Assessment of COVID-19 vaccine take-up and its predictors among healthcare professionals in public hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Facility-based cross-sectional study

Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are among the highly exposed groups for the COVID-19 pandemic and have been identified as the target population to get vaccination against the spread of the infection. Aimed to assess COVID-19 vaccine take-up and its predictors among HCPs in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021. A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 403 randomly selected participants from October 1st to November 30, 2021. Data was entered into Epi-info version 7 and analyzed using SPSS version 25. An AOR along with a 95% confidence level was estimated, and a P value <.05 was considered to declare the statistical significance. About 71% of the participants had taken any of the COVID-19 vaccines at least once. Being married (AOR: 10.79; 95% CI: 1.32–18.05); educational status of MSc degree (AOR = 7.7; CI: 2.08–15.1.6), medical doctors/GP (AOR = 5.88; CI: 1.60–15.54), MD with MSc (AOR = 9.63; CI: 2.17–17.76), PHD (AOR = 13.33; CI: 1.23–24.21) and specialist and above 3 (AOR = 3.45; CI: 2.34–42.8) holder HCPs; perceived severity of COVID-19 infection as moderate (AOR = 0.23; CI: 0.08–0.65) and mild (AOR = 0.28; CI: 0.11–0.74) and poor knowledge toward COVID-19 vaccination (AOR = 0.03; CI: 0.01–0.12) were statistically associated. This study showed that COVID-19 vaccine take-up among HCPs was relatively low to achieve herd immunity. Participants’ marital status, educational status, perception of the severity of COVID-19 infection, and level of knowledge toward COVID-19 vaccines were the predictors of the COVID-19 vaccine take-up.