Open AccessPublic Perceptions Towards Vaccination in Indonesia: National Online Survey
Author(s) -
Denara Eka Safitri,
Ressy Felisa Raini
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
community medicine and education journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2774-2962
DOI - 10.37275/cmej.v1i1.100
Subject(s) - vaccination , likert scale , medicine , perception , statistic , public health , cross sectional study , environmental health , psychology , immunology , statistics , nursing , developmental psychology , mathematics , pathology , neuroscience
Vaccination is one of the essential prevention towards vaccine-preventable diseases. Nationally, vaccination coverage continued to increase but the coverage gap in some areas in Indonesia stands particularly due to the negative perceptions of vaccination that affect to the arising outbreaks of certain diseases. The purpose of this study was to identify how the perceptions of Indonesian society aged ≥18 years using Likert scale towards the importance of vaccination and the sources of information about vaccines. This study is an online cross-sectional survey using google form with 2050 respondents. Datas were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistic 22 program descriptively and analytically with Pearson chi-square test. The results of the study showed that 1184 respondents (57.8%) received information sources on vaccines from health workers, overall respondents believed (86.4%) of vaccinations and the factors which are related significantly to vaccination perception were age, gender, education, income, , and work with p value <0.05.