Adaptation of attitudes towards to vaccine scale to Turkish, investigation of validity and reliability

Abstract

Objective: This study was designed to adapt the Turkish version of the Attitudes Towards Vaccine Scale, which was developed to determine the social attitudes towards vaccination, and to make its validity and reli-ability in Turkish. Material and Methods: Data were collected from 208 health profes-sionals (41.6%) and 292 (58.4%) parents, including physicians, nurses, lab technicians, dietitians, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists (n= 500). Results: When the corrected item correlation values of the scale were ex-amined, it was seen that all items were above 0.30 and all of these items were suitable for factor analysis evaluation. The factors of the scale items were determined according to Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO= 0.856) criterion and Bartlett sphericity test (χ2= 2671.831; p< 0.001). According to explor-atory factor analysis results, two components explained 51.32% of the to-tal variance. In the study, Cronbach’s α value was found to be 0.853 for 14 items and the internal consistency value was found to be high. Tukey Non-additivity Analysis of Variance was used to determine whether the items were collectible and the items were collectable (F= 202.252; p< 0.001). Conclusion: The Turkish version of the Attitudes Towards Vaccine Scale consisted of 14 items with 2 factors. The scale is a valid and reliable tool in the Turkish language that can be used to determine social attitudes towards vaccination.