MIDDLE-HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE COVID-19 VACCINE WITH THE COVID-19 VACCINATION COVERAGE

• DOI: 10.18051/jbiomedkes.2022.v5.102-108
• Publication Date: 2022-09-02T04:19:45Z
• Authors: Michael Josia; Tubagus Ferdi Fad...
• Keywords: Cross-sectional study; Coronavirus

BACKGROUND Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious caused by the newly discovered Coronavirus, namely SARS-CoV-2 virus. Daily cases of COVID-19 increased rapidly up to 500% from May 15 Jun 17, 2021, especially in Banten province; there were 53,472 cases, which 10.4% children aged 6-18 years, causing emergency prevent spread COVID-19. One efforts can be through vaccination. Therefore, this study assessed students' attitudes towards vaccine, evaluated data on vaccinations students, and relationship between student vaccine vaccination students. METHODS This used a cross-sectional design with population students Santa Patricia Junior High School sample size 90 participants using cluster sampling technique simple random then analyzed exact-fisher test. RESULTSThe results prove that most prominent characteristic aspects are female gender (64.4%), Age below or equal years (57.8%), having received (86.7%), positive attitude (85.5%), was influenced other people around him (97.8%) wanted vaccinate against (86.7%). Students' had p=0.324. CONCLUSION The analysis did not show significant coverage (p=0.324; p>0.05). KEYWORDS: Vaccine, Vaccination, School, Pandemic, Theory Planned Behavior