Relationship between knowledge and attitude of workers about the vaccine against COVID-19 of the Provincial Hospital of Acobamba, 2021

Abstract

The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between the knowledge and attitude of workers about the vaccine against COVID-19 of the Provincial Hospital of Acobamba, 2021; is a field study, cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative-qualitative and non-experimental design that used, as data collection instruments, a Questionnaire and a Scale with an internal reliability (- Cronbach) of 0.90 and 0.97, respectively. Likewise, the Spearman Rho test was used to determine the relationship between knowledge and attitude with a level of statistical significance (p <0.05); regarding the results, it was obtained that of a total of 101 workers, the average age was 39.07 (± 10.82) years, 66.3% were women, 56.4% were single, 35.6% indicated that they had two children, 67.3% said they had no antecedent COVID-19; 89.1% were healthcare personnel, 45.5% worked a morning / afternoon shift, 52.5% worked more than five years ago and 79.2% worked 12 hours or more. 76.2% reported high knowledge and 50.5% indicated acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine. It was determined that knowledge and attitude regarding the COVID-19 vaccine are not related, concluding that the level of knowledge about the COVID-19 vaccine of the workers of the Acobamba Provincial Hospital is not related to the type of attitude.