Factors Affecting the Decision-Making Process for Vaccination Against COVID-19

Abstract

This research has the purpose for 1) to study the decision-making process for selection in against COVID-19 2) to study the interrelation between personal factor and decision-making process for selection in vaccination against COVID-19 3) to study factors vaccination affecting the decision-making process for selection in vaccination against COVID-19. This research is the quantitative research and collecting data 400 sample population who are Thais age more than 18 years or older, living in Thailand. This research also uses questionnaire and data analysis by frequency, percent, mean standard deviation, t-test and F-test.

This study found that 1) the majority of sample population has high level of decision-making process COVID-19 vaccination in term of vaccination perception, risk acceptance, decision-making and alternative consideration with respectively 2) the gender, age, education, occupation and monthly average revenue have “no effect” for difference in decision-making for selecting COVID-19 vaccination. 3) the motivation factor for disease prevention is perception in disease severity in terms of perceiving the risk of disease, expectations in effectiveness and attitude factors towards vaccines. The hypothesis found that attitude and effectiveness in COVID-19 affects decision-making process for vaccination.