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COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Beliefs and Barriers Associated with Vaccination Among the Residents of KSA

INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organization. Control of COVID-19 depends on the potential vaccine and its successful delivery to a large portion of the population to develop herd immunity. All the governments have made a robust plan to distribute the...

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Autores principales: Narapureddy, Bayapa Reddy, Muzammil, Khursheed, Alshahrani, Mohammad Yahya, Alkhathami, Ali G, Alsabaani, Abdullah, AlShahrani, Abdullah M, Dawria, Adam, Nasir, Nazim, Kalyan Viswanath Reddy, Lingala, Alam, Mohammad Mahtab
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8627889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34853514
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S340431
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author Narapureddy, Bayapa Reddy
Muzammil, Khursheed
Alshahrani, Mohammad Yahya
Alkhathami, Ali G
Alsabaani, Abdullah
AlShahrani, Abdullah M
Dawria, Adam
Nasir, Nazim
Kalyan Viswanath Reddy, Lingala
Alam, Mohammad Mahtab
author_facet Narapureddy, Bayapa Reddy
Muzammil, Khursheed
Alshahrani, Mohammad Yahya
Alkhathami, Ali G
Alsabaani, Abdullah
AlShahrani, Abdullah M
Dawria, Adam
Nasir, Nazim
Kalyan Viswanath Reddy, Lingala
Alam, Mohammad Mahtab
author_sort Narapureddy, Bayapa Reddy
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description INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organization. Control of COVID-19 depends on the potential vaccine and its successful delivery to a large portion of the population to develop herd immunity. All the governments have made a robust plan to distribute the vaccine to their people, but many countries could not achieve adequate vaccination coverage. Hence, this study explores people’s beliefs and barriers to vaccination and provides valuable inputs to the government to attain adequate vaccination. OBJECTIVE: To know the knowledge level about the COVID-19 vaccine among the residents of KSA. To find out the various concerns (beliefs) about COVID-19 and its vaccine among the residents of KSA. To estimate the vaccine acceptance and understand the barriers to accepting the COVID-19 vaccine among residents of KSA. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A web-based, cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2021 in a restricted environment on the adult (>18 years) residents of Saudi Arabia. The minimum calculated sample was 685; 796 study samples were finally studied to minimize the sampling error. Snowball sampling was used to select the study samples, after meeting the inclusion criteria. RESULTS: A total of 796 people responded. Only 782 (98.2%) were finally considered after excluding the incomplete information forms. The selected participant’s age ranges from 18 years to 80 years. Almost 723 (92%) of the study group knew COVID vaccines. Most of the participants, 370 (47%), preferred USA-manufactured vaccine followed by Saudi Arabia 217 (28%). A total of 259 (33.1%) participants were hesitant to receive the vaccine. Out of 782, half of the participants, 386 (50%), believed the COVID vaccine will prevent the infection. CONCLUSION: The government must implement appropriate culturally accepted interventional vaccination educational campaigns to remove the beliefs, worries regarding the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, to increase vaccine acceptance rates.
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spelling pubmed-86278892021-11-30 COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Beliefs and Barriers Associated with Vaccination Among the Residents of KSA Narapureddy, Bayapa Reddy Muzammil, Khursheed Alshahrani, Mohammad Yahya Alkhathami, Ali G Alsabaani, Abdullah AlShahrani, Abdullah M Dawria, Adam Nasir, Nazim Kalyan Viswanath Reddy, Lingala Alam, Mohammad Mahtab J Multidiscip Healthc Original Research INTRODUCTION: COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020 by the World Health Organization. Control of COVID-19 depends on the potential vaccine and its successful delivery to a large portion of the population to develop herd immunity. All the governments have made a robust plan to distribute the vaccine to their people, but many countries could not achieve adequate vaccination coverage. Hence, this study explores people’s beliefs and barriers to vaccination and provides valuable inputs to the government to attain adequate vaccination. OBJECTIVE: To know the knowledge level about the COVID-19 vaccine among the residents of KSA. To find out the various concerns (beliefs) about COVID-19 and its vaccine among the residents of KSA. To estimate the vaccine acceptance and understand the barriers to accepting the COVID-19 vaccine among residents of KSA. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A web-based, cross-sectional study was conducted from April to June 2021 in a restricted environment on the adult (>18 years) residents of Saudi Arabia. The minimum calculated sample was 685; 796 study samples were finally studied to minimize the sampling error. Snowball sampling was used to select the study samples, after meeting the inclusion criteria. RESULTS: A total of 796 people responded. Only 782 (98.2%) were finally considered after excluding the incomplete information forms. The selected participant’s age ranges from 18 years to 80 years. Almost 723 (92%) of the study group knew COVID vaccines. Most of the participants, 370 (47%), preferred USA-manufactured vaccine followed by Saudi Arabia 217 (28%). A total of 259 (33.1%) participants were hesitant to receive the vaccine. Out of 782, half of the participants, 386 (50%), believed the COVID vaccine will prevent the infection. CONCLUSION: The government must implement appropriate culturally accepted interventional vaccination educational campaigns to remove the beliefs, worries regarding the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, to increase vaccine acceptance rates. Dove 2021-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8627889/ /pubmed/34853514 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S340431 Text en © 2021 Narapureddy et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
spellingShingle Original Research
Narapureddy, Bayapa Reddy
Muzammil, Khursheed
Alshahrani, Mohammad Yahya
Alkhathami, Ali G
Alsabaani, Abdullah
AlShahrani, Abdullah M
Dawria, Adam
Nasir, Nazim
Kalyan Viswanath Reddy, Lingala
Alam, Mohammad Mahtab
COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Beliefs and Barriers Associated with Vaccination Among the Residents of KSA
title COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Beliefs and Barriers Associated with Vaccination Among the Residents of KSA
title_full COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Beliefs and Barriers Associated with Vaccination Among the Residents of KSA
title_fullStr COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Beliefs and Barriers Associated with Vaccination Among the Residents of KSA
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Beliefs and Barriers Associated with Vaccination Among the Residents of KSA
title_short COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance: Beliefs and Barriers Associated with Vaccination Among the Residents of KSA
title_sort covid-19 vaccine acceptance: beliefs and barriers associated with vaccination among the residents of ksa
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8627889/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34853514
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S340431
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