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- Title
Students' Views of Childhood Vaccine Refusal and its Relationship to Health Literacy Levels: A Cross-Sectional Study.
- Authors
İNCEDAL SONKAYA, Zehra; DAŞ GEÇİM, Gözde Yıldız
- Abstract
Objective: Vaccination is an important and effective preventive public health practice in protecting and improving the health of children and adults, preventing the spread of communicable diseases, reducing poverty, and strengthening health systems. The current study examines university students' views of childhood vaccine refusal and its relationship to health literacy levels. Material and Methods: The research was done in cross-sectional and correlational type. The study was conducted with 1,588 university students. The data were collected face-to-face using the socio-demographic questionnaire form prepared by the researchers and the Türkiye Health Literacy Scale (THLS-32). Results: The participants' mean THLS-32 score was 35.57±8.02. While 25% of female students had excellent and 37.4% sufficient health literacy levels, it was 20.6% and 32.3%, respectively for male students. The rate of participants stating that childhood vaccine refusal will adversely affect public health was 51.4%. According to 43.1% of the students, childhood vaccine refusal in society is related to negative information and 39.4% think it is because of side effects. In the study, the health literacy score of those who thought that vaccines had a protective effect on human health was found to be higher. Conclusion: In the research, it was determined that the average health literacy scores of the students were higher than the general average of Türkiye. Health literacy levels should be increased to create healthy generations through students -as parents of the future- and to minimize the effects of such negative thoughts.
- Subjects
VACCINATION of children; HEALTH literacy; PUBLIC health; POVERTY; DATA analysis
- Publication
Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Health Sciences / Türkiye Klinikleri Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi, 2024, Vol 9, Issue 1, p52
- ISSN
2536-4391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5336/healthsci.2023-97144