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Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its determinants among Lebanese dentists: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Dentists are at high risk of exposure to occupational Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since vaccination is crucial to control COVID-19 pandemic, we aimed to assess COVID-19 vaccination acceptance and its determinants among Lebanese practicing dentists. METHODS: A cross-sectional onl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8479009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34587930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-021-01831-6 |
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author | Nasr, Lara Saleh, Nadine Hleyhel, Mira El-Outa, Abbass Noujeim, Ziad |
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description | BACKGROUND: Dentists are at high risk of exposure to occupational Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since vaccination is crucial to control COVID-19 pandemic, we aimed to assess COVID-19 vaccination acceptance and its determinants among Lebanese practicing dentists. METHODS: A cross-sectional online study was conducted between February 15 and 22, 2021, among dentists practicing in Lebanon. Prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was estimated. A multivariable modified Poisson regression model was used to explore determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. RESULTS: In total, 86% of participants were willing to receive or have already received a COVID-19 vaccine. Having received the influenza vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic was linked to a 12% increase in the COVID-19 vaccination acceptance rate. In addition, participants having moderate and high COVID-19 vaccination knowledge levels were more likely to accept receiving the vaccine, and participants whose fear of COVID-19 level was high were more likely to accept receiving the vaccine compared to those having a low fear level. Contrarily, those who visit the medical doctor only when needed and once a year were less likely to accept COVID-19 vaccine compared to participants who routinely visit the medical doctor. CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed a high level of acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among Lebanese practicing dentists. And since knowledge about COVID-19 vaccination was associated with the vaccine acceptance, it should be improved and updated to further increase the acceptance rate. High acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination among dentists is expected to have a positive impact among the population in terms of increasing awareness and vaccine uptake. |
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spelling | pubmed-84790092021-09-29 Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its determinants among Lebanese dentists: a cross-sectional study Nasr, Lara Saleh, Nadine Hleyhel, Mira El-Outa, Abbass Noujeim, Ziad BMC Oral Health Research BACKGROUND: Dentists are at high risk of exposure to occupational Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since vaccination is crucial to control COVID-19 pandemic, we aimed to assess COVID-19 vaccination acceptance and its determinants among Lebanese practicing dentists. METHODS: A cross-sectional online study was conducted between February 15 and 22, 2021, among dentists practicing in Lebanon. Prevalence of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance was estimated. A multivariable modified Poisson regression model was used to explore determinants of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. RESULTS: In total, 86% of participants were willing to receive or have already received a COVID-19 vaccine. Having received the influenza vaccine during the COVID-19 pandemic was linked to a 12% increase in the COVID-19 vaccination acceptance rate. In addition, participants having moderate and high COVID-19 vaccination knowledge levels were more likely to accept receiving the vaccine, and participants whose fear of COVID-19 level was high were more likely to accept receiving the vaccine compared to those having a low fear level. Contrarily, those who visit the medical doctor only when needed and once a year were less likely to accept COVID-19 vaccine compared to participants who routinely visit the medical doctor. CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed a high level of acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination among Lebanese practicing dentists. And since knowledge about COVID-19 vaccination was associated with the vaccine acceptance, it should be improved and updated to further increase the acceptance rate. High acceptability of COVID-19 vaccination among dentists is expected to have a positive impact among the population in terms of increasing awareness and vaccine uptake. BioMed Central 2021-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8479009/ /pubmed/34587930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-021-01831-6 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 Nasr, Lara Saleh, Nadine Hleyhel, Mira El-Outa, Abbass Noujeim, Ziad Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its determinants among Lebanese dentists: a cross-sectional study |
title | Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its determinants among Lebanese dentists: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its determinants among Lebanese dentists: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its determinants among Lebanese dentists: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its determinants among Lebanese dentists: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Acceptance of COVID-19 vaccination and its determinants among Lebanese dentists: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | acceptance of covid-19 vaccination and its determinants among lebanese dentists: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8479009/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34587930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12903-021-01831-6 |
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