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Awareness, Attitude, and Acceptability of Healthcare Workers About COVID-19 Vaccination in Western India
Introduction In the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) are at the frontline around the world and categorized as a priority group for COVID-19 vaccines. Our study aimed to find out the COVID-19 vaccine awareness, attitude, and acceptance in HCWs in western India....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556728/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34729277 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18400 |
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author | Dara, Sanjeeta Sharma, Suresh K Kumar, Ashok Goel, Akhil D Jain, Vidhi Sharma, Mukesh C Gupta, Manoj K Saurabh, Suman Bhardwaj, Pankaj Misra, Sanjeev |
author_facet | Dara, Sanjeeta Sharma, Suresh K Kumar, Ashok Goel, Akhil D Jain, Vidhi Sharma, Mukesh C Gupta, Manoj K Saurabh, Suman Bhardwaj, Pankaj Misra, Sanjeev |
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description | Introduction In the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) are at the frontline around the world and categorized as a priority group for COVID-19 vaccines. Our study aimed to find out the COVID-19 vaccine awareness, attitude, and acceptance in HCWs in western India. Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out between January 14 and January 28, 2021, at a tertiary care hospital located in western India. Data were collected anonymously using Google Forms. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the sociodemographic variables. The knowledge and attitude of HCWs were analyzed using mean and SD. Multivariate analysis was done to find out the association between participants’ attitudes with demographic characteristics. Results Of the total health care workers, 498 answered the survey. The mean age of participants was 29.8 years (SD 6.4), and 354 (71.1%) were male. Among the respondents, 445 (89.4%) would accept a COVID-19 vaccine when available. Four-hundred seventy-six (476) HCWs (95.6%) had excellent knowledge regarding COVID-19 and COVID-19-appropriate behavior. The majority of the subjects (399) had a neutral attitude toward COVID-19 vaccination. Health care professionals (doctors and nurses) had higher acceptance for vaccination against COVID-19 than non-professionals. Conclusions The higher rates of COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and the excellent knowledge among HCWs will directly enhance the level and acceptability of vaccine among the general population and will definitely help in reducing the mortality and morbidity related to COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-85567282021-11-01 Awareness, Attitude, and Acceptability of Healthcare Workers About COVID-19 Vaccination in Western India Dara, Sanjeeta Sharma, Suresh K Kumar, Ashok Goel, Akhil D Jain, Vidhi Sharma, Mukesh C Gupta, Manoj K Saurabh, Suman Bhardwaj, Pankaj Misra, Sanjeev Cureus Family/General Practice Introduction In the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare workers (HCWs) are at the frontline around the world and categorized as a priority group for COVID-19 vaccines. Our study aimed to find out the COVID-19 vaccine awareness, attitude, and acceptance in HCWs in western India. Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out between January 14 and January 28, 2021, at a tertiary care hospital located in western India. Data were collected anonymously using Google Forms. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the sociodemographic variables. The knowledge and attitude of HCWs were analyzed using mean and SD. Multivariate analysis was done to find out the association between participants’ attitudes with demographic characteristics. Results Of the total health care workers, 498 answered the survey. The mean age of participants was 29.8 years (SD 6.4), and 354 (71.1%) were male. Among the respondents, 445 (89.4%) would accept a COVID-19 vaccine when available. Four-hundred seventy-six (476) HCWs (95.6%) had excellent knowledge regarding COVID-19 and COVID-19-appropriate behavior. The majority of the subjects (399) had a neutral attitude toward COVID-19 vaccination. Health care professionals (doctors and nurses) had higher acceptance for vaccination against COVID-19 than non-professionals. Conclusions The higher rates of COVID-19 vaccine acceptability and the excellent knowledge among HCWs will directly enhance the level and acceptability of vaccine among the general population and will definitely help in reducing the mortality and morbidity related to COVID-19. Cureus 2021-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8556728/ /pubmed/34729277 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18400 Text en Copyright © 2021, Dara et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Family/General Practice Dara, Sanjeeta Sharma, Suresh K Kumar, Ashok Goel, Akhil D Jain, Vidhi Sharma, Mukesh C Gupta, Manoj K Saurabh, Suman Bhardwaj, Pankaj Misra, Sanjeev Awareness, Attitude, and Acceptability of Healthcare Workers About COVID-19 Vaccination in Western India |
title | Awareness, Attitude, and Acceptability of Healthcare Workers About COVID-19 Vaccination in Western India |
title_full | Awareness, Attitude, and Acceptability of Healthcare Workers About COVID-19 Vaccination in Western India |
title_fullStr | Awareness, Attitude, and Acceptability of Healthcare Workers About COVID-19 Vaccination in Western India |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness, Attitude, and Acceptability of Healthcare Workers About COVID-19 Vaccination in Western India |
title_short | Awareness, Attitude, and Acceptability of Healthcare Workers About COVID-19 Vaccination in Western India |
title_sort | awareness, attitude, and acceptability of healthcare workers about covid-19 vaccination in western india |
topic | Family/General Practice |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8556728/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34729277 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18400 |
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