Predictors of COVID-19 Stress and COVID-19 Vaccination Acceptance among Adolescents in Ghana

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to ravage world economies, and with its recent mutations, countries worldwide are finding ways of ramping up their vaccination programmes. This cross-sectional design study, therefore, examined the predictors of COVID-19 stress and COVID-19 vaccination a...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 19; no. 13; p. 7871
Main Authors Adjaottor, Emma Sethina, Addo, Frimpong-Manso, Ahorsu, Florence Aninniwaa, Chen, Hsin-Pao, Ahorsu, Daniel Kwasi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 27.06.2022
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Subjects
Adolescents
Contamination
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccines
Fear
Immunization
Infections
Mutation
Prevention
Stress
Students
Vaccination
Viral diseases
Ghana
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Summary:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to ravage world economies, and with its recent mutations, countries worldwide are finding ways of ramping up their vaccination programmes. This cross-sectional design study, therefore, examined the predictors of COVID-19 stress and COVID-19 vaccination acceptance among adolescents in Ghana. A total of 817 participants were conveniently selected to respond to measures on fear of COVID-19, perceived stigma from COVID-19, self-stigma from COVID-19, believing COVID-19 information, COVID-19 infection prevention behaviours, COVID-19 stress, and COVID-19 vaccination acceptance. It was found that females believed COVID-19 information and accepted COVID-19 vaccination more than males did. Moreover, there were significant relationships between the majority of the COVID-19-related variables. Furthermore, fear of COVID-19, self-stigma from COVID-19, and COVID-19 infection prevention behaviours were found to be significant predictors of COVID-19 stress. Additionally, believing COVID-19 information, danger and contamination fears (a subscale of COVID-19 stress), and traumatic stress (a subscale of COVID-19 stress) were significant predictors of COVID-19 vaccination acceptance. These findings imply that different factors influence different COVID-19 variable. Therefore, careful considerations and research should be employed by health authorities and policymakers in preparing COVID-19 information to target different age groups and for different COVID-19 purposes.
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These authors contributed equally to this work.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph19137871