Reconnoitering COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance Among Rural Residents: A Convergent Parallel Approach

Edu Lavega

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Reconnoitering COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance Among Rural Residents: A Convergent Parallel Approach

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Edu Lavega

J PHR Met, 2023, 1 (1), 16-17, doi: , ISSN

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Vaccination is largely recognized as the only treatment for preventing and responding to natural disasters when it comes to pandemics. Every country has already been through a catastrophe, such as the present COVID-19 outbreak in many countries and because of this the world is currently experiencing a novel infectious disease. This study aimed to understand the reasons of rural residents towards the COVID-19 vaccines in order to further understand their views on the vaccines in response to COVID-19. The researchers of this study used the convergent parallel approach. For qualitative phase researchers used thematic analysis. Study shows that there are four major themes results that shows why rural residents are hesitant to administer vaccination these are; personal reasons, beliefs, government tactics and negative perception of others. For the quantitative stage, the data obtained are treated with the statistician's help using the following formula: Pearson-r and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Structural Equation Model (SEM). Using the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), 4 factors are generated namely; Efficacious and Control, Motivations and Sources, Accessibility, Gender Influence, and Confidence, and Positivity. In this study, the consolidated qualitative and quantitative data are of divergent nature, as the qualitative phase focuses on vaccine hesitancy among rural residents, whereas the quantitative phase investigates vaccine acceptance. In conclusion, this study contributes to a better understanding of the population perspective required to design COVID-19 vaccine programs among rural residents.

Keywords: vaccination, rural residents, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine acceptance, covid-19,

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Edu Lavega (2023). Reconnoitering COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance Among Rural Residents: A Convergent Parallel Approach, Journal of Public Health Research and Metrics, 1(1): 16-17

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            @article{edu_lavega2023jphrm,

                author       = {Edu Lavega},

                title        = {Reconnoitering COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance Among Rural Residents: A Convergent Parallel Approach},

                journal      = {Journal of Public Health Research and Metrics},

                year         = {2023},

                volume       = {1},

                number       = {1},

                pages        = {16-17},

                doi          = {},

                url          = {https://scimatic.org/show_manuscript/927}

              }

APA Citation

Lavega, E., (2023). Reconnoitering COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Acceptance Among Rural Residents: A Convergent Parallel Approach. Journal of Public Health Research and Metrics, 1(1), 16-17. https://doi.org/