Assessment of the knowledge, attitude, and willingness to take future vaccination of North Matrix Ville I residents in Caloocan City / Daphne Millen O. Arenas, Jan Kristoffer S. Avestruz, Prince Oliver Maxeem D. Chua, Jonah S. De Villeres, Andrea Clarisse B. Jose and Jesusa Beathrese P. Prado.

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Abstract: With the development of vaccines, serious and life-threatening diseases have been prevented. However, vaccine hesitancy has been rampant among the Filipinos who impede the protection against vaccine-preventable diseases. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and willingness of North Matrix Ville I. residents to take future vaccinations. A cross-sectional analytical research design was conducted. Data were collected via convenience sampling using a self-administered researchers-made structured survey. For this research, there were 301 respondents, among these, 188 (62.5%) were female and 113 (37.5%) were male, 34.2% falls between the ages of 25 to 40 years old. Overall, majority of the respondents has a sufficient knowledge about vaccines. Both the attitude (x2=3.42, p=0.61) and willingness (x2=3.23, p=0.79) towards vaccinations resulted in a neutral state, which implied undecidedness on getting vaccinated. In addition, there was a significant association of their age, occupation, educational attainment, and monthly income to some variables of knowledge, age to their attitude and educational attainment to their willingness. Mostly, there was weak negative correlation between the variables of knowledge to their willingness, and lastly there is a moderate positive correlation between their attitude and willingness (p=0.000). Hence, understanding the general public's view on vaccines and vaccination would yield in the acceptance of future vaccinations of the Filipinos. The findings of this study provided a basis for improvement on public education and vaccine promotion for health authorities to prioritize.

Thesis - School of Pharmacy