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. 2021 Dec 2;17(12):4857–4864. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2021.2004054

Table 3.

Attitude toward the vaccine

Acceptance of the vaccine
Item Frequency (%)
If COVID-19 vaccine is available, will you vaccinate your child?
Yes 371 (63.9%)
Do you want your child to be the first population to receive the COVID-19 vaccine?
Yes 231 (39.8%)
Will you vaccinate your child against influenza this year?
Yes 139 (23.9%)
Causes of action
I will only let my child take the COVID-19 vaccine if I was given adequate information about it 4.8% 11.0% 29.0% 34.3% 21.0%
I will only let my child take the COVID-19 vaccine if it was made mandatory 9.5% 21.9% 29.0% 29.9% 9.8%
I will only let my child take the COVID-19 vaccine if the vaccine is taken by many children in the public 8.1% 19.3% 32.9% 24.6% 15.1%
Perceived benefits
Vaccination would ease the precautionary measures including lock down, quarantine, work permit and travel ban 5.3% 9.6% 30.2% 30.5% 24.4%
Vaccination decreases my child chance of getting COVID-19 or its complication 5.5% 11.2% 28.8% 32.5% 22.0%
Complications of COVID-19 will be decrease significantly if my child received the vaccine. 6.7% 11.5% 30.0% 29.8% 22.0%
If my child take the vaccine that would make me less worried about catching COVID-19 7.9% 15.5% 28.1% 29.9% 18.6%