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Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination has raised concerns about vaccine hesitancy in general and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in particular. Understanding the factors driving the uncertainty regarding vaccination against COVID-19 is crucial. METHODS: This cross-sectional study wa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8341553/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34353279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06392-1 |
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author | El-Sokkary, Rehab H. El Seifi, Omnia S. Hassan, Hebatallah M. Mortada, Eman M. Hashem, Maiada K. Gadelrab, Mohamed Rabie Mohamed Ali Tash, Rehab M. Elsaid |
author_facet | El-Sokkary, Rehab H. El Seifi, Omnia S. Hassan, Hebatallah M. Mortada, Eman M. Hashem, Maiada K. Gadelrab, Mohamed Rabie Mohamed Ali Tash, Rehab M. Elsaid |
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description | BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination has raised concerns about vaccine hesitancy in general and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in particular. Understanding the factors driving the uncertainty regarding vaccination against COVID-19 is crucial. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was designed to identify the perceptions and attitudes of healthcare workers (HCWs) towards COVID-19 vaccines and determine the predictive factors that affect their willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. An online survey was distributed among HCWs to collect data assessing demographic and general characteristics of the participants and vaccine-related characteristics, including source of information about the vaccine. In addition to items assessing the perception of COVID-19, there were items on COVID-19 vaccines and attitude towards vaccination in general and towards COVID-19 vaccines in particular. RESULTS: The participants were classified according to their willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine as follows: hesitant (41.9%), refusing (32.1%), and willing (26%). Statistically significant differences were observed among the three groups for the perception of COVID-19 vaccines, attitude towards vaccination in general, and COVID-19 vaccines in particular (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Although the participants adequately perceived COVID-19 severity, prevention, and COVID-19 vaccine safety, they were widely hesitant or refused to be vaccinated. A multidimensional approach is required to increase the vaccine acceptability rate. Higher income and increased years of work experience are positive predictors of willingness to receive a vaccine. Thus, further studies addressing the scope of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy are warranted as an initial step to build trust in COVID-19 vaccination efforts with continuous monitoring of attitudes and practices of HCWs towards COVID-19 vaccines in the future. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12879-021-06392-1. |
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spelling | pubmed-83415532021-08-06 Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study El-Sokkary, Rehab H. El Seifi, Omnia S. Hassan, Hebatallah M. Mortada, Eman M. Hashem, Maiada K. Gadelrab, Mohamed Rabie Mohamed Ali Tash, Rehab M. Elsaid BMC Infect Dis Research BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination has raised concerns about vaccine hesitancy in general and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in particular. Understanding the factors driving the uncertainty regarding vaccination against COVID-19 is crucial. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was designed to identify the perceptions and attitudes of healthcare workers (HCWs) towards COVID-19 vaccines and determine the predictive factors that affect their willingness to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. An online survey was distributed among HCWs to collect data assessing demographic and general characteristics of the participants and vaccine-related characteristics, including source of information about the vaccine. In addition to items assessing the perception of COVID-19, there were items on COVID-19 vaccines and attitude towards vaccination in general and towards COVID-19 vaccines in particular. RESULTS: The participants were classified according to their willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine as follows: hesitant (41.9%), refusing (32.1%), and willing (26%). Statistically significant differences were observed among the three groups for the perception of COVID-19 vaccines, attitude towards vaccination in general, and COVID-19 vaccines in particular (p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Although the participants adequately perceived COVID-19 severity, prevention, and COVID-19 vaccine safety, they were widely hesitant or refused to be vaccinated. A multidimensional approach is required to increase the vaccine acceptability rate. Higher income and increased years of work experience are positive predictors of willingness to receive a vaccine. Thus, further studies addressing the scope of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy are warranted as an initial step to build trust in COVID-19 vaccination efforts with continuous monitoring of attitudes and practices of HCWs towards COVID-19 vaccines in the future. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12879-021-06392-1. BioMed Central 2021-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8341553/ /pubmed/34353279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06392-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research El-Sokkary, Rehab H. El Seifi, Omnia S. Hassan, Hebatallah M. Mortada, Eman M. Hashem, Maiada K. Gadelrab, Mohamed Rabie Mohamed Ali Tash, Rehab M. Elsaid Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study |
title | Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | predictors of covid-19 vaccine hesitancy among egyptian healthcare workers: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8341553/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34353279 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06392-1 |
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