Global Health Literacy Summit 2021
03 - 05 October 2021
Virtual

Abstract

Title
Assessing COVID-19 Vaccine Literacy and Demographic Factors
Type
Oral Presentation Only
Theme
Global Health Literacy Summit 2021
Topic
Health literacy and COVID-19

Authors

Main Author
Sri Handayani1
Presenting Author
Sri Handayani1
Co-Author
Eti Rimawati1
Eko Hartini2
Lenci Aryani2
Ririn Nurmandhani1
Dian Puspitaningtyas1

Authors' Institution

Department / Institution / Country
Public health / Universitas Dian Nuswantoro / Indonesia1
Environmental Health / Universitas Dian Nuswantoro / Indonesia2
Content
Abstract Content (abstracts should be written in Size 11 font, Arial font style)

Background: The Vaccine COVID-19 infodemic can lead the misunderstanding about the vaccine in community, and increase the unacceptance rate of the program. This study aims to investigate the correlation between demographic factors and COVID-19 vaccine literacy.

Method: A cross-sectional survey through online survey was conducted among 252 respondents. Functional, communicative, critical health literacy, age, gender, and level of education was measured. The vaccine health literacy was used questionnaire by HLVa-IT English version - Health Literacy about Vaccination in adulthood in Italian. The rank spearman test was used to measure the correlation of demographic factors and COVID-19 Vaccine HL.

Result: Education has a positive significant correlation with functional HL (p: 0,001; r: 0,55), Critical HL (p: 0,045; r: 0,16), and overall COVID-19 vaccine HL (p: 0,028; r: 0,174). Age has a positive significant correlation with communicative Hl (p:0,014; r: 0,193), Critical HL (p: 0,042; r: 0,161), and overall COVID-19 vaccine HL (p: 0,002; r: 0,239). While gender has no correlation with HL.

Conclusion: Assessing vaccine health literacy is important which can be useful to adapt medical communication strategies, for a better understanding of the value of immunization especially for this pandemic.

 

Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccine Literacy; Demographic Factors
Requires Audio or Video system for Presentation?: No