QUEZON CITY UNIVERSITY

COVID-19 VACCINE: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE

PARTICIPATION RATE OF 3RD YEAR I.T STUDENTS IN QUEZON CITY
UNIVERSITY, A.Y. 2020-2021

A Project Proposal
Presented to
The Department of Information Technology
QUEZON CITY UNIVERSITY

In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Abadiano, Jerome
Arroyo, Don Davis
Bangles, Christine Joy
Dela Cruz, Jayme
Dimnang, Khalid
Esguerra, Adoniram
Fonseca, Jeremiah
Lomibao, Maryjoy
Narciso, Marvin
Quinto, Francis Albert
Ridon, Aiza Mae

May 2021
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Theoretical Perspective

This study is supported by the theory of The Health Benefit Model by

Campion, V. and Skinner C. (2008). In this theory, a model was developed to
provide an explanation to the behavior of the people regard to the uptake of
health services. According to Carpenter, C.J. (2010), “Health Belief Model (HBM),
the people's specific beliefs, namely perceived severity and susceptibility of the
disease and the perceived benefits and risks of the vaccine, relate to health
behaviors.”
The perceived severity in the HBM refers to the belief of outcome from
getting the disease are serious for the self and others. According to Betsch et al.,
(2015), “individuals that feel threatened to the high levels of risk of a disease are
more likely to express higher levels of intentions to vaccinate against the specific
disease.” The perceived susceptibility refers to the subjective evaluation of
chance of getting a disease. The vaccine hesitancy will be present at this part it is
assessed in research according to Neumann-Böhme et al., (2020), “people believe
they would be at risk of getting infected with the COVID-19 when they would
take the new vaccine.” The perceived benefits refers to the efficacy of the
COVID-19 vaccine. Individuals will uptake a COVID-19 vaccine in order to
reduce the risk of attaining the disease. The last part will be the perceived
barriers, those are behaviors changing due to difficulties related to psychosocial,
physical, or financial factors. Melas, C. and Zampetakis, L. (2021) stated,
“perceiving barriers is related to lower intentions to vaccinate against COVID-
19.”
This theory is relevant to the study on analyzing the participation rate of the
IT students in Quezon City University as it was appropriate for understanding
vaccination behavior. The outcome of the study corresponds to the behavior of
the participants regards to the uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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References

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Betsch, C., Böhm, R., & Chapman, G.B. (2015). Using behavioral insights to
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2372732215600716
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