Assessment Of Covid-19 Vaccination Literacy And Post Vaccination Effects Among Vaccinated Population: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey Study

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

A safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 has become a public health priority. However only a few studies have been conducted to investigate the post vaccination symptoms and awareness among the public about the vaccination. This study aimed to assess the COVID-19 vaccination literacy and post vaccination effects among the vaccinated population in India.

METHODOLOGY:

A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenience sample of the adult population in India. Data was collected through an online anonymous questionnaire.  We used Google forms an online survey platform, to publish the questionnaire and manually generated the answer URL link to the eligible candidates.

RESULTS:

A total of 533 responses were collected. Among the participants, 463 (86.90%) were aged between 18 and 40 years old. Of which 289 (54.2%) were male and 244 (45.8%) were female participants. Among the respondents 374 (70.2%) completed both the doses of vaccine. 498 (93.4%) participants took the vaccination willingly and 35 (6.6%) participants were forced to get vaccinated. Body ache 327 (61.4%), Fever 307 (57.6%), headache 211 (39.6%) and alopecia 70 (14%) were the most commonly reported post vaccination symptoms.

CONCLUSION:

Overall, our study demonstrated that there was a high willingness to accept COVID-19 vaccine in India and the rate of infection with COVID-19 has been reduced after vaccination which proves that the vaccine is efficient. The rate of people getting hospitalized due COVID-19 has been drastically reduced. Cold, cough, mild hypersensitivity reactions were also been reported as post vaccination symptoms and no serious adverse effects were reported so far due to vaccination which proves that the vaccine is safe.