We employed a qualitative research design in this study. Three main sessions of Focus Group Discussions (FGD) of purposively selected 8 students who had not taken the COVID-19 vaccine were conducted. The FGDs were audio-recorded and transcribed into readable transcripts. The transcripts were read and re-read to gain familiarity with and insight into the data as well as identify emerging codes and categories. From a deductive position, a codebook was developed with cues from the research questions and analyzed using NVivo software. 