The Relationship Between Fear Of Injection, Vaccine Attitude, and Vaccine Hesitance: A Study On The Turkish Vaccine "Turkovac"

This study aims to examine the relationship between blood-injection-injury phobia, attitudes towards COVID-19 Turkovac vaccine and hesitation regarding Turkovac vaccine. The study is a cross-sectional study conducted in the population. The research population consists of patients who applied to a family medicine clinic in the city center of Sakarya and their family members over the age of 18. The research data was collected from 574 participants through a face-to-face survey technique. IBM SPSS and AMOS programmes were used to analyse the data. The conclusions of the showed that the majority of participants had a low fear of injections and their attitudes and hesitancy towards the Turkovac vaccine was partially high. Furthermore, the empirical results of the study indicated that there was a strong positive correlation between attitudes towards Turkovac and hesitancy towards Turkovac vaccine, and a low negative correlation between injection fear and attitudes and hesitancy towards Turcovac vaccine.