The Behavioral Intention and Influencing Factors of Medical Staff toward COVID-19 Vaccinations

Kuan-Chieh Tseng; Chao-Chien Chen; Jen-Min Huang; Tong-Hsien Chow; Chin-Hsien Hsu

doi:10.3390/healthcare10040628

The Behavioral Intention and Influencing Factors of Medical Staff toward COVID-19 Vaccinations

Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Mar 27;10(4):628. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10040628.

Authors

Kuan-Chieh Tseng¹, Chao-Chien Chen², Jen-Min Huang³, Tong-Hsien Chow⁴, Chin-Hsien Hsu⁵

Affiliations

¹ MA Program in Social Enterprise and Cultural Innovation Studies, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Providence University, Taichung 41170, Taiwan.
² Department of Leisure and Recreation Management, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan.
³ Department of Physical Education, National Pingtung University, Pingtung 90003, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Leisure Sport and Health Management, St. John's University, New Taipei 25135, Taiwan.
⁵ Department of Leisure Industry Management, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung 41170, Taiwan.

Abstract

This study mainly explored the behavioral intention and influencing factors of medical staff toward COVID-19 vaccinations. Medical staff were taken as the research subjects. This study selected 300 research subjects by the intentional sampling method and conducted a questionnaire survey. A total of 260 questionnaires were recovered (a recovery rate of 86%), and the number of valid questionnaires was 212, for an effective questionnaire rate of 81%. SPSS and AMOS were used for statistical analysis. As known from the research results: (1) medical staffs' perception of COVID-19 vaccinations had a positive and significant impact on their behavioral intention for receiving COVID-19 vaccinations; (2) medical staffs' perception of COVID-19 vaccinations had a negative and significant impact on the barriers to receiving COVID-19 vaccinations; (3) medical staffs' motivation of receiving COVID-19 vaccinations had a positive and significant positive effect on their behavioral intention of receiving COVID-19 vaccinations; and (4) medical staffs' motivation of receiving COVID-19 vaccinations had a positive and significant impact on the barrier to receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.

Keywords: COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccine; barrier; behavioral intention; vaccinations.