Original article
Year : 2023 | Volume : 8 | Issue : 1 | Page : 18-22
Survey on Awareness of COVID-19 Vaccination for General Population Residing in Pondicherry
Yasir Malik, Shivashankar Kengadaran, Divvi Anusha
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, SBV, Puducherry, India
Address for Correspondence:
Dr. Shivashankar Kengadaran
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, SBV, Puducherry, India.
E-mail: shiva.freee@gmail.com
Abstract
Introduction:
Government of India has selected the priority groups who will be vaccinated on priority as they are at higher risk. The first group includes health-care workers because they are at high risk of contracting the infection and protecting them helps sustain essential health services. The vaccination of frontline workers will help in reducing the societal and economic impact by reducing COVID-19 mortalities. The next group to receive COVID-19 vaccine will be persons over 50 years of age and persons under 50 years with comorbid conditions because there is high mortality in this category. Therefore, the aim of the study is to assess the awareness of COVID-19 vaccination for general population residing in Pondicherry.
Materials and Methods:
A questionnaire was prepared and sent using Google Forms through e-mail and WhatsApp and the participants were asked to submit the response. A total of 135 responses were received. Data were entered in Microsoft Excel sheet and then subjected to data analysis using SPSS software version 23. Descriptive statistics were expressed by means of frequency and percentage.
Results:
About 80% of the participants were aware of the COVID-19 symptoms. 91.7% of the participants were very much aware that COVID 19 is a viral disease. Majority of them answered that COVID-19 vaccination may help them to defend infectious disease condition. 66.4% of them reported that vaccination could cause you adverse effect and 52.2% felt that only vaccination could help us from COVID-19 virus. Only 46.3% of the participants were willing to get vaccinated.
Conclusion:
The present study shows that there is lack of appropriate awareness on COVID 19 vaccination among general population. People in Pondicherry are fear of adverse effect that causes by vaccination.
Financial support and sponsorship
Nil.
Conflicts of interest
There are no conflicts of interest.
How to cite this article :Yasir Malik, Kengadaran, S., & Anusha, D. (2023). Survey on Awareness of COVID-19 Vaccination for General Population Residing in Pondicherry : Original article. International Journal of Social Rehabilitation, 8(1), 18–22. https://doi.org/10.56501/intjsocrehab.v8i1.789
