Abstract

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The purpose of this study was to assess awareness as a determinant of the utilization of covid-19 vaccines among colleges of education academic staff in Northern States, Nigeria. To achieve the purpose of the study, one research question and hypothesis were formulated and tested for the study. The research design for this study was ex-post facto research design. The target population for this study comprised 4,947 academic staff of the twelve Colleges of Education in the Northern States of Nigeria. Therefore, the sample for this study consists of 650 academic staff which were selected among colleges of education academic staff in Northern States, Nigeria by using multi-stage sampling techniques. The instrument used for data collection was a researcher-developed closeended questionnaire titled “Assessment of the Determinants of COVID-19 vaccines among the academic staff of Colleges of Education in the Northern States of Nigeria which was validated by five experts in the Department of Human Kinetics and Health Education, Public Health and Nursing Science at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. Descriptive statistics of frequencies and percentages were used to describe the demographic information of the respondents; means and standard deviations to answer the research question, and inferential statistic of one-sample t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The study findings revealed that awareness is a significant determinant of COVID-19 vaccine utilisation among academic staff of Colleges of Education in Northern Nigeria (t=105.99, P=000). Based on the findings of the study it was concluded that; awareness was observed to determine the utilization of the COVID-19 vaccine among the academic staff of the College of Education in Northern States, Nigeria. It was therefore recommended that the government should provide more means of enlightenment about COVID-19- vaccines for the academic staff as well as the general public such as more posters, billboards, media houses, such as FM radios state and national televisions etc. to promote awareness.

Keywords: Awareness, Determinant, Utilization, Vaccination