Journal of Vaccines & Vaccination

Department of Public Health, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, Antalya, Turkey

Biography

Saliha Ozpinar is currently working as a Professor in the Department of  Public Health. His research interests include  Public Health, Vaccine. Saliha Ozpinar is serving as an editorial member and reviewer of several international reputed journals. Saliha Ozpinar has successfully completed his Administrative responsibilities. Saliha Ozpinar has authored many research articles/books related to Medicine.

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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