Abstract

Objective: Vaccination is the ideal protocol to tackle pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 vaccination campaign has been going on recently in several parts of the world including India. The protective efficiency of currently administered vaccines are frequently experience outside of clinical trial condition because of short period of testing. Thus, the present study was designed to study the post vaccination side effects and opinions following COVID-19 vaccination in India. Methodology: The cross- sectional population based survey was conducted using Google form questionnaire. Results: Out of 959 respondents, 51% were males and 49% were females with majority of that were below 50 years of age (77.9%) and very few were above 50 years of age (22.1%). About half (52.5%) of the participants had high school or less education and majority participants (57.7%) were from rural area. While, 77.1% participants received Covishield vaccine, 22.4% participants had Covaxin. 4.5% participants with single dose, 85.5% participants with two doses of vaccine and 10% participants with booster dose of vaccine had been recorded. 67.95% of participants opined that vaccine is safe and effective. After COVID-19 vaccination common side effects recorded were injection site pain (77.6%), Fever (62%), headache (54.8%), bone and muscle pain (47.9%), swelling and redness at the site of injection (13.8%). However, sleep disturbance (30.9%), chest pain (8.3%) and shortness of breath (6.3%) were attention seeking post vaccination side effects also observed in the present study. Prevalance of side effects like nausea, diarrhoea, loss of appetite, fever, sore throat, depression, shortness of breath, chest pain and bleeding are significantly (p