Abstract
Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the fear of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) among nursing students and their attitudes towards vaccination during COVID-19 pandemic. Material and Methods: This study was designed as a descriptive and cross-sectional study and it was carried out between February 10 and February 20, 2021 with the voluntary participation of nursing students. The participants were reached via an electronic questionnaire form (i.e. Google Forms). The study data were collected with the 'Personal Information Form', 'The Fear of COVID-19 Scale' and 'Attitudes Towards the COVID-19 Vaccine Scale' designed by the researchers. The study data were analyzed with frequency test, mean test, Mann-Whitney U test and Spearman correlation analysis. Results: It was noted that 80.9% of the students were female and their average age is 22.07±1.21 years. The total mean score of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale was 23.14±3.30. It was further found that mean scores of the subscales of the Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Vaccine Scale were 3.09±1.21 in the positive attitude subdimension and 3.31±0.75 in the negative attitude subdimension. It was finally concluded that no statistically significant difference was found between the subdimensions of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale and the Attitudes Towards COVID-19 Vaccine Scale (p>0.05). Conclusion: It was suggested that nursing students had high levels of COVID-19 fear and their attitude towards the COVID-19 vaccine was moderate (uncertain).
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