A Research Instrument for Vaccine Information Seeking and Vaccine Hesitancy

Vaccine hesitancy has been a complex, dynamic yet interesting topic of discussion. Vaccine information seeking has been on to observe because it doesn’t just give us an insight as to why people sought vaccine information, it also helps to provide clarity as to what they may be looking for. Therefore, it will be interesting to conceptualize the phenomenon so that a measuring instrument can be created for researchers in this filed. The study made use of (n=100) respondents in the pilot testing of this instrument. The instrument was tested for reliability and validity using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25 for the Cronbach alpha and exploratory factor analysis (EFA)