The Relation between the factors of motivations to COVID-19 prevention and access to vaccination service among elderly people

Abstract

The aimed of this survey research was to study the relation between between the factors of motivations to COVID-19 prevention and access to vaccination service among elderly people. The target population was 196 people who provided COVID-19 vaccines service at Bang-Sue during 1-30 September 2021 collected data by questionnaires by the use of descriptive and chi-square for analyzing data.

The motivation consequences for vaccination explain that the average of acknowledgement COVID-19 severity was 3.42, the average vaccine prospect was 2.88 and the average self-protection ability from COVID-19 was 3.33 which were medium level. The identification of risk prone to COVID-19 infection is 4.30 which is high level.

Motivation for defending COVID-19 is associated with the assessing to vaccination with statistic significantly (X² = 9.002, p-value=0.004) The suggestion to encourage motivation in term of vaccination in elderly people must promote self-awareness together with advising COVID-19 information constantly by family-member, companion and medical team.