Abstract
The main purpose of this research is to determine the impact of people's preventive health behavior and trust in government performance during the pandemic on their trust in COVID-19 vaccine. The population of the research consisted of middle and advanced age group individuals who received service from pharmacies in the city center of Karabük. In the study, convenience sampling method was preferred due to the difficulty of reaching the participants during the COVID-19 pandemic process and 400 questionnaires were returned at the end of the data collection process. SPSS and AMOS package programs were used in the analysis of the data. Confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis techniques were applied to the data. The findings obtained by confirmatory factor analysis and path analysis showed that the construct validity of the model was ensured. According to the path analysis results, it was determined that the participants' protective health behavior (β=0.339; p<0.05) and their confidence in government performance (β=0.265; p<0.05) affected their confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine statistically and positively. During the pandemic, their COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and COVID-19 vaccine confidence increase as people engage in more and more accurate preventive health behavior and have confidence in government performance.
Highlights
Due to the spread of the virus, which was first seen in Wuhan, China in December 2019, defined as “Novel Coronavirus Disease/COVID-19” and caused a deadly disease, to Europe and America in a short time, it has been declared as a pandemic as of March 11, 2020 by World Health Organization
In a longitudinal study of 633 participants in Singapore during the January-April 2020 period, trust in government communication was found to be positively associated with the likelihood of adopting protective behavior [31]. It is important for the control of COVID-19 to understand the relationships between trust in government and government performance and the adoption of preventive health behaviors and trust in the COVID-19 vaccine, and to explore the various determinants of COVID-19 vaccine trust during the pandemic
The factors of people's display of protective health behavior during the pandemic, which constitute the variables of the research, were subjected to reliability analysis with five questions, the factors of trust in government performance with four questions, and the questions measuring the COVID-19 vaccine confidence levels of the participants with three items
Summary
Due to the spread of the virus, which was first seen in Wuhan, China in December 2019, defined as “Novel Coronavirus Disease/COVID-19” and caused a deadly disease, to Europe and America in a short time, it has been declared as a pandemic (global epidemic) as of March 11, 2020 by World Health Organization. During the COVID-19 outbreak, governments have taken a number of strong interventions to prevent and control the rate of spread of the epidemic, including city lockdowns, travel bans, quarantine, mask requirement and social distancing policies [3]. These measures have effectively slowed down the spread of the epidemic, but despite the measures taken, it is observed that COVID-19 is still increasing worldwide. As the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on many areas around the world, this has demonstrated how essential the need for policies to mitigate the spread of the epidemic is [5]
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