Journal of Vaccines & Vaccination

Department of Midwifery, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey

Biography

Nurcan Celik Odabasi is currently working as a Professor in theDepartment of Midwifery. Nurcan Celik Odabasi  has authored of many research articles/books related to Medicine. Nurcan Celik Odabasi  is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals.

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Vaccine Attitude Scale: Psychometric Properties and Validation
  Author(s): Saliha Ozpınar*, Emre Dunder and Nurcan Celik Odabasi
  
  In this study, it was aimed to develop a vaccine attitude scale. This scale has the potential to aid in the advancement of research and immunization policy. We carried out exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to discover the uncovered dimensions and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to validate the obtained structures in vaccine attitude scale. Also, we checked the reliabilities with Cronbach Alpha coefficients for each factor. The results revealed that the vaccine attitude scale can be represented with three factors such as the benefits, acceptance and hesitation of the vaccine. We observed positive relationship between benefits-acceptance and an acceptance-hesitation factor but there is negative relationship between benefits-hesitation in vaccine attitude scale. The dimension of the vaccine attitude scale was found reliable and valid as the results of the statistical analysis. This im.. View more»
  

  DOI: 10.35248/2157-7560.20.11.426

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