "Vaccination Hesitancy in Pandemics Scale", and "Covid-19 Vaccine Literacy Scale". Research data were analyzed with SPSS 25 package program. One-way ANOVA and Student-t test were used to determine the difference between the descriptive characteristics of the pregnant women participating in the study and the total and sub-dimension mean scores of the Attitude Scale towards the Covid-19 Vaccine. Pearson correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale in Pandemics, the Covid-19 Vaccine Literacy Scale, and the Attitudes Towards Covid-19 Vaccine Scale. Linear regression analysis was used to determine the factors affecting the Attitudes of Pregnants towards the Covid-19 Vaccine. Results: It was concluded that 37.4% of the pregnant women did not have any Covid-19 vaccine, 62.6% had the Covid-19 vaccine before pregnancy, and 22.5% had the vaccine during pregnancy. In pregnant women, those who have hesitations about the vaccine in cases such as working, increase in education level, fear of contracting Covid-19 before birth, having pre-pregnancy Covid-19 vaccine, thinking that pregnant women may have Covid-19 vaccine, getting Covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy, etc. increase their attitudes towards vaccination. Conclusion: Consider to change the conclusion: It was found that quite a few pregnant women received the Covid-19 vaccine during their pregnancy. Pregnant women's vaccination hesitancy influences their attitudes toward Covid-19.