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 Volume 9, Issue 11 (November 2022), Pages: 44-50

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 Original Research Paper

 COVID-19 vaccine attitude: A review on turkey

 Author(s): Gökten Öngel 1, Gözde Bozkurt 2, *, İsmail Erkan Çelik 3

 Affiliation(s):

 1Child Health and Diseases Department, Istanbul Education Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
 2Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey
 3Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Doğuş University, Istanbul, Turkey

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-1099

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.11.005

 Abstract:

The study investigates the anti-vaccine attitude and the attitude towards COVID-19 in Turkey. Within the scope of the study, an online questionnaire was applied to 564 volunteers with a convenience sampling technique between 21/05/2021 and 01/06/2021. Analysis was performed with descriptive and inferential statistical analysis techniques and a multiple probit model. As a result of the estimation, it has been determined that negative claims about the vaccine have an increasing effect on the probability of being vaccinated or undecided, according to the probability of being vaccinated. It has been seen that it has a reducing effect on their thoughts about making the vaccine compulsory. Opposition to the COVID-19 vaccine has become global, and people's behaviors endanger their health, public health, and global health due to the following unscientific theories that need to be further examined scientifically. In particular, awareness-raising activities for individuals, more efficient use of social media channels for communication, support of countries' academic studies on the subject, and transparent sharing of scientific data with the public will change the attitude toward vaccines. When we look at the literature, it has been seen that social media channels are neglected in the vaccination attitude. However, it was found to be an essential factor in line with the findings obtained from the study. For this reason, it is thought that it will contribute to future studies.

 © 2022 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, Anti-vaccination, Vaccine-refusal, Vaccine-hesitancy

 Article History: Received 1 May 2022, Received in revised form 26 July 2022, Accepted 26 July 2022

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Öngel G, Bozkurt G, and Çelik İE  (2022). COVID-19 vaccine attitude: A review on turkey. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(11): 44-50

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