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ABSTRACT
Background: More than a year on from the emergence of COVID-19 in China in December 2019, it is expected that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to impose enormous burdens of morbidity and mortality while severely disrupting economies and reducing GDP worldwide. Acceptance of the newly developed COVID-19 vaccine by the general public particularly in colleges and universities where rate of transmission is high is important for normalcy to return to campuses. The aim of this study is to explore the perception and acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines among resident undergraduates of University of Benin, Edo state.
Method: The research is a descriptive one and a quantitative survey based approach was adopted using a 30 item questionnaire that was self structured and collected information on demographics, knowledge levels of COVID-19 and COVID19 vaccines, vaccine coverage and willingness to take the COVID19 vaccine. The questionnaires were administered in person to the respondents. Descriptive statistics on frequency distributions and percentage was used to analyze the responses. Data was analyzed using SPSS.
Results: There are 333 respondents of which 164 are males and 169 females. Knowledge levels are relatively high as indicated of almost 100% on COVID19 and 99.4% on their vaccines. Results also indicate low COVID19 vaccination coverage of 3.9% of which 44.3% of respondents indicates refusal to take the vaccine.
Conclusion: Low covid19 vaccination coverage with high refusal of respondents on acceptance of the vaccine. There is need to increase awareness on the covid19 vaccine as this will increase vaccination uptake and promote coverage in the university.
