Özet:

Objective: Despite great advances in vaccination against COVID-19, the uncertainty about the public acceptance of the vaccine can be a obstacle to vaccination. This study aimed at investigating the public’s perspective of the vaccine and the factors affecting this situation in the event that an effective vaccine against COVID-19 was introduced to use in Turkey. Methods: The survey was prepared in December 2020 with permission from the Ethics Board of the Istanbul Civilization University Göztepe Education and Research Hospital for study. It is applied online to people living in Turkey. The data was evaluated using the ki-core test in the IBM SPSS Statistics program. The survey was conducted with 1293 participants. 41.2 percent of participants were positive to get COVID-19 vaccine, while 37.9 percent were unstable. 75.9% of people who were asked about the cause of the vaccine and who were uncertain, said they were afraid of the side effects because it was a new vaccine, 34.4% said they did not trust the vaccine-producing companies, and 20.9% said they thought the vaccine could not protect against COVID-19. 47.7 percent (n=617) believed that COVID-19 was artificially produced in laboratory environments, and 45.9 percent believed that COVID-19 was a biological weapon (n=594). 64.3 percent said they would prefer domestic vaccine. There is a doubt against the COVID-19 vaccine in Turkey. In addition, the confidence in the domestic vaccine in the case of a possible vaccine preference is greater than in the case of the imported vaccine.

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