Table 3.
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated discourse on vaccination on attitudes toward vaccines in the surveyed group (N = 805).
| Strengthened the Confidence in Vaccines | Weakened the Confidence in Vaccines | Had no Effect on the Attitude toward Vaccines |
p-Value | Cohen’s d | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | |||||
| Sex | |||||
| Female | 66 (15.4) | 113 (26.4) | 249 (58.2) | <0.001 | 0.329 |
| Male | 103 (27.2) | 92 (24.3) | 183 (48.4) | ||
| Age | |||||
| 18–24 | 11 (11.0) | 37 (37.0) | 52 (52.0) | <0.001 | 0.700 |
| 25–34 | 21 (13.8) | 50 (32.9) | 81 (53.3) | ||
| 35–49 | 32 (16.4) | 48 (24.6) | 115 (59.0) | ||
| 50–64 | 58 (25.1) | 52 (22.5) | 121 (52.4) | ||
| 65 and more | 48 (38.1) | 17 (13.5) | 61 (48.4) | ||
| Education | |||||
| Primary | 2 (6.9) | 7 (24.1) | 20 (69.0) | 0.042 | 0.173 |
| Vocational | 9 (15.5) | 9 (15.5) | 40 (69.0) | ||
| Secondary | 82 (20.0) | 113 (27.5) | 216 (52.6) | ||
| Tertiary | 75 (24.6) | 74 (24.3) | 156 (51.1) | ||
| Place of living | |||||
| Rural area | 57 (17.6) | 81 (25.1) | 185 (57.3) | 0.674 | 0.115 |
| City < 20 k | 20 (21.3) | 27 (28.7) | 47 (50.0) | ||
| City 20–99 k | 39 (25.3) | 36 (23.4) | 79 (51.3) | ||
| City 100–199 k | 15 (22.7) | 20 (30.3) | 31 (47.0) | ||
| City 200–499 k | 14 (19.4) | 16 (22.2) | 42 (58.3) | ||
| City > 500 k | 23 (24.2) | 24 (25.3) | 48 (50.5) | ||