Abstract
Author(s): Neha Gulia, and Radhay Shyam
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019 identified and declared Covid-19 as pandemic. During the course of disease, more than 27 million people are infected, approximately 800,000 people died and cases were found in more than 200 countries. During this time, the only solution to control the spread of the infection was found to be the effective COVID-19 Vaccination. But, over the time it was found that few group of rural people are not in the position to intake the vaccination and becoming a hurdle in course of complete immunization coverage. In this study these fears and groups in which this type of fear is most are studied and few recommendations are made to address these issue and complete the immunization. Aim, Objective and Methodology: The aim of the study was to determine the fear of COVID-19 immunization among in rural population. For this purpose, a sample of 111 participants were taken and a well-structured pre-tested questionnaire was floated among them via Google form to collect the data in a randomly selected group of population including males and females. Later on this collected data was analyzed by using Microsoft excel and results were obtained. For the research purpose this study has been granted the ethical clearance from the district ethical committee. Results: The results were obtained from the given set of data and showed the relationship between fear and the gender, religion, type of vaccine and type of fear.
