Construction and Evaluation of psychometric properties of vaccine attitude scale and its relationship with health anxiety

According to research findings, universal vaccination is the way to fight the Covid-19 epidemic. However, many people in the community are reluctant to get vaccinated. The present study was designed to make and validate the vaccine attitude scale and its relationship with health anxiety.

The present study was a descriptive correlational study design performed on 320 Tehran residents through online calling. Data were analyzed using Cronbach's alpha and exploratory factor analysis using 24Spss-software.

The results of exploratory factor analysis indicated the existence of 5 factors as Social responsibility, Confidence, Constraints, Calculation and Risk-taking, which explain 60.9% of the total variance. Also, the reliability coefficient of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha indicates the optimal reliability for all reasons (α = 0.871), social responsibility factors (α = 0.832), Confidence factor (α = 0.697), Constraints factor (α =861/86), the profit and loss factor (α = 0.687) and the risk factor (α = 0.593). Standard scores were calculated, and the range of factor scores and the whole questionnaire was divided into medium, weak and strong domains based on standard scores.

The present study showed that the tools required for adequacy design are necessary and can be used in future researches, and this control is sufficient to measure this structure in Iranian samples of reliability and validity.The present study showed that the designed tool is adequate and can be used in future research and this scale has sufficient reliability and validity to measure this structure in Iranian samples.