Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy (VH) And Vaccine Refusal (VR): Its' Correlation Factors and an Educational Intervention Programme

Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to over 200 countries worldwide and is still on the rise in 88 countries. Unfortunately, Malaysia is not the exception and registered 340,642 COVID-19 cases till 29 March 2021 since the outbreak of the pandemic.

COVID-19 virus can be transmitted from an infected person to others through droplets when coughing or sneezing as well as by touching objects infected with the virus. Although precautionary measures, which include the regular and mandatory use of face masks, reducing crowds, and physical distancing, have been widely encouraged by WHO and the Malaysian government, getting COVID-19 vaccination remain the way forward to curb the wide spread of the virus and to return to the normal.

However, the public awareness on the importance of getting vaccinated is still low with high level of vaccination hesitance and refusal. In Malaysia, this challenge is compounded further due to a lack of COVID-19 vaccination educational intervention programme in Bahasa Malaysia to educate the predominantly larger group in the population who are more conversant in ther national language. In order to improve the acceptance rate towards the COVID-19 vaccination in Malaysia, it is imperative to design a comprehensive intervention program that will increase the awareness and knowledge with regards to the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine as a solution in overcoming this pandemic.

With this in mind, this study aims to identify the correlational factors of COVID-19 and develop an educational intervention programme on COVID-19 vaccination and thereafter, assess the effectiveness of this educational intervention programme.

Conditions

• COVID-19 Vaccination

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy (VH) And Vaccine Refusal (VR): An Educational Intervention Programme

Participants will be receiving the pamphlet about the COVID-19 vaccination information during the intervention. They will received 3 different sets of questionnaire to measured their level of vaccine hesitancy and vaccine refusal in 3 different time points: (a) before intervention, (b) after the intervention, and (c) 3 months after the intervention. Data cleansing will be conducted based on the per-protocol analysis. Pre-protocol is a comparison of treatment groups that includes only those patients who completed the treatment originally allocated.

BEHAVIORAL

Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy (VH) And Vaccine Refusal (VR): An Educational Intervention Programme

Participants will be receiving the webinar last for half an hour about the COVID-19 vaccination information during the intervention. They will received 3 different sets of questionnaire to measured their level of vaccine hesitancy and vaccine refusal in 3 different time points: (a) before intervention, (b) after the intervention, and (c) 3 months after the intervention. Data cleansing will be conducted based on the per-protocol analysis. Pre-protocol is a comparison of treatment groups that includes only those patients who completed the treatment originally allocated.

BEHAVIORAL

Reducing Vaccine Hesitancy (VH) And Vaccine Refusal (VR): An Educational Intervention Programme

Participants will be receiving the SMS about the COVID-19 vaccination information during the intervention. They will received 3 different sets of questionnaire to measured their level of vaccine hesitancy and vaccine refusal in 3 different time points: (a) before intervention, (b) after the intervention, and (c) 3 months after the intervention. Data cleansing will be conducted based on the per-protocol analysis. Pre-protocol is a comparison of treatment groups that includes only those patients who completed the treatment originally allocated.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Sunway University

  lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-09-01

Primary Completion

2022-12-31

Completion

2023-01-31

Countries

• Malaysia

Study Locations