Knowledge and perceptions of the acceptance of the vaccine for SARS - COV-2 in residents of the Peruvian highlands

ABSTRACT

The general objective of this research was to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and perceptions of acceptance of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in residents of the Peruvian highlands. The type of study corresponds to the quantitative approach, it was a non-experimental cross-sectional design of descriptive correlational type, probabilistic test, simple casual type, the sample consisted of 384 residents between 18-59 years of age. The instruments used were the KNOW-P-COVID-19 and VAC-COVID-19 scales prepared by Mejia. The results showed that 63.8% have high knowledge and 36.2% have low knowledge about COVID-19, in addition, they reveal that 70.6% of the population would not be vaccinated and 29.4% of the population would be vaccinated, according to their perception, in terms of Pearson's correlation it is shown that there is a significantly inverse correlation (bilateral sig. is = 0.000<0.05). In conclusion, at a significance level of 5%, there is a direct and significant connection, that is, the greater the knowledge about COVID-19, the greater the perception of acceptance of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in residents. from the Peruvian highlands.